Lía Quarleri holds a PhD in Anthropological Sciences, specialising in Ethnohistory and Historical Anthropology and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. From 1998 to 2021, she was a professor in the Department of Anthropological Sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires, and, from 2009 to 2024, in the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EIDAES) of the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). 
Since 2005, Prof. Dr. Quarleri has been a permanent full-time researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Argentina). Her research has focused on the connections between social history and anthropology, including topics related to borders, Indigenous peoples, heritage, territory and conflicts, travellers, religious corporations, gender, justice, emotions, the body, moralities, and violence in Ibero-America. Regarding these themes, her book, titled “Rebelión y guerra en las fronteras del Plata. Guaraníes, Jesuitas e Imperios coloniales”, published in 2009 by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Buenos Aires, is especially remarkable.
Currently, Prof. Dr. Quarleri is engaged in the analysis of judicial sources and different notions of justice, body politics, gender, and violence from a comparative perspective. She led the collective research project “Cuerpos marcados, cuerpos productivos: clasificaciones, transformaciones y resistencias, Río de la Plata, siglos XVIII y XIX” (FONCY 1409/2019-2023), funded by the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion. The following articles are highlighted among her most recent indexed publications:
"Abordaje comparado de la violencia homicida hacia mujeres indígenas guaraníes. Las causas, los imputados y los alegatos (1772-1805)".  Revista Historia y Justicia 21 (2024); 
"Registros emocionales y moralidades de género. Los juicios por “malos tratos” desde una perspectiva comparada (Virreinato del Río de la Plata)". Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais 14/29 (2022); 
"Violación, justicia y género. Un enfoque multidimensional de una violencia histórica (La Matanza, Buenos Aires, siglo XVIII)". Revista de Historia Social y de las Mentalidades 25/1 (2021); 
"Castigos, fugas y resistencias femeninas en el Río de la Plata colonial. Mujeres indígenas y españolas en historias conectadas". Descentrada. Revista de Feminismos y Género 3/ 2. (2019), and
"Castigos físicos y control de los cuerpos. Mujeres guaraníes, trabajo y poder colonial". Temas Americanistas 40 (2018).