The ‘Iberian World in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’ reading group brings together scholars who study the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific during the period of reform, revolution, and independence that spanned from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The group is interested in the intersection of the political, social, and economic dimensions of the processes that rearranged imperial relations and led to both the independence of new countries and to the organisation of new forms of metropolitan rule. From a perspective that combines the attention to global connections with the comparison of the heterogeneous regions that made up the global Iberian world, the group aims at reassessing the changes and continuities of this crucial period of social transformation.
Convenor
Juan I. Neves-Sarriegui
Juan Neves-Sarriegui is DPhil Candidate in History at the University of Oxford. His thesis project ‘Revolution in the Rio de la Plata: Political Culture and Periodical Press, c. 1780-1830’ explores the changes in political life and print culture brought about by the independence movement in present-day Argentina and Uruguay. He has been the ‘Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley’ scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford (2018-2022) and a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) doctoral visiting student at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Free University of Berlin (2022). Currently, he is the Project Administrator and Member of the Steering Committee of the AHRC Research Network ‘Reframing the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’. He has co-edited a special virtual issue of Past & Present and published in the collective volume The Hispanic-Anglosphere: an Introduction (2021) edited by Graciela Iglesias-Rogers.
Ruth de Llobet
Ruth de Llobet is currently a clinical associate professor in the Writing Program at NYUSH, Shanghai, China. She holds a PhD in Southeast Asian History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at KITLV, Leiden, the Netherlands, a FASS Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. Previously, she taught at the National University of Singapore, as well as at the University Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include Southeast Asian history; the political and constitutional history of the Philippines; Asian interconnections, networks, and colonial elites; and the age of revolution in an Asian and global context.
On those subjects, she has published several articles, including: “El poeta, el regidor y la amante: Manila y la emergencia de una identidad criolla filipina” (2009), “Chinese Mestizo and Native’s Disputes in Manila and the 1812 Constitution: Old Privileges and New Political Realities, 1813-1815” (2014); “Luis Rodríguez Varela: Literatura panfletaria criollista en los albores del liberalismo en Filipinas, 1790-1824” (2018) as well as “Spanish Filipinos in Spain’s Constitutional Assembly (1810-1814): Trade and Politics in a Hispanic Border in Southeast Asia” (Forthcoming 2024). She is one of the co-authors of the book Los Roxas. Filipinas en el siglo XIX a través de una familia hispano-filipina (2020) and she is currently working on two manuscripts. One manuscript is a critical edition of one of Francisco Leandro de Viana’s documents, which was the blueprint for implementing the Bourbon Reforms in the Philippines, and the other is a manuscript on the implementation of the 1812 Constitution in the Philippines.
Marília Moreira
Marília Arantes Silva Moreira has researched
history and international relations through a maritime lens since undertaking
as an undergraduate the Greenwich Maritime Institute Summer School (2005), with
the King’s College War Studies department, which influenced her thesis on the
“British presence in the formation of the Brazilian Navy”, for which she
received a prize in 2008. Her Masters at the University of São Paulo (USP)
adjoined postcolonial studies to her perspectives. A doctoral student at the
University of London (SAS) – still affiliated with USP and, more recently, to
the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris – she
investigates the role of Antoine René Larcher in the Bahian Conspiracy (1798),
a republican plot against the Portuguese during his visit to Salvador in 1796.
Juan Jose Moreno
Juan Jose Rivas Moreno is currently the Economic History Society Power Fellow 2023/2024, affiliated with UCL and the Institute of Historical Research. Juan Jose obtained his PhD in Economic History from LSE in 2023, with a thesis focused on the financing of the trans-Pacific trade between America and Asia during the long Eighteenth century. Juan Jose is a historian of Early Modern trade and finance in the Spanish empire, with an interest in institutional history. He was the beneficiary of an ESRC-LSE Doctoral Training Partnership, as well as a short-term fellowship at the Newberry Library of Chicago.
José Murillo
José Vicente Gómez Murillo is a historian of Central America with a focus on intellectual history. He has been history lecturer at the Universidad de Costa Rica and researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de América Central, of the same university. His research interests include the processes of independence and nation-building in Central America from the perspective of the history of political languages, the history of knowledge and the history of landscape. Currently he is a doctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Global Intellectual History, Freie Universität Berlin. His dissertation explores the role of the volcanic landscape in the visions of modernity of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth Central Americans.
Ángela Pérez-Villa
Ángela Pérez-Villa (MA, PhD University of Michigan) is an Assistant Professor of History at Western Michigan University. Her research and teaching focus on the legal, social, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia during its transit from colony to independent republic. Currently, she’s an Academic Visitor at the Latin American Centre and Associate Member of Exeter College at the University of Oxford where she’s writing her first book manuscript about daily life and legal practice during Colombia’s Wars of Independence in the early 19th century. The manuscript examines how ordinary people and judicial institutions adapted to an uncertain political landscape and reacted to changing legal practices—on the ground and on paper—that shaped local authority and the regulation of everyday life specifically in war-torn Popayán. Her work has been published in English and in Spanish in the Journal of Social History, Historia y Justicia, and others.
