Department of History

Eloy Romero Blanco

  • Graduate Student

The beginning of my doctoral studies in history at the University of Pittsburgh is based on my interest in connecting micro-social history, History of the Americas, and Global History. This investigation is supported by the Fulbright Program from Spain. Previously, I obtained my MA in World History at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain), and a BA in History at Universidad de Huelva (Huelva, Spain).

My investigation examines the role that Spanish-speaking communities in New Orleans played in US expansionism during the antebellum period (1803-1861). This research seeks to illuminate the links between US expansionism and Latin American revolutionary movements against the Spanish empire over the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean prior the US Civil War. Focusing on non-state actors, the dissertation traces the social history of migrants, exiles, imperial ambassadors and revolutionaries regarding the incorporation of new territories into the US.

Advisors: Michel Gobat, Lara Putnam

FIELDS

  • Latin American History
  • Global History
  • History of social revolutions

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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

  • 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”
  • 2019  4th Annual Transnational Journalism History Conference.University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 20–21 June. “News in New Orleans?  News paper support for the Narciso López expeditions, 1850–51”
  • 2016  1st Young Historians’ Conference, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, 19–21 April.  “Entre deseos y lamentos. La independencia de Panamá a ojos de la prensa española"

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2020   Review of López Zapico, Misael Arturo e Irina Feldman, Resistiendo al imperio: nuevas aproximaciones al antiamericanismo desde el siglo XX hasta la actualidad (Madrid, Sílex Ediciones, 2019), “Anti-Americanism and empire on both sides of the Atlantic”, Revista Historia Autónoma, 17 (2020), pp. 139-142
  • 2018   Review of Pilar Cagio Vila (ed.), Donde la política no alcanza. El reto de diplomáticos, cónsules y agentes culturales en la renovación de las relaciones entre España y América, 1880-1939 (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2018), EREBEA: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 8, pp. 271–274
  • 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