Professor Capello's scholarship emphasizes transnational imaginaries and
encounters, urban history, visual culture, and the history of cartography. These currents
intersect in his first book, "City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and
Modernity in Quito" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) which posits six
chronotopes - or narrative configurations of space-time - that provided a framework for
Quito residents to navigate the challenges of a city undergoing the dislocation of
nineteenth and early twentieth-century modernization. His writings have appeared in
various journals in the United States, Europe, and Latin America including the Latin
American Research Review, City, Araucaria, and Procesos. He is currently developing two
new book projects, one investigating commemorative French and Ecuadorian cartographic
collaboration in the early twentieth century and another examining hemispheric responses
to Nelson Rockefeller’s 1969 Presidential Mission to Latin America.
EDUCATION: BA Vassar College; MA & PhD University of Texas, Austin
Capello has been teaching at Macalester since 2008.
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