The ‘Iberian World in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850’ research group is currently working on a multi-authored publication that brings together scholars who study the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the Atlantic and the Indian and Pacific oceans 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 Assistant Professor at Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford. Before arriving in Barcelona, Juan completed his PhD in History at the University of Oxford where he also served as Fulford Junior Research Fellow, in Somerville College, and as Postdoctoral Researcher in the project ‘Latin America and the Global History of Democracy, 1810-1930’. His first book manuscript is entitled Revolution in the Rio de la Plata: Political Culture and Periodical Press, c. 1780-1830. His research has appeared in Past & Present, The Journal of World History, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, and in edited volumes. Juan’s work has been supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Oxford History Faculty, the Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley scholarship (Wolfson College Oxford), the Norman Fiering Fellowship (John Carter Brown Library), the German Academic Exchange Service (Free University of Berlin), and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Juan is currently working on a monograph on the history of communications in 19th-century Latin America and coordinating a special issue on the global Iberian world in the age of revolutions (1750-1850). He serves as editorial board member of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies.
Contact: juan.nevessarriegui@history.ox.ac.uk; juanignacio.neves@salle.url.edu
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. Marília completed her PhD at the University of London (SAS) and is currently affiliated with USP and 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 José Rivas Moreno is currently a lecturer of Economic History at CUNEF University and was previously the Economic History Society Power Fellow 2023/2024 affiliated with UCL and the Institute of Historical Research. Juan José 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 José 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, and a fellowship at the European University Institute.
Contact: juanjose.rivas@cunef.edu
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 focuses on the legal, social, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia during its transit from colony to independent republic. She’s preparing to publish her first book manuscript about daily life, emotions, 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 most recently in the multi-authored volume The Social History of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, edited by Timo Schaefer.
André Jockyman Roithmann
André is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London specialising in Brazil and the history of political thought. His current project, The Other American Empire: Brazil, 1817-1897, seeks to answer one of the most enduring questions of Latin American history: why did Brazil remain unified after independence while Spanish America did not? This project combines comparative, imperial, and intellectual history to understand Brazil alongside other nineteenth-century ‘imperial states’, such as Mexico and the United States. Previously, André taught at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, and the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil. His first book, Republicanism and the State between Brazil and the River Plate: Rio Grande do Sul, 1808-1845, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. It examines the 1836-1845 Rio Grandense Republic, a separatist attempt in southern Brazil, and the transnational revolutionary networks underpinning it. André is an Associate Member of the Royal Historical Society.
Contact: a.j.roithmann@qmul.ac.uk