Portrait of Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Boston College teaching record

Sylvia Sellers-Garcia

Professor, Director of the Lowell Humanities Series

History

Official BC profile · Curriculum vitae

Biography

Professor Sellers-García’s teaching interests include colonial Latin America, the Spanish empire, and the meetings points between history and fiction. Her current research project, built on criminal cases from the Archivo General de Centroamérica, focuses on violence and policing in colonial Guatemala. More broadly, her research examines the history of documents, the period of Bourbon reforms in the eighteenth century, and the history of empire.

Official evaluation summary

4.91 / 5

Based on 33 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

Ratings are this instructor’s response-weighted averages from Boston College’s official course evaluations, on a scale of 1 to 5.

Data freshness

Profile and evaluation data last updated 2026-10-09. See Data Sources for provenance and limitations.