Pablo Whipple

Pablo Whipple is an Associate Professor of History at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile where he teaches Latin American and Peruvian history. He has a PhD in History from the University of California Davis (2007), and was the chair of the History Department at the Universidad Católica de Chile between 2016 and 2021. He is the author of La gente decente de Lima y su resistencia al orden republicano. Jerarquías sociales, prensa y sistema judicial durante el siglo XIX (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Centro de Investigaciones Barros Arana, 2013), where he studies Peruvian elites during the nineteenth century. His current project focuses on the study of corruption within the Peruvian judicial system, paying special attention to the trajectories of judges and lawyers during the development and expansion of nineteenth century judicial bureaucracies.