Paths of Cuban Freedom: dissident voices in the age of US expansionism
My dissertation explores the links between Cuban anticolonial movements and US expansionism in the Caribbean during the 1850s. It examines Cuban dissident actions against Spanish colonialism both on the island and abroad. By tracing the actions of Cuban rebels, emigrants, and refugees in the Americas and Europe, the dissertation rethinks the foundation of Cuban independent movement in the Caribbean. It will center on the tensions among the Creole population regarding the continuity of slavery, the racial and political relations between white and Black people, and the political organization that the island might achieve after Spanish dominion ends.
Committee: Dr. Michel Gobat (Advisor), Dr. Lara Putnam (Advisor), Dr. Reid Andrews, Dr. Ada Ferrer
FIELDS
- Latin American History
- World History
- Transimperial History
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Pittsburgh
- Summer 2024 World History
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- 2019-20 Introduction to History, BA in Humanities
- 2019-20 Contemporary History II, BA in Humanities
Universitat de Barcelona
- 2019-20 History of Colonial America, Study Abroad Program, Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA)
PRESENTATIONS
- 2024 - World History Association. “Rey Journey and the Transimperial Fighting for Cuba Across Empires.” San Francisco State University
- 2023 - Historic New Orleans Collection. “Path of Freedom: New Orleans and Cuba in the Age of Revolutions.”
- University of Pittsburgh. “A Roundtable: Navigating Colonial and Imperial Archives in Transimperial History”
- 2020 - History workshop. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, June 18th. “Between empires and populations. New Orleans and American expansionism, 1803-1861”
- 2019 - 50th Conference of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS). Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 10–13 July. “The Cuban case from New Orleans: El Pelayo newspaper, 1851”
- 4th Annual Transnational Journalism History Conference. University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 20–21 June. “News in New Orleans? Newspaper support for the Narciso López expeditions, 1850–51”
- World History Center Fellowship (2024)
- Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship (2023-24)
- Diane Woest Fellowship, Historic New Orleans Collection (2022-23)
- Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2022-23)
- Fulbright PhD Scholarship (2020-22)
2024: Romero, Eloy; Valenciaga, Carlos. “De Nueva Orleans a La Habana. La correspondencia del consulado español en la Biblioteca Nacional Jose Martí.” Revista Biblioteca Nacional Jose Martí (accepted for publication)
2023: Shen, Vicky; Dasgupta, Arko; Romero Blanco, Eloy. “Experiencing the Transimperial While Researching it. Three International Student’s Journeys”, Perspectives on History, November 2023, Vol.61 (8), pp.12-14
2016: “La búsqueda del resurgir español tras el fin de su imperio”, Pensar Historia: Revista de Estudiantes de Historia Universidad de Antioquia, 6, pp. 60–69
2016: “Entre deseos y lamentos. La Independencia de Panamá a ojos de la prensa española”, in Actas I Congreso de Jóvenes Historiadores, ed. by Sara Núñez de Prado Clavell et al. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2016, pp. 577–596
