Ana María del Carmen Ribeiro Gutiérrez (born 22 October 1955), known as Ana Ribeiro, is a Uruguayan historian, writer, and professor. Her works are based on essays and novels that relate historical events of the country.
Contents
Biography
Ana Ribeiro was born in Montevideo on 22 October 1955. In 1981 she obtained the title of graduate in historical sciences, with specialization in universal history, from the School of Humanities and Sciences of the University of the Republic. In 2008, she earned her diploma of advanced studies (DEA) in the doctorate of "Foundations of Historical Research" at the University of Salamanca. Her thesis, on royalist resistance on the Asunción-Montevideo axis during the wars of independence, first published in 2013 with the title Los Muy Fieles. Leales a la corona en el proceso revolucionario rioplatense. Montevideo-Asunción 1810–1820, won the Premio Extraordinario from the University of Salamanca for best thesis of the year.
Ribeiro has been teaching since 1988, mostly at the Catholic University of Uruguay. At that school she has taught the courses "Historiographic Currents", "National Historiographic Workshop" (of which she is also director), "20th Century Historiography", "Main Currents of Thought in the West", "Theories of Communication IV", and "Social Theory III", which she has been in charge of since 2007.
She also worked at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas from 1992 to 2004, teaching "History of Historiography" and "Theory and Methodology of History". During 1999 and 2000 she taught the course "National Historiography", part of the postgraduate program in historical research at CLAEH.