Jean-Paul Zuñiga is director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), at the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH). A historian specializing in Spanish-American societies of the Modern Age, his work covers topics such as urban history, work and social dynamics in colonial cities, as well as the construction of urban spaces in the Iberian world. He currently coordinates the project Topographie de l’urbanisme impérial hispanique au XVIIIe siècle (TopUrbi), which maps the urban spaces of the Spanish empire in the 18th century, producing a geo-referenced atlas and a toponymic database of the Americas, with attention to the links between colonial territories and autonomous indigenous spaces.