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Position:
Tenured Scientist
Speciality:
History of America
CSIC
Instituto de Historia (IH)
Albasanz, 26-28
28037 Madrid
Spain
Tel.:
0034 91 602 2335
Fax:
0034 91 304 5710
loles.gonzalez-ripoll@cchs.csic.es |
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Mª Dolores González-Ripoll
Training and Professional experience
Graduate in Geography and History, specialized in History of America (1985) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Obtained her PhD in 1994. She was awarded several grants by various Spanish institutions between 1988 and 1995 (Fundación BBVA, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia and Comunidad de Madrid), and scholarships at the Universidad de La Habana (Cuba), Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Mexico), Maison des Pays Ibèriques (CNRS, Bordeaux, France), Florida International University (Miami), Université Paris VIII, etc.
She won predoctoral and postdoctoral scholarships at the CSIC. After four years as a research scientist as part of the Ramón y Cajal Programme at the Institute of History of the CSIC, she became a tenured scientist in July 2008.
She has been involved in over fourty national and international congresses and has lectured at different academic centres. Since 2000 she has been a member of the CSIC associated unit at the Universidad Jaume I (Comparative Social History Unit). She was a commissioner for exhibitions of scientific expeditions and enlightened naval officers (San Sebastián, Spain, 2001 and 2005). She is a member of several scientific boards responsible for book compilations on History of America and History of Science, as well as of diverse associations of researchers and specialists in Latin American subjects.
She has been an invited lecturer at specialization courses at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain) and the Universidad de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Morelia, Mexico). She is currently a member of the Comparative Studies Team on Caribbean and Atlantic World (GECCMA) as well as the Caribbean Studies Network and the Caribbean Work Group within the AHILA framework. Between 1991 and 2010 she has been involved with the organization of 12 international congresses.
Research experience
Her research work forms part of the studies on social and cultural history of America, paying special attention to the Caribbean in the XVIII and XIX centuries. She has focused on enlightened scientific expeditions, XIX-century thought in the West Indies, and elites, social networks and family in the Spanish Antilles during the colonial period.
Projects
She has taken part in 12 research projects at national level and several other international ones, all publicly-funded. To name but a few:
- ‘Raza’, nación y pensamiento científico en la construcción de las identidades americanas en el tránsito de siglo, 1870-1930. DGES. 1997-2000.
- Identidades compartidas/identidades contrapuestas: España-Cuba, 1837-1959. MCYT. 2000-2003.
- El exilio científico como expresión de la ciencia y la cultura de Madrid: los casos de México y Cuba. CAM. 2001.
- La sociedad rural en Cuba: diversificación agrícola y formas de identidad, 1837-1937. MEC. 2003-2006.
She was the principal investigator of the project:
Selected publications
She has written more than 20 articles in national and international journals, as well as 8 books and numerous book chapters. Among them, it is worth mentioning the following:
- González-Ripoll, M. D., A las órdenes de las estrellas. La vida del marino Cosme de Churruca y sus expediciones a América, Madrid, Fundación BBV-CSIC, 1995.
- González-Ripoll, M. D., Eugenio Mª de Hostos: Utopía y Federación, Morelia, Ed. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Colección Latinoamericanos 4, 1996.
- González-Ripoll, M. D. y García Mora, L. M., El Caribe en la época de la Independencia y de las Nacionalidades, Morelia, Colección Alborada Latinoamericana, 11, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 1997.
- González-Ripoll, M. D., Cuba, la isla de los ensayos. Economía y sociedad (1790-1815), Madrid, CSIC, 1999.
- González-Ripoll, M. D., Bajo pólvora y estrellas. Churruca y otros marinos vascos de la Ilustración, San Sebastián, Untzi Museoa, Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa, 2000.
- Soto Arango, D., Puig-Samper, M. A., Bender, Martina y González-Ripoll, M. D. (eds.), Recepción y difusión de textos ilustrados. Intercambio científico entre Europa y América en la Ilustración, Aranjuez, Doce Calles-Col. Ciencias-Martin Luther Universität Halle-Nittenberg, 2003.
- González-Ripoll, M. D., Naranjo, C. et al, El rumor de Haití en Cuba: temor, raza y rebeldía, 1789-1844, Madrid, CSIC, 2004.
- González-Ripoll, M. D. (edición e introducción histórica), Vida de José Julián Parreño, un jesuita habanero por Andrés Cavo. Madrid, CSIC, 2007.
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