Natalia Sobrevilla Perea is a Professor of Latin American History at the University of Kent. She obtained her PhD at the University of London, has been a visiting fellow at Yale University, the John Carter Brown Library and the Freire Universität in Berlin. She has held grants from the British Academy, the British Library, the Leverhulme Trust and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2011, Cambridge University Press published her book The Caudillo of the Andes Andrés de Santa Cruz and in 2015, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos published it in Spanish. She is the co-editor of The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World, The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 that came out with Alabama University Press in 2015. Between 2015 and 2018 she led an International Network of scholars researching on the idea of nation and the wars of independence funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her book Los Incios de la República Peruana. Viendo más allá de la «Cueva de los bandoleros» was published by Universidad Católica in Perú in 2019 and her book Independencia. A 200 años de lucha por la libertad comes out with Penguin Random House in 2021. She has published extensively on the creation of the state in Peru, focusing on elections, constitutions and the importance of the armed forces. She is currently finalizing a book on the armed forces and the creation of the Peruvian State in the nineteenth century. Natalia has produced short films and documentaries on the wars of independence in South America and the early years of the republic in Peru, see https://www.nataliasobrevillaperea.org/