Ana María Silva Campo is a historian of race, gender, religion, and the law in colonial Latin America. Her current research explores the relationship between witchcraft trials and wealth distribution along gender and racialized lines in Cartagena de Indias, a port for the trade in African captives, during the seventeenth century. Professor Silva Campo grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds B.A.s from Universidad de Los Andes and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.