Consuelo Naranjo Orovio

Training and Professional experience

     She graduated in Geography and History and specialized in Anthropology and Ethnology of America (1981) and Contemporary History (1985). She obtained her PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1988.

     She was a Tenured Scientist between 1989 and 2005 and a Research Scientist until 2009 at the Institute of History (CSIC), where she is currently a Research Professor. She was the Director of the Department of History of America (2002-2003). Between 1989 and 2001, she was the Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Revista de Indias journal (CSIC), of which she has been the current Director since 2002. She has stayed as invited lecturer at universities and research centres in Puerto Rico, Cuba, USA, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Czech Republic and France besides several Spanish universities. She is currently the director of the Antilia Series and also a member of several editorial boards of international scientific journals.
     The series Historia de las Antillas (5 vols.) is currently being compiled under her directione wherein various specialists from several countries and different disciplines are taking part. Volume 1, devoted to the History of Cuba, was published in 2009.
     She is the author of diverse books, scientific monographs and book chapters. She has been the editor of collective works and more than 66 research essays published both nationally and internationally, written individually and/or collectively as a result of an intense scientific collaboration with numerous specialists in the relevant fields. She has lectured and given conferences at several universities in various countries in Europe and America. Furthermore, she has organized and participated in countless scientific events, and has contributed to over 100 congresses both in Spain and abroad.

Research experience

    She is the Director of the Comparative Studies Team on Caribbean and Atlantic World (GECCMA), where she carries out studies in relation to social and cultural history in the XIX and XX centuries, particularly regarding migratory processes, the Spanish republican exile, cultural and scientific relations between Spain and America, cultural identities, race and discrimination. Such extensive research work has resulted in 12 research projects directed and an outstanding scientific output, as well as the beginning of national and international scientific relations: Caribbean Studies Network and Caribbean Work Group within the AHILA framework. She is currently the Director of the Research Project: “Memory of the sugar: economic practices, national narratives and culture in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1791-1930”, MEC, 2006-2009.

Projects

• La inmigración española en América Latina desde 1880 hasta la actualidad. CICYT.1990-1993
• Relaciones culturales y científicas entre España y Cuba: la Junta para la Ampliación de Estudios de Madrid y la Institución Hispano-Cubana de Cultura. CAM. 1997-1998
• ‘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
• Más allá del azúcar. La economía colonial cubana en el último tercio del siglo XIX. (Crecimiento, estructura y relaciones con España). Fundación Carolina. 2003-2005.
• La sociedad rural en Cuba: diversificación agrícola y formas de identidad, 1837-1937. MEC. 2003-06
• Memoria del azúcar: prácticas económicas, narrativas nacionales y cultura en Cuba y Puerto Rico, 1791-1930. MEC. 2006-09

Selected publications

• Naranjo, C., Del campo a la bodega. Recuerdos de gallegos en Cuba, siglo XX, Ediciós do Castro, 1988,  269 pp.
• Naranjo, C., Cuba, otro escenario de lucha. La Guerra civil y el exilio republicano español,  CSIC, 1988, 336 pp.
• Naranjo, C., "La emigración española a Iberoamérica: análisis cuantitativo". Historia de la emigración española a Iberoamérica, 2 Ts., AECI, 1992, 1: pp. 177-200.
• Naranjo, C. y García, A., Medicina y Racismo en Cuba. La ciencia ante la inmigración canaria en el  siglo XX,  Casa de la Cultura Popular Canaria, 1996, 205 pp.
• Naranjo, C. y García, A., Racismo e inmigración en Cuba, siglo XIX, Ediciones Doce Calles 1996, 233 pp.
• Naranjo, C., “Immigration, Race and Nation in Cuba in the Second Half of the XIX Century”. Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv, 1998, 24 (3-4): pp. 303-326.
• Naranjo C. y Serrano, C. (eds.), Imágenes e imaginarios nacionales en el Ultramar español, CSIC-Casa de Velázquez, 1999, 391 pp.
• Naranjo, C., “La isla dividida: republicanos y falangistas en Cuba, 1936-1939”. La Literatura y la Cultura del Exilio Republicano Español de 1939, La Habana, Editorial Unicornio, 2002, pp. 11-35.
• Lavallé, B., Naranjo, C. y Santamaría, A., La América española II (1763-1898). Economía, Madrid, 2002, 463 pp.
• Naranjo, C., Puig-Samper, M.A. y Luque, Mª D., Los lazos de la cultura. El Centro de Estudios Históricos de Madrid y la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1916-1939, Madrid, 2002, 412 pp.
• González-Ripoll, Mª D., Naranjo, C. et al, El rumor de Haití en Cuba: temor, raza y rebeldía, 1789-1844, Madrid, 2004, 457 pp.
• Naranjo, C., "La historia se forja en el campo: nación y cultura cubana en el siglo XX". Calidoscopio Latinoamericano. Ariel, 2004, 367-393 pp.
• Naranjo, C., y Puig-Samper, M.A., "Spanish Intellectuals and Fernando Ortiz (1900-1941)". Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz. Lexinton Books, 2005, 9-37 pp.
• Naranjo, C., “Inmigración española e imaginario nacional en Cuba, 1900-1920". The Cuban Republic and Jose Marti: Reception and Use of a National Symbol, Lexington Books, 2006, 155-170 pp.