Edinson Ceballos Bedoya

Biography

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
As Historian and Magister in History, I count on the academic formation and the professional experience to develop the following activities of investigative character and of the scope of the academy; thus, as professional activities related to social work in vulnerable communities, archival, social and historical research, among others:
- Establish relationships with other disciplines in the field of social and human sciences in their work.
- I have extensive knowledge about the development of the armed conflict in the southern region of the country.
- Projects related to the development of the Colombian armed conflict (historical memory and victims).
- Project my knowledge towards the improvement of educational quality in the field of social sciences at all levels of education.
- Participate in projects for the recovery and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural memories of different communities and localities.
- Participate in interdisciplinary research groups on historical issues and problems related to other disciplines.
- Direct, organize, coordinate, advise and catalog historical and institutional archives.
- Advise and accompany communities in the construction of their cultural memories and their local histories.
- Elaborate texts and teaching materials and historical-cultural dissemination.
- Lead historical research projects with an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Generate dissemination and knowledge transmission strategies.
From my Master's thesis in History I have extensive knowledge about the process of territorial configuration of the Amazonian piedmont. In this investigation, I will discuss how this territory is transformed from the following actors: rubber companies, settlers, church and State.
In 2016, I was the scientific leader of the Context and Memory Team of the Sixth Division of the National Army based in Florence; project that gave as final result the research document: Armed Forces and Armed Conflict in the Regions, published by the Universidad del Rosario in the year 2017. In the last three years I have been carrying out a process of gathering information and writing some texts about the armed conflict and its historical memory in the Colombian Amazon region. This subject will be worked on in my doctoral thesis.
I have been part of the Bachelor's Program in Social Sciences of the University of the Amazon since 2010. Currently I work as the coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree.
APPLIED STUDIES
Undergraduate
Historian. National University of Colombia. Medellín
Thesis. The daily life in the Colombian countryside. From 1819 to the Corographical Commission: a look from iconography and travelers.

Postgraduate
Magister in History. National University of Colombia. Medellín
Thesis of degree: Rubber companies, settlers, Church and State: territorial transformation of the Piedmont of Caqueta. 1886-1940.
Doctoral student in History. National University of Colombia-Medellín.