Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy

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Scarlett Rebeca O'Phelan Godoy (born April 27, 1951, in Lima) is a Peruvian historian and university professor. Her research focuses on Peru's path to independence from the 18th century to the early 1800s, and she also teaches about the 19th and 20th centuries. She has written about immigration in Peru, including Chinese, Japanese, Jewish, Arab, German, and Italian communities.

In 2008–2009 she held the Simón Bolívar Chair in Latin American Studies. She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), earning degrees in humanities with a history focus, and wrote a thesis on peasant uprisings in the north of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Her PhD, completed in 1982, was on rebellions in eighteenth‑century Peru and Upper Peru; it was later published as Un siglo de rebeliones anticoloniales. Peru and Bolivia 1700–1783 (1988).

Her career includes teaching at PUCP, including leadership roles, and visiting and assistant professorships at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. She has held fellowships from Ford Foundation, the British Academy, Alexander von Humboldt, Guggenheim, and others. She is a member of Peru's National Academy of History and AHILA, and she has served as editorial advisor for the German Jahrbuch für Geschichte. She has authored several books and many articles.