Doménica Noboa Ramos M.A.

Doménica Noboa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Historical and Cultural Tourism from the Universidad Central del Ecuador (UCE) (2018). In 2025, she obtained a Master’s degree in World Heritage Studies from the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, with a master’s thesis entitled “World Natural Heritage Discourse in the Dynamics of Local Governance: An Empirical Approach to the Galápagos Paradox.”

From 2014 to 2016, she completed internships at the María Augusta Urrutia Museum and the Centro Cultural Metropolitano in Quito’s historic center. Between 2016 and 2020, she worked as a student research assistant at UCE and contributed to several projects, including urban marketing in collaboration with the Agencia Metropolitana de Gestión de Destinos Quito Turismo (2016), a scholarly survey of the preservation status of local monuments in Zuleta (2016–2017), and historical research on colonial societies in Latin America with a focus on colonial higher education systems (2020).

Since March 2026, Doménica Noboa has been a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) within the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1482 “Human Differentiation.” In the CRC subproject “Religion and Ethnicity: Transatlantic Mobility and Human Differentiation in Colonial Hispanoamerica,” she is working on a case study of Cartagena de Indias.

• Identity, belonging, and collective memory

• Ethnicity and social inequality in early modern Hispanoamerica

• The history of Spain and Latin America

• Discourses on natural and cultural heritage