Latin America in the global networks

Félix-Fernando Muñoz

Félix-Fernando Muñoz (Coordinator of this CIVIS course) is Associate Professor of Economics and Vice Dean of Research and Knowledge Transfer at the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is a member of the IBCgroup, and his research interests include the role of institutions in economic development.

Nadia Fernández de Pinedo

Nadia Fernández de Pinedo is Associate Professor of Economic History. She is a member of the IBCgroup in charge of the collaboration agreement between the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (OEPM) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2000-2020). Her work covers a wide range of consumption and distribution networks including 18^th and 19^th-century Spanish and Atlantic history. She participates in various cross-disciplinary projects such as the GECEM project.

Mirian Galante

Mirian Galante is Senior Lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her current research deals with analysing legal and judicial categories and practices, jurisdictional conflicts, actors in/of local justice and re-categorisation of the indigenous in Latin America (1770-1840), with special attention to New Spain. Since 2012, she has been teaching on the History of Latin America and on Indigenous Peoples in Globalisation Processes. She participates in cross-disciplinary national and international projects, she is coordinating the Research Group on Interdisciplinary Studies on Latin America (GEISAL) and is the Secretary of the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA).

Irini Apostolou

Irini Apostolou is Associate Professor of French Cultural History, Department of French Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied at Paris-Sorbonne University, where she graduated with a DEA and a PhD in 2003. Her research areas include writing and iconography, Orientalism, Antiquarianism, History of French Art, Iconography, and French Cultural History. Irini has mostly worked on the 18^th and 19^th century in France. Her research examines the relationship between West and East and focuses on the French Travellers perception of the East. Irini was Associate Research Director, Guest Researcher, Fondation Maison Des Sciences de l’HOMME Paris (April, May-June 2019). Currently, she is NKUA scientific coordinator for the program E-Belong: Sense of Belonging in Online Learning Environments Erasmus +Programme Key Action 226.

Laura Mariottini

Laura Mariottini is Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Linguistics at Sapienza Università di Roma. Her research interests are Diasporic linguistic landscapes, Latin American migrations’ stories, analysis of public discourses on Latin American migrants, linguistic and cultural mediation.

Gilberto Cristian Aranda

Gilberto Cristian Aranda is Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile and a researcher at the University of Alcalá’s Institute of University Studies of Latin American Studies. He holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile, 3 Master’s degrees, in Latin American Social and Political Studies from the Alberto Hurtado Jesuit University, in International Studies from the University of Chile, and in Human Rights at the International University of Andalusia, and has a bachelor’s degree in History and Journalism from the University of Chile. Gilberto’s research topics are Latin American populism, regional integration, regional migration, religion and politics.

Angel Rodríguez García-Brazales

Angel Rodríguez García-Brazales is PhD in Economics and Business Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM- with honours and a post-doctoral fellow at George Mason University. He has been Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Seconded National Expert between 2016 and 2018 in the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. He is also Director of the Escuela de Inteligencia Económica (School of Economic Intelligence) at UAM.

Dimitros Drosos

Dimitros Drosos is Professor of Spanish language and literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Dorotea López Giral

Dorotea López Giral is Deputy Director of the Instituto de Estudios Intenacionales de la Universidad de Chile, MA in Economics by the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Master of Philosophy in Economics, University of Cambridge and PhD in Social Science (Universidad de Chile).

Gemma Gordo

Gemma Gordo is a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with honours. Her research focuses on the history of Ibero-American philosophy and on the reconstruction of intellectual networks between Spain and Ibero-America from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. She has made several stays in Mexico, at the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her current research is on emigration and literature.

Giovanni Ruocco

Giovanni Ruocco is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought of Development at Sapienza Università di Roma. His research interests are the thought of Montaigne, La Mothe le Vayer, Naudé, Rousseau, Sieyès, Moscow. From a historiographical perspective, he has deepened the concepts of modern State, Baroque, People, Biopolitics, Totalitarianism, Transition and Preventive War.

Laura Beck

Laura Beck is Associate Professor of History of Law, Faculty of Law, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests encompass the history of legal education, history of constitutionalism, early modern and 19th-century natural law, book and authorship studies at their intersection with the history of law.

Marco Cilento

Marco Cilento is Senior Lecturer of Political Sciences and Academic coordinator of Interfaculty Educational Area “Sciences of Development Cooperation” at Sapienza Università di Roma. His research interests are Processes of Democratization, Comparative Political Systems, Post-Soviet Political Systems and Local Government.

María José Roa

María José Roa is PhD in Economics by UAM. She has been researcher in Ohio State University (USA), CIDE (Mexico) and Investigator Principal in CEMLA (Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos). Currently, she is an independent consultant specialising in household finance, financial education and financial inclusion, gender gaps, behavioural finance, natural and field experiments, and economic development. María José coordinates different research and consulting projects on these topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also a member of the Research Committee of the OECD/INFE.

Stefano Tedeschi

Stefano Tedeschi is Associate Professor of Hispano-American Languages and Literature at Sapienza Università di Roma. His research interests are Intercultural Studies, Pre-Hispanic mythology in Latin American literature, Linguistic and Cultural Mediation.