Latin America in the Global Networks

Félix-Fernando Muñoz

Félix-Fernando Muñoz (Coordinator of this CIVIS course) is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Innovation at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He is a member of the IBCgroup- and his research interests include the role of institutions in economic development, evolutionary economics and complexity.

Nadia Fernández de Pinedo

Nadia Fernández de Pinedo is Associate Professor of Economic History. Nadia 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 18th and 19th-century Spanish and Atlantic history.

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. She teaches History of Latin America and Indigenous Peoples in Globalisation Processes. She participates in cross-disciplinary national and international projects, coordinates the Research Group on Interdisciplinary Studies on Latin America (GEISAL) and is the Secretary of the Association de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA).

lrini 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 18th and 19th century in France. Irini was Associate Research Director, Guest Researcher, Fondation Maison Des Sciences de l’Homme Paris (April, May, June 2019). Currently, she is scientific coordinator in National Kapodistrian University of Athens 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 Alcala'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.

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 Mathe le Vayer, Naude, Rousseau, Sieyes, Moscow. From a historiographical perspective, he has deepened the concepts of modern State, Baroque, People, Biopolitics, Totalitarianism, Transition and Preventive War.

David Pretel

David Pretel is Lecturer in Economic History at Autonomous University of Madrid. He has been visiting scholar at the universities of Harvard, Cambridge, UCLA, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. David has held teaching and research positions at the European University Institute, El Colegio de México, and Pompeu Fabra University. He has edited The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy, 1650–1914 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies series), Technology and Globalization: Networks of Experts in World History (Palgrave) and The Colours of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas (Bloomsbury).

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

Maria Jose Roa is PhD in Economics by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has been researcher in Ohio State University (USA), CIDE (Mexico) and Director of Research in CEMLA (Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos). Currently, she is an independent consultant specialised in household finance, financial education and financial inclusion, gender gaps, behavioural finance, natural and field experiments, and economic development. Maria Jose 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.

Jorge Turmo Arnal

Jorge Turmo Arnal is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economic Analysis (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and PhD in Economics. He also holds a degree in Geography and History by Universidad de Zaragoza. Jorge is specialist in Macroeconomics and collaborates with the Escuela de Inteligencia Económica (School of Economic Intelligence) at UAM.

Manuel Burón

Manuel Burón is Lecturer of American History at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Manuel has been visiting scholar at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina); City University of New York (CUNY, Nueva York, USA); Victoria University of Wellington (New Zeland), and Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH, México D.F.). He is a specialist in heritage and museums, indigenous communities, nation-building and imaginaries, in areas as diverse as Latin America and Oceania.