Work experience

Site organizer for the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Annual Conference (ASPHS), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (June-July 2019).

Research fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (FPI 2012-2016).

Co-editor of Entremons: UPF Journal of World History (www.entremons.org) (2010-2015).

Teaching quality unit (USQUID) at the Humanities Department of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009-2012).

Writer for civil servant exams in the areas of Geography and History, Spain (2009-2011).

Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, research assistant (July-August 2009).

Teaching experience

Adjunct professor: Contemporary History, Fundamentals of History, History of International Relations, and Seminar VIII: Development of Projects, Degree International Relations, Degree Global Communication Management, and Master’s degree in Advanced Studies in International Affairs. Universitat Ramon Llull, September 2018-currently.

Adjunct professor: Historia política y social and Història política i social, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, February 2018-currently.

Adjunct professor: El discurs històric, Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC), January 2021-currently.

Adjunct professor: Història del Món Actual, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, September 2017-January 2018.

Adjunct professor: Contemporary History of Spain, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and IONA College (New York), September-October 2017.

Adjunct professor: Globalization and Intercultural Dialogue, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, January-May 2017.

Visiting professor: Urban Culture, by Prof. Raquel Crisóstimo, CIEE Barcelona Study Center, January-April 2017.

Visiting professor: Past and present in Barcelona, by Prof. Raquel Crisóstomo, CIEE Barcelona Study Center, December 2015; March-December, 2016.

Teaching Assistant: Introduction to History, by profs. Stephen Jacobson, Marició Janué, and Alexander Coello, Degree on Humanities, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, September-December 2014.

Visiting professor: Spanish Culture and Civilization, by Prof. Núria Rodríguez, Study Abroad Program, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, November 2013 and March 2014.

Visiting professor: Nation and Nationalisms, by Prof. Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Masters in World History, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, November 2013.

Teaching Assistant: History of the Twentieth Century, by Prof. Josep Pich, Degree on Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011-2012 and 2012-2013.

Conferences and seminars

Latin American Studies Association (LASA), online, May 13-16, 2020. Paper entitled: “Resistance and emancipation in the Greater Caribbean: Women’s movements against Huey Long, Gerardo Machado, and Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1925-1942)”.

Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, April 12-14, 2018. Paper entitled: “Greater Caribbean Caudillo: A New Look Upon the Kingfish of Louisiana”.

26th World History Association Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 22-24, 2017. Paper entitled: “Greater Caribbean Strongmen: Leadership Styles in Louisiana and Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s”.

Jornadas El sueño de una internacional de naciones oprimidas, 1912-1939. Secesionismo y revolución, organized by Grup de Recerca en Estats, Nacions i Sobiranies (GRENS), UPF, November 24-25, 2016. Paper entitled (together with Enric Ucelay-Da Cal): “Liga Contra el Imperialismo de 1927, los revolucionarios latinoamericanos y los catalanistas”. 

25th World History Association Annual Conference, Ghent, Belgium, July 2-5, 2016. Paper entitled: “The Plaza de la Constitución in Saint Augustine: Monuments and Global Conflict”.

Networking 2016 de especialistas en Historia Actual, organized by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, January 15-16, 2016. Paper entitled: “Politización de la historia, politización de la actualidad. El acontecimiento reciente como vehículo comparativo para analizar el pasado lejano”.

24th World History Association Annual Conference, Savannah, Georgia, June 30-July 2, 2015. Paper entitled: “The ‘revolutionary from Winnfield’ and his Share Our Wealth Program”.

Organization of and participation at Jornada de Seminario Doctoral, organized by Casa de Velázquez and Institut d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, May 24, 2015. Paper entitled: “‘The Greater Caribbean’ y la problemática de las unidades de análisis transnacionales”.

Organization of Jornadas sobre Música y Nacionalismo, organized by GRENS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, October 14-15, 2014.

23rd World History Association Annual Conference, San José, Costa Rica, July 16-18, 2014. Paper entitled: “Breaking frontiers: Louisiana and its Latin American Character”.

Populism: A Historiographic Category? Università degli studi Firenze, Florence, April 8-10, 2014. Paper entitled: “The Kingfish of Louisiana: Between US. Populism and Latin American Caudillismo”.

Organization of Port Cities in World History WHA Barcelona Symposium, organized by the World History Association, UPF, Barcelona, March 26-28, 2014. Paper entitled: “The Port of New Orleans: An Understudied Door to Latin America”. I was also member of the Program Committee and Local Affairs Committee for the symposium.

Jornades Internacionals sobre federalisme espanyol i atlàntic, organized by GRENS, Barcelona, April 9 and 10, 2013. Paper entitled (together with Gennadi Kneper): “The Founding Fathers, Proudhon i Pi: federalisme com a resposta a un món en canvi”.

Southwestern Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, March 27-30, 2013. Paper entitled: “Huey P. Long (1893‐1935) of Louisiana: Caudillismo, Populism and American Political Dynamics of the 1920s and the 1930s”.

Organization of Jornades La vertebració d'Espanya: un debat acadèmic interminable (1931-1934), GRENS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, January 22 and 23, 2013.

21st World History Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 27-30, 2012. Paper entitled (together with coeditors of Entremons): “The 'Entremons' Experience: How Grad-Student Activity Can Spur Debate, Exposure and Research of World History”.

Organization of Jornades de Recerca de l'IUHJVV: 80è aniversari de l'Estatut de Núria: el problema territorial, GRENS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, April 26 and 27, 2012.

Organization of Jornades sobre dos contemporanis enfrontats: Valentí Almirall (1841-1904) i Joaquín Costa (1846-1911), GRENS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, March 22-23, 2012. Paper entitled: “El populisme en els estudis de Carlos Serrano”.

Primera Pick Up Ideas: cómo comunicar a los estudiantes y qué herramientas utilizar en las clases. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Presentation of the online tool Vuvox. November 15, 2011.

Louisiana Studies Conference: Louisiana Fictions. Northwestern State University of Natchitoches, Louisiana. September 23-24, 2011. Paper entitled: “Huey P. Long: A Love-Hate Relationship”.

Congreso Internacional: Innovación Metodológica y Docente en Historia, Arte y Geografía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, September 7-9, 2011. Paper entitled (together with Rubén Carrillo): “2.0 para la enseñanza de las transformaciones del siglo XX”.

Grants

President’s Travel Fund. Granted by the Organization of American Historians, April 2018.

“Ayuda a la movilidad predoctoral para la realización de estancias breves en centros de I D españoles y extranjeros 2014”. Granted by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Research stay at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), June-September 2015.

“Formación de Personal Investigador” (FPI) 2012. Pre-doctoral grant by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, 2012-2016.

Research Fellowship for the Study of the Global South 2012. Granted by Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), October 2012.

Assistant at the Humanities Department (USQUID) at UPF. Granted by MEPSYD (Spanish government), January-June 2009.