Romina Zamora is a historian specialising in the urban society of the Americas during the modern centuries, its political and legal construction in local colonial spaces. She is currently an Adjunct Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She graduated in History and received her Ph.D. in Latin American History from Pablo de Olavide University of Seville and a Ph.D. in History from the National University of La Plata. She specializes in the paradigm of oeconomia, its relation to the Christian republic, the populated house in urban life, indigenous servitude, and the encomienda system in Spanish American cities from the 16th century onwards. Her current research also focuses on Hispanic oeconomic discourses, analysing debates around the encomienda and arbitrismo to understand the semantic shift of the concept of economy and the construction of the liberal legal subject in the early 19th century.
Her book, titled “Casa Poblada y Buen Gobierno. Oeconomia católica y servicio personal en San Miguel de Tucumán, siglo XVIII” studies 18th-century San Miguel de Tucumán by centring the large house and the authority of the householder. The research explores the 'casa poblada' as a key space for ideological transmission and indigenous servitude relations, where concepts of protection and discipline merged, linking the good government of the houses to the good government of the city. Women's role within the casa is a central theme in the overarching research focus, in the same way that the authority of the 'padre de familia' or indigenous servitude.   She also contributed the chapter "The domestic sphere" to the Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective, edited by Tamar Herzog and Thomas Duve (2024)