González Quintero, CV, April 2024.

Nicolás A. González Quintero

nagonzalezq@usp.br
https://nicolasgonzalezquintero.weebly.com/

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022- Postdoctoral Fellow with a FAPESP fellowship, Department of History, University of
São Paulo.
2020- Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, The
2021 University of Texas at Austin.

EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D. in History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation: “Exile and Empire in the 19th Century Spanish Caribbean.” Advisors:
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Lina del Castillo.
2018 M.A. in History, The University of Texas at Austin.
2013 M.A in Cultural Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2009 B.A. in History (with honors), Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

PUBLICATIONS
Articles
2024 “Struggling Against Independence: Loyalist Exiles’ Views on Imperial Rule during and
after the Spanish American Revolutions.” Revista Almanack No. 36.
2023 “Envisioning Empire from the U.S: Exile, Constitutional Monarchism, and Ethnic
Conflict in post-independence Mexico.” The Americas. A Quarterly Review of Latin
American History 80 (4), pp. 1-32.
2019 “The Monarchical Caribbean: Tomas Wood, Exiles, and Royalist Strongholds during
the Spanish American Independence Wars.” World History Connected Vol 16. No.1,
February
2010 “El juzgado y los ladrones. Cómo se elaboró un sujeto peligroso en Santafé (1750-
1808)” Historia Crítica 42, September-December. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, pp.
158-181.
2010 ““Se evita que de vagos pasen a delincuentes” Santafé como una ciudad peligrosa
(1750- 1808)” Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura Vol. 37 No. 2. Bogotá:
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia, pp. 17-44.

Book Chapters
2012 “Nación, Constitución y familia en La Bandera Tricolor, 1826-1827” in Disfraz y pluma de
todos. Opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX. Edited by Francisco A. Ortega
Martínez and Alexander Chaparro Silva. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-
Universidad de Helsinki, pp. 231-261.
2012 “Monstruosidad y no-ciudadanía: la metáfora de la exclusión en la Nueva Granada,
1780- 1814” in Conceptos fundamentales de la cultura política de la Independencia. Edited by
Francisco A. Ortega Martínez and Yobenj Aucardo Chicangana-Bayona. Bogotá:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Universidad de Helsinki, pp. 353-380.
2010 “Representación y exclusión: sujetos y habilidades políticas en la Nueva Granada a
finales del siglo XVIII y comienzos del siglo XIX” in Las historias de un grito. Doscientos
años de ser colombianos. Exposición conmemorativa del Bicentenario 2010. Bogotá: Museo
Nacional de Colombia, pp. 243-261.
Essays
2023 “Political Experimentation in the Age of Global Revolutions.” Itinerario. Journal of
Imperial and Global Interactions. September, pp. 1-13.

Digital Publications
2015 “Ficha de descripción y análisis de publicación periódica: La Bagatela (1811-1812).”
Biblioteca Virtual Colombiana, Grupo de Opinión pública y cultura política en el siglo
XIX, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, December.
Reviews
2022 “Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico,” by
Corinna Zeltsman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021) Publishing Research
Quarterly.

Other Publications
2019 “Los olvidados,” El Tiempo, September 3.

Work in progress
Submitted “Preservando Cuba de “la manía de la independencia”: autonomía, esclavitud y
emigrados en el Caribe durante la disolución de la Monarquía Española,” in El exilio en
la independencia Hispanoamericana. Edited by Scarlett O’ Phelan and George Lomné. Lima:
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Fondo Editorial del Congreso.

Submitted “Fighting for different republican models: Bolívar and Manuel del Castillo, a dispute
beyond personal rivalries,” in Interview with the Liberator: Nine Momentous Meetings with
Simón Bolívar. Edited by Karen Racine and Gregorio Alonso. Albuquerque: University
of New Mexico Press.
Submitted Returning to Colombia. The category of émigré in the consolidation of republican
regimes during the Age of Revolutions. Itinerario.
Submitted Semantics of Refuge: The Shifting Labels of ‘Exile’, ‘Asylum’, and ‘Refugee’ during the
18th and 19th Century. Co-authored with Thomas Mareite. Itinerario.

PODCASTS (AS HOST)

2019 15 Minutes History Podcast, “Scientific, Geographic & Historiographic Inventions of
Colombia,” (interview with Lina del Castillo, University of Texas at Austin), October
2.
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
2021- Affiliated Scholar of the “Atlantic Exiles Project” led by Prof. Dr. Jan Jansen,
University of Tübingen.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Internal (The University of Texas at Austin)
2019-2020 University Continuing Fellowship, Graduate School
2017 Fellowship for Summer Dissertation Research, Department of History
2016 Professional Development Award, College of Liberal Arts
2016-2017 Fellowship for Dissertation Research, Department of History.
2015 Tinker Field Research Grant.
2015 Fellowship for Summer Pre-Dissertation Research, Department of History.
2015 Research Travel Grant, Department of History.
2014 Research Travel Grant, Department of History.
2013-Present Recruitment Fellowship, Department of History.

External
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2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for three-month residency at The

Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
2017 Casa de Velásquez, Madrid, Short-Term Fellowship for one-month residency.
2017 American Historical Association, Annual Meeting Travel Grant.
2011 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) and The South-South
Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS)
Travel Grant.
2009 Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Travel Grant.
Internal (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
2010-2013 Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of History, Instructor

2023 “Migration and Exile in Latin America.” Summer.

The University of Texas at Austin, Departament of History, Instructor

2021 “Migration and Exile in Latin America.” Spring.

The University of Texas at Austin, Department of History, Teaching Assistant

2019 “The United States since 1865.” Professor Jeremi Suri. Summer.
2019 “The United States, 1492-1865.” Professor Robert Olwell, Spring.
2018 “History of the Black Power Movement.” Professor Leonard Moore, Fall.
2018 “The United States since 1865.” Professor Kazushi Minami, Summer.
2018 “The United States, 1492-1865.” Professor Steve Mintz, Spring.
2016 The United States since 1865.” Professor Nicholas Roland, Summer.
2016 “Cuban Revolution and the U.S”. Professor Jonathan Brown, Spring.
2015 “The United States, 1492-1865.” Professor Neil Kamil, Fall.
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2015 “The United States since 1865.” Professor Jeremi Suri, Spring.
2014 “The United States, 1492-1865.” Professor Neil Kamil, Fall
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Anthropology
2010 “Theoretical Foundation I.” Professor Marta Zambrano, Spring.

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS

2024 “Exile and Slavery after the Spanish American Revolutions.” 54th Annual
Conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, February.
2023 “Dealing with family separation during the Spanish American Revolutions.”
Colloque de cloture du Project FAMEXIL, Exils et separations familiales au XIX
siècle. Paris, France, December.
2023 “Batallando en contra de la “sangre” rebelde americana: Exiliados y la teorización de
un nuevo imperio en el Caribe.” 6° Congresso de História Intelectual da América
Latina. São Paulo, Brazil, July.
2022 “Os múltiplos exílios de Tiburcio Campe: a radicalização da República mexicana,
jornalismo no exílio e o fracasso do projeto imperial liberal na América Espanhola.”
Congresso Internacional Independências do Brasil. São Paulo, Brazil, August.
2022 “Returning to Colombia. The category of émigré in the consolidation of republican
regimes during the Age of Revolutions.” Who is a Refugee? Concepts of Exile,
Refuge, and Asylum, c. 1750-1850. Essen, Germany, June-July.
2021 “Belonging or not to the Nation”: Loyalist Refugees in the Caribbean during the
Spanish American Revolutions.” Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th – 21st
Centuries. First Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies; Essen,
Germany, October.
2021 “Emulating and Fighting the United States: Pro-monarchical Reflections on U.S.
Republicanism during the mid-19th Century,” 2021 Society for Historians of the
Early American Republic (SHEAR) Conference; Online, July.
2019 “‘Horror a toda innovación y trastorno de orden establecido’: Emigrados y la
expansión de la guerra en las Antillas.” Seminario Internacional Paz y Guerra en
tiempos de independencia; Bogotá, Colombia, August.
2017 “A Royalist Caribbean: exiles, information, and loyalist resistance in the Antilles.”
2017 Atlantic Trajectories Conference at Brown University; Providence, Rhode
Island, September.
2017 ““Victims of Loyalty”: Spanish-American Loyalist Exiles in Cuba in the 1820s”;
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2017 AHA Annual Meeting; Denver, Colorado, January.

2011 “Nature, revolution and Empire. Reflections on the use of natural metaphors in
Latin America at the end of 18th Century and Independence Wars”; 16th
International Cultural Studies Workshop on Empire, Nation, Cosmopolitanism; Centre
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC); Jaipur, India, January.
2010 “La no-ciudadanía y la españolidad: la ambivalencia entre familiares y enemigos a
través de la raza en el Diario Político de Santafé de Bogotá”; XXXVIII IILI
(Institituto Iberoamericano de Literatura Iberoamericana); Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, June.
2010 “Entre ociosos y españoles: la no-ciudadanía en la Nueva Granada en el período de
la Independencia”; XV Congreso Colombiano de Historia; Bogotá, Colombia, July.
“Monstrosity and non-citizenship in Latin America, 1780-1830”; Brown
2009 International Advanced Research Institute (Critical Traditions from the Global
South); Brown University, Providence, RI, June.

INVITED TALKS
2023 “Struggling Against Independence: Loyalist Exiles’ Views on Imperial Rule after the
Spanish American Revolutions,” Modern History Research Seminar, University of
Tübingen, June 12.
2022 “Exile and Empire in the 19th Century Spanish Caribbean,” guest speaker for Jimena
Perry’s class, Public History, Iona College, New York, February 25.
2021 “Exilio e imperio en el Caribe español en el siglo XIX,” guest speaker for Gabriela
Pellegrino Soares’ class, História da América Independente, Universidade de São Paulo,
São Paulo, Brazil, April 26-27.
2020 “Exilo e imperio en el Caribe español en el siglo XIX.” Webinaries
Conneccaribbean. Atelier d’Etudes Transnationales, Organized by Connected
Worlds: The Caribbean, Origin of the Modern World, November 6.

CAMPUS TALKS
2021 “Emulating and Fighting the Continental Republics: The Spanish American and the
U.S. Republics as Political Examples in the Mid-19th Century.” Institute of Historical
Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, January.
2019 “Envisioning the Empire From Exile: Pro-royalists’ Conceptions on Imperial Rule
and Antirepublicanism.” Slavery, Trade, Law, and Empires in the Early Modern
Atlantic, The University of Texas at Austin, April.
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2018 “The Agents of the Monarchy: Exiles, the Defense of Slavery, and Royalist
Resistance, 1820-1830.” Institute of Historical Studies at The University of Texas at
Austin, April.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Peer Reviewer:
Journal of Social History
Publishing Research Quarterly
Historia Caribe
Trashumante – Revista Americana de Historia Social
Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura
Humanidades – Revista de la Universidad de Montevideo
Historia y Sociedad
Manuscript Evaluator:
Otto de Greiff National Competition for Best Undergraduate Thesis, Universidad Nacional de
Colombia.

EDITORIAL WORK
Proofreading and translation corrections for Lina del Castillo, La invención republicana del legado colonial.
Ciencia, historia y geografía de la vanguardia política colombiana en el siglo XIX. (Bogotá: Universidad
de los Andes; Banco de la República, 2018).
English to Spanish Translation for three chapters in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Profetas e Imperios
(forthcoming).
Editorial assistant for Trauma, cultura e historia: reflexiones interdisciplinarias para el nuevo milenio edited by
Francisco Ortega (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia; CES, 2011).

LANGUAGES
Spanish (native).
English (fluent).
Portuguese (advanced).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos do Oitocentos.
Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
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REFERENCES

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Seth Garfield

Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of
History
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712
512-475-7694
canizares-esguerra@austin.utexas.edu
Professor
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
104 Inner Campus Drive
Austin, TX 78712
512-475-7269
sgarfield@austin.utexas.edu

Lina del Castillo Jan C. Jansen

Associate Professor Professor Doctor
Department of History Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin University of Tübingen
104 Inner Campus Drive Wilhelmstrabe 36
Austin, TX 78712 Tübingen, 72074
512-475-7258 07071-29-78504
delcastillo@austin.utexas.edu jan.jansen@uni-tuenbingen

Rafael de Bivar Marquese

Professor
Department of History
University of São Paulo
Avenida Professor Lineu Prestes, 338
São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-000
11-3091-0308
marquese@usp.br