Team
Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) Spain

Justo Cuño Bonito
TEAM LEADER
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Professor of American History at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain and Director of the Department of Geography, History and Philosophy and of the research institute El Colegio de América, Centro de Estudios Avanzados para América Latina at the Pablo de Olavide University. PhD in History of America from the Pablo de Olavide University and a Post-doctorate in Educational Sciences from the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. Justo is a corresponding member of the Colombian Academy of History and belongs to the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences.

Agustin Perez Coca
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Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, Basic Psychology and Public Health (UPO). His research focuses on Environmental Anthropology, particularly human-environment relations in the Mediterranean. He has also conducted fieldwork on community-based tourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon and participated in various projects on heritage, tourism, and participatory processes. His work highlights the importance of local knowledge in understanding the past and envisioning the future of Mediterranean socio-ecosystems. Author of several acclaimed publications, he was awarded the XIX Blas Infante Memorial Prize for Los Camperos. He has also scripted and advised on environmental anthropology documentaries such as Nosotros los Hombres del Corcho (2011), Quivir (2013), and Sin corcheros no hay Corchas (2018).

Angel Maria Delgado Vazquez
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Head of Learning and Research Support Services at the Library/CRAI of UPO. He provides training and support in scientific evaluation and academic publishing to researchers and journal editors, and advises evaluators and decision-making bodies on research assessment. He is also an Associate Professor in Library and Information Science at UPO, where he coordinates the Official Master’s in History and Digital Humanities. Additionally, he directs the University Expert Certificate in Research Support Services and is a member of the national accreditation system’s evaluation and monitoring commission (ANECA). He holds degrees in Humanities from UPO and in Information Science from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He also holds a Master’s in Libraries and Digital Information Services from Universidad Carlos III.

Joaquín Monge Castillero
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PhD candidate in History and Humanistic Studies at UPO. He holds degrees in Geography and History (2020), a Master’s in Latin American History: Indigenous Worlds (2021), and a Master’s in Secondary Education (Geography, History, and Philosophy, 2022). His research has been shared through academic publications and presentations at national and international conferences. He has completed research stays at prestigious institutions, including Roma Tre University (Italy), Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain), the Cultural Heritage Institute of Cape Verde, the University of Cartagena (Colombia), and the University of Lisbon (Portugal).

José Diaz Diego
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Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at UPO. He holds postgraduate degrees in Social Anthropology, Sociology, and Geography, and earned a PhD in Development Studies. He is an expert in rural studies, with field and archival research conducted in Spain, Morocco, Romania, Chile, Mexico, Bolivia, and Brazil. His recent work focuses on rural history and memory, particularly on processes of social transformation and regional elites in Andalusia (Spain) and La Araucanía (Chile). For over two decades, he has engaged in interdisciplinary research alongside historians, geographers, economists, engineers, and environmental scientists. He has led regional and international research projects, coordinated postdoctoral research, and regularly serves as an evaluator for R&D project proposals and as a peer reviewer for academic journals. He has been awarded two officially recognized research periods (“sexenios”) by Spain’s national quality assessment agency, ANECA.

José Maria Miura Andrades
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Full Professor of Medieval History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide. He holds a PhD in History from the Universidad de Sevilla (1996) and has taught at the Universities of Seville, Huelva, and Pablo de Olavide. He is Co-Director of the Master’s Program in Latin American History: Indigenous Worlds.

José María Valcuende del Río
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PhD in Social Anthropology and professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, Basic Psychology, and Public Health at UPO. He has conducted fieldwork in Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Spain, and Portugal. His research spans themes such as borders, identities, historical memory, tourism and local communities, environmental representations, and heritage. In recent years, his focus has been on the southern Peruvian Amazon, with recent work exploring sexual diversity. He currently coordinates the Ibero-American Laboratory for the Sociohistorical Study of Sexualities (LIESS Network).

Luis Villagarcia Saiz
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PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Almería and Associate Professor of Ecology at UPO. His research focuses on modeling scalar fluxes in semi-arid ecosystems, validated through specialized field instrumentation. He is currently involved in climate change projects, especially on phosphorus availability in arid environments. He coordinates an Erasmus+ (K2) project on SDGs and serves as regional scientific coordinator for the Biodiversity Complementary Plan. He also directs the CEI on Environment, Biodiversity, and Global Change (CEI-CamBio). Since 2001, he has taught undergraduate and master’s courses and co-directs Mundo Sostenible, a podcast on RadiOlavide.

Maria José Galvez Carmona
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PhD candidate at UPO in the program History and Humanistic Studies: Europe, the Americas, Art, and Languages. Her research focuses on Peruvian media in the late 20th century. She holds a Master’s in Latin American History – Indigenous Worlds and a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities, both from the same university. With over 21 years of experience as a journalist at the national newspaper El Mundo, she is currently supported by a research grant from UPO’s internal funding program and collaborates with the Area of Latin American History at Pablo de Olavide University.

Maria Victoria Quintero Moron
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Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, Basic Psychology, and Public Health at UPO. She is a member of the Social Research and Participatory Action Group (PAIDI SEJ-149) and the Environmental Anthropology Network (ANTRAMB). Her research focuses on heritage-making processes, both cultural and natural, approached through urban anthropology, political ecology, tourism studies, feminist theory, and participatory governance. She is the author of Los sentidos del patrimonio (2009), awarded both the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize and the Blas Infante Research Prize. Her work has been published in journals such as Material Culture, AIBR, and International Journal of Critical Heritage Studies, with recent contributions on LGTBIQ+ heritage. She has collaborated with institutions like the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage and serves as a board member of the Andalusian Commission for Movable Heritage (2020–2024). She is also active in training heritage professionals and advocating for gender equality in academia.

Marta Bordons Martínez
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PhD candidate in the program History and Humanistic Studies: Europe, the Americas, Art, and Languages at UPO. She holds a Master’s degree in Latin American History – Indigenous Worlds and a dual Bachelor’s in Translation, Interpreting, and Humanities. She has completed academic stays in Canada, Germany, Chile, and Brazil. Her publications explore social movements, literature, and ecosystem conservation. She has presented at conferences in Spain, Norway, and Chile, and has taught classes in Madrid, Santiago, Rosario (Argentina), and Puno (Peru). She is also an active climate justice advocate in national and international environmental organizations.

Nayibe Gutierrez Montoya
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Sandra Milena Taborda Parra
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Historian from the University of Cartagena (Colombia), with a PhD in History and Humanistic Studies and a Master’s in Latin American History – Indigenous Worlds from UPO. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Area of American History at UPO and a member of the research group Historical-Cultural Integration, Development, and Human Rights in Latin America (HUM209). Her research focuses on enslaved populations in the Colombian Caribbean (18th–19th centuries), addressing their characteristics, resistance, struggles for freedom, and the abolition process. She has conducted research stays in Colombia, Portugal, Germany, and São Tomé and Príncipe.