Ricardo Borrero L (B314-13DC-403F)

Curriculum Vitae

Ricardo Borrero L

Ricardo Borrero L is a Historian from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana with a Master's degree in Anthropology (Archeology Area) from the Universidad de los Andes and a doctorate from the Nautical Archeology Program (NAP) of Texas A&M University. In 2011 he obtained a scholarship to participate in the ARQUA-UNESCO International Course on Underwater Archeology that took place in Cartagena, Spain. In 2016 he obtained a Fullbright scholarship to pursue doctoral studies. In 2018 he was awarded the Society for Historical Archeology (SHA) Ed and Judy Jelks Award. He has taught History of Transatlantic Navigation and Introduction to Underwater Archeology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) in Mexico and was part of the Underwater Archeology Subdirectorate of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH-SAS) in Mexico for almost four years. He lectured in the Postgraduate degree on Underwater Cultural Heritage at the Externado University of Colombia. He has participated in research projects in maritime history and archeology in Colombia, Mexico, Spain, the Bahamas and the United States, including the excavations of the wreck of Highbourn Cay, Bahamas, recognized as one of the earliest shipwrecks in America. He served as a technical translator for the International Journal of Nautical Archeology (IJNA) and has published in peer-reviewed and indexed journals on a variety of topics related to underwater archeology and maritime history. In 2019 he obtained a research grant from the Institute of Nautical Archeology (INA). He worked for the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH), the Terra Firme Foundation and was a UNESCO Consultant and tutor in the "Curso Fundacional de la UNESCO sobre la Protección y Manejo del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático en América Latina y el Caribe".

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Ricardo Borrero L

Citation names

Borrero L., Ricardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: B314-13DC-403F
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7368-789X

Telephones

Mobile phone

(+57) 3227235744 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences
Humanities - History and Archaeology
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
German	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2016/08/18 - 2021/05/11 Concluded	Nautical Archeology Program (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in Anthropology Texas A&M University, United States "IBERIAN SHIPBUILDING AND DESIGN IN THE DAYS OF CUTTING-EDGE PROTOSCIENCE (1570-1712)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2009/08/15 - 2012/05/31 Concluded	Archaeology (Magister) Major in Anthropology Universidad de los Andes, Colombia "Procesos de formación de sitios arqueológicos sumergidos en la Bahía de Cartagena de Indias. Estudio experimental sobre degradación de materiales orgánicos empleados en la construcción naval y/o contenidos en los fletes coloniales" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2004/08/15 - 2009/06/04 Concluded	History (Bachelor) Major in History Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia "De Pointis y la representación textual de la expedición a Cartagena en 1697: tipología discursiva, ambigüedad y pragmatismo trascendental" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/05/15 - 2021/09/15	Researcher (Research)	UNESCO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Cuba

2017/07/01 - 2020/07/31	Research Assistant (Research)	Texas A&M University, United States

2016/06/01 - 2016/12/15	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Colombia

2015/01/01 - 2016/07/07	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia

2012/05/01 - 2015/10/31	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2019/06/01 - 2019/06/15	Excavaciones del Pecio de Ribadeo, Galicia, España n/a Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), United States Texas A&M University, United States
2018/06/01 - 2018/06/30	Excavación del pecio de Heighbourne Cay, Exhumas, Bahamas n/a PhD Student Fellow Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), United States Texas A&M University, United States National Geographic Society, United States
2018/06/25 - 2018/06/29	Fotogrametría de los pecios Rio de la Plata y Corsario en la Bahía de Acapulco, Guerrero, México n/a Principal investigator Texas A&M University, United States Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico	Concluded
2016/11/01 - 2016/11/15	Arqueología de un Naufragio de la Batalla de Bocachica (1741), Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher National Geographic Society, United States Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia
2014/09/09 - 2014/09/13	Registro del Naufragio Cabo San Lucas, Baja California n/a Principal investigator Diamante CSL, Mexico Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
2014/06/14 - 2014/07/07	Protecto Punta Zempoala, Chachalacas, Veracruz n/a CoPI National Geographic Society, United States Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico	Concluded
2013/05/15 - 2013/05/31	Bajo el Volcán – Vida y Ritualidad en Torno al Nevado de Toluca n/a Researcher Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico National Geographic Society, United States
2012/05/02 - 2012/06/15	Nuestra Señora del Juncal y la Flota de Nueva España 1630-1631 n/a Invited Scientist Fellow Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico Waitt Foundation, United States National Geographic Society, United States
2011/09/19 - 2011/10/28	Excavación Pecio Punta de Algas, San Pedro del Pinatar, España n/a Scientific Initiation Fellow Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática ARQUA, Spain United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, France
2010/01/15 - 2011/01/15	Procesos de formación de sitios arqueológicos sumergidos en la Bahía de Cartagena de Indias. Estudio experimental sobre degradación de materiales orgánicos empleados en la construcción naval y/o contenidos en los fletes coloniales n/a Principal investigator Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación, Colombia	Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2016/06/15 - 2016/06/30	Arqueología Preventiva: Club Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher	Concluded
2016/05/01 - 2016/05/15	Arqueologia Preventiva: Muralla de Getsemani, Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia	Concluded
2016/05/01 - 2016/05/15	Arqueología Preventiva: Necoclí, Antioquia, Colombia n/a Researcher	Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2016/03/14	Arqueología Preventiva: Claustro de San Agustín, Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia
2016/02/15 - 2016/03/02	Arqueología Preventiva: Fuerte de Pastelillo, Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia
2015/06/01 - 2015/06/30	Arqueología de un Naufragio de 1741 en el Canal de Manzanillo, Cartagena, Colombia n/a Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia
2012/02/01 - 2012/02/15	Arqueologia Preventiva: Fuertes de San Fernando y San Jose, Cartagena de Indias n/a Researcher Fundacion Terra Firme, Colombia

Other

	Designation	Funders
2014/10/23 - 2014/11/09	Proyecto Galeon de Manila, Baja California n/a Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
2013/04/02 - 2013/04/10	Arqueología del Fuerte de San Diego, Acapulco n/a Researcher Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
2013/02/15 - 2013/03/14	Arqueologia Preventiva: Tsimin Tojual, Tabasco, Mexico n/a Researcher Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico	Concluded
2012/03/15 - 2012/03/31	PROGRAMA INTEGRAL PARA LA PROTECCIÓN, CONSERVACIÓN, INVESTIGACIÓN Y DIFUSIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL SUMERGIDO DE LA PENÍNSULA DE YUCATÁN n/a Invited Scientist Fellow Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico
2007/07/01 - 2007/07/15	Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: ¿de lugar de olvido a lugar de memoria? n/a BA Student Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Antonio Jaramillo; Borrero L., Ricardo. Corresponding author: Antonio Jaramillo. "Enterrando al cuerpo. Objetos y cuerpos dividuales en las tumbas mayas del Clásico". In Memorias del encuentro internacional de investigadores de la Cultura Maya. Costumbres y prácticas funerarias en el área maya a través del tiempo, 207-215. Campeche, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, 2016. Published Borrero L., Ricardo; Estrada, Salvador. "Los procesos bio-geológicos de formación de sitios arqueológicos en lagunas de altura y las posibilidades de investigación in situ". In Bajo el Volcán – Vida y Ritualidad en Torno al Nevado de Toluca, edited by Junco, Roberto; Vigliani, Silvina. Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 2013. Published
Book review	Borrero L., Ricardo. "El pecio de la HMS Swift: ¿Una cápsula de tiempo? Aula y bastión de la Arqueología Náutica Científica en América Latina". Review of Elkin, Dolores, Cristian Murray, Ricardo Bastida, Mónica Grosso, Amaru Argüeso, Damian Vainstub, Chris Underwood, Nicolás Ciarlo, El naufragio de la HMS Swift -1770 - Arqueología Marítima en la Patagonia, Vazquez Mazzini Editores, Buenos Aires, 2011 20, 56 (2013): 277-284. http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0185-16592013000100015. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Arqueología marítima en México. Estudios interdisciplinarios en torno al patrimonio cultural sumergido, de V. Moya Sordo". 8, 1 (2012): 89-95. https://plarci.org/index.php/RAHAYL/article/view/66/133. Published
Conference abstract	Borrero L., Ricardo. "Vicepresidencia. Comisión Colombiana de Océano. 22 de octubre de 2021.". Paper presented in IV Seminario Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural Marítimo, Bogota, 2021. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Reconstruction of an Early Seventeenth Century Iberian Rigging". Paper presented in SHA 2020 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Boston, 2020. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Archaeology of seventeenth Century Iberian Shipwrecks: Assessment and Comparison of Excavated, Recorded and Published Hull Remains". Paper presented in SHA 2019 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Saint Charles, 2019. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "On Ideal and Real Ships: Shipbuilding Treatises c.1570 - 1620 C.E. and the Highbourne Cay Shipwreck". Paper presented in SHA 2018 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, New Orleans, 2018. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "The wooden history of the highwayman". Paper presented in SHA 2016 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Washington D.C., 2016. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Una historia de madera: el naufragio de la goleta Oliver J. Olson". Paper presented in Tercer Coloquio de Arqueología Histórica, Ciudad de Mexico, 2015. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Análisis de los restos de un accidente naval en Cayo Triángulos, Golfo de México". Paper presented in XXX Reunión de la Mesa Redonda de la Sociedad Mexicana de Antropología (SMA), Queretaro, 2014. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Procesos bio-geológicos de formación de contextos arqueológicos sumergidos en la Laguna del Sol – Volcán Nevado de Toluca". Paper presented in XX Coloquio Internacional de los Seminarios permanentes de la Dirección de Antropología Física, Mexico D.F., 2013. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "El arrecife Bajo Hornos, Veracruz: Una trampa deposicional de embarcaciones y vestigios culturales". Paper presented in Segundo Coloquio de Arqueología Histórica. Desenterrando fragmentos de Historia, siglos XVI al XIX., Mexico D.F., 2013. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Intentional sinking of a minor wooden vessel with cargo in the Colombian Caribbean: A study into the formation processes of submerged sites". Paper presented in SHA 2011 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Austin, 2011. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Redimir la rebeldía de las profundidades - Apuntes teórico-metodológicos para una aproximación arqueológica a la época dorada de la piratería en el Caribe". Paper presented in 13 Congreso de Antropología en Colombia. Antropología y nuevas experiencias sociales, Bogota, 2009. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "Una aproximación arqueológica a la época dorada de la piratería en el Caribe". Paper presented in V Congreso de Arqueología en Colombia, Medellin, 2008. Published Borrero L., Ricardo. "La amalgama mágico-herética de América colonial y el aporte europeo (1610-1660)". Paper presented in ANTHROPOS 2007, I Congreso Iberoamericano de Antropología, La Habana, 2007. Published
Journal article	Ricardo Borrero L.; Antonio Jaramillo Arango; Filipe Castro; Nicolás Lira; Rodrigo de Oliveira Torres. "Traditional Shipbuilding Communities: An Urgent and Neglected Research Topic in Maritime Anthropology". Journal of Maritime Archaeology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-022-09345-0. 10.1007/s11457-022-09345-0 Ricardo Borrero L.; Patricia Schwindingera; Ana Castelli; Nicolas C. Ciarlo; Rodrigo Torres; Martijn Manders; Filipe Castro; Richard Furuta. "Seeking a common ground for the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (NADL). Reflections on science, method, theory and templates". Virtual Archaeology Review (2021): https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2021.14331. 10.4995/var.2021.14331 Ricardo Borrero L.. "Archaeology of 17th-Century Iberian Shipwrecks: reassessment and comparison of excavated, recorded, and published hull remains". International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12416. 10.1111/1095-9270.12416 "Integrating digital and conventional recording techniques for the documentation and reconstruction of an 18th-Century wooden ship from Alexandria, VA". Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage 16 (2020): e00136-e00136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.daach.2020.e00136. 10.1016/j.daach.2020.e00136 "Reflexiones críticas sobre los abordajes teórico-metodológicos en la Arqueología de Buques de Guerra y Campos de Batalla Acuáticos". Vestígios - Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Histórica 12 1 (2018): 31-57. http://dx.doi.org/10.31239/vtg.v12i1.12113. 10.31239/vtg.v12i1.12113 "Recording, Publishing, and Reconstructing Wooden Shipwrecks". Journal of Maritime Archaeology 13 1 (2018): 55-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11457-017-9185-8. 10.1007/s11457-017-9185-8 "De Pointis y la representación textual de la expedición a Cartagena en 1697: tipología discursiva, ambigüedad y pragmatismo trascendental". Fronteras de la Historia 14 2 (2009): 368-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.22380/20274688.435. 10.22380/20274688.435
Online resource	CASTRO, Filipe; Bendig Charles; Gauthier-Bérubé, Marijo; Borrero L., Ricardo. Recording Early Modern Hull Remains. 2018. https://www.academia.edu/36552529/Recording_Early_Modern_Hull_Remains.
Report	Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Capulli, Massimo; Gauthier-Bérubé, Marijo; Borrero L., Ricardo. 2019. Early Modern Iberian Ships Tentative Glossary Part 2 - Timbers.. https://www.academia.edu/34517000/Early_Modern_Iberian_Ships_Tentative_Glossary_Part_2_Timbers. Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Gauthier-Bérubé, Marijo; Capulli, Massimo; Borrero L., Ricardo. 2019. Early Modern Iberian Ships. Tentative Glossary. Part 1 – Toponomy and Fittings. https://www.academia.edu/34462963/Early_Modern_Iberian_Ships_Tentative_Glossary_Part_1_Toponomy_and_Fittings. Vieira de Castro, Filipe; Gauthier-Bérubé, Marijo; Capulli, Massimo; Correia Santos, Maria João; Borrero L., Ricardo. 2018. Early Modern Iberian Ships Tentative Glossary Part 3 - Rigging. https://www.academia.edu/34517069/Early_Modern_Iberian_Ships_Tentative_Glossary_Part_3_Rigging.

Distinctions

Award

2018	Ed and Judy Jelks Travel Award 2018 Society for Historical Archaeology, United States
2009	Beca Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación, Colombia

Other distinction

2019	3 Minute Thesis Competition Finalist Texas A&M University, United States
2016	Fulbright Scholarship Fulbright Colombia, Colombia
2009	Honorific Mention Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia