Dr Graciela Iglesias Rogers

Senior Lecturer

School of History, Archaeology and Philosophy

G.IglesiasRogers@winchester.ac.uk

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Biography

Dr Graciela Iglesias Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History. Her broad fields of interest are the political, cultural and social history of Europe (including Britain), the Americas, Africa and Asia from a transnational perspective, with particular attention to developments relating to Spanish-speaking communities from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

She embarked on academia after life as a Reuters fellow with a long career in journalism, including as Chief European correspondent for the Argentine broadsheet La Nacion. At the University of Oxford, she read for a BA degree in Modern History (St. Hilda's College) followed by a doctorate (Lady Margaret Hall). She subsequently held various positions as tutor, lecturer and researcher (Hertford College, St. Peter’s College, Faculty of History) and established the interdisciplinary research network ‘Translations in Transnational Contexts’. She joined the Department of History at Winchester in October 2014. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society "in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship” in 2023.

Currently, she is co-convenor of the Modern History Research Centre (MHRC) and the Principal Investigator in the AHRC-funded international research network project 'The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18th to early 20th centuries) in partnership with the National Trust Tyntesfield. Find out more about the Hispanic-Anglosphere Project.

She has peer-reviewed grants for The Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and The National University of Ireland's Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities and is one of the external examiners for courses in the Humanities of the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.

Dr Graciela Iglesias-Rogers has been consulted by many media outlets including BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, The Independent, Radio Nacional de España (National Radio of Spain) and the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad on issues as varied as Catalan separatism, royal abdications, the history of European and Latin American elections, the development of anarchism in the Hispanic world and the Falklands War.

Higher Education Teaching Qualification: Higher Education Academy Fellowship (FHEA).

Publications

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Books

Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (ed.), The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021)
D. Hook and G. Iglesias-Rogers (eds), Translations in times of disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017).
British liberators in the age of Napoleon: volunteering under the Spanish flag in the Peninsular War (Bloomsbury: London and New York, 2013) - papeback edition in 2014.

Chapters

'The dislocation of the global Hispanic world', in Alan Forrest and Peter Hicks, eds. The New Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, Volume 3. Experience, Culture and Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 550-567 and bibliographical essay pp. 641-2.
'What is the Hispanic-Anglosphere? Concepts, Methods and Public Engagement' in Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 1-17.
with José Brownrigg-Gleeson Martínez, "Spanish 'Colonies': A Term Forged in the Hispanic-Anglosphere" in Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 27-46.
Love, Prejudice, Pandemics and Global Entrepreneurship: William 'Guillermo' Gibbs's Long Route to Tyntesfield in Graciela Iglesias-Rogers, ed. The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - An Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 101-36.
‘From Philos Hispaniae to Karl Marx: the first English translation of a Liberal Codex’ in D. Hook and G. Iglesias-Rogers (eds.), Translations in times of disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017), pp. 45-73.
D. Hook and G. Iglesias-Rogers, ‘Translations in times of disruption: the way ahead’, in D. Hook and G. Iglesias-Rogers (eds.), Translations in times of disruption: an interdisciplinary study in transnational contexts (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2017), pp.1-28.
'Soldiering abroad: the experience of living and fighting among aliens during the Napoleonic wars', in Kevin Linch and Matthew McCormack (eds) Britain’s soldiers: rethinking war and society, 1715 - 1815 (Liverpool University Press, 2014).
‘Una promesa de «felicidad, libertad y prosperidad»: la primera traduccion inglesa de la Constitución de Cadiz de 1812’, in Fernando Durán Lopez (ed.), Hacia 1812, desde el siglo ilustrado (Gijon: Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII - Ediciones Trea, 2013), pp 857-871.
'«Libertadores británicos»: voluntarios en las fuerzas españolas durante la Guerra de la Independencia (1808 - 1814)', In El Comienzo de la Guerra de la Independencia, ed. by Emilio de Diego and José Luis Martínez Sanz (Madrid, 2008), 1-14

Articles, reports and book reviews - a selection

'Jose Joaquin de Mora in Chile: From Neo-Europe to the ‘Beocia Americana’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, volume 36, number 2 (2017), 326-339. - paper edition. Online edition: Bulletin of Latin American Research, issue 745, (2016) DOI:10.1111/blar.12480.
‘The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire, by Bianca Premo (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2017; pp. 361. £26.49); The Enlightenment in Iberia and Ibero-America, by Brian Hamnett (Cardiff: U. of Wales P., 2017; pp. 374. £55)’, The English Historical Review, (October 2018), DOI:10.1093/ehr/cey318
‘Alberto, Paulina L. and Elena, Eduardo (eds.) (2016) Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), xviii + 373 pp. £96.00 hbk’, Bulletin of Latin American Research, (September 2018), Vol. 37, No. 4, 522-23. DOI.org/10.1111/blar.12872
'Redes de nacion y espacios de poder. La Comunidad irlandesa en Espana y la America Espanola, 1600-1825 [Power Strategies. Spain and Ireland, 1600-1825], ed. Oscar Recio Morales', English Historical Review, 130/544 (June 2015), 753-55.DOI: 10.1093/ehr/cev128
'Waterloo, the Napoleonic Wars and the Recasting of the Global Iberian World'. The RUSI Journal, 160 (3) (2015). 76-81. DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2015.1058072
'War Volunteering in the 19th and 20th Centuries', Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift 67/1 (2008), 147-152.
'War Volunteering in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Report, International Conference, University of Tübingen, Blaubeuren, 6-8 September 2007' H-Soz-u-Kult, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 30.10.2007 [Available at http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungs be richte/id=1759 ]
David Bushnell (ed.), El Libertador: writings of Simón Bolivar, book review in the Journal of the Oxford University History Society, Issue 5 (Michaelmas, 2007). [Available at http://sites.google.com/site/jouhsinfo/issue5 (20078)]
M.A. Burkholder and L.L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, book review in the Journal of the Oxford University History Society, Issue 1 (Michaelmas Term, 2004). [Available at http://sites.google.com/site/jouhsinfo/issue1 (hilary2004)]
'The responsibility of the media in the Northern Ireland conflict: An Argentine perspective', British Journalism Review 1 (1992), 32-55

Exhibitions and other digital media:

G. Iglesias-Rogers, curator and co-author of ‘Exploring the Hispanic-Anglosphere’, available at https://hispanic-anglosphere.com/public-history/online-exhibitions/ within the online platform of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Hispanic-Anglosphere: transnational networks, global communities (late 18^th century-early 20^th centuries): http://hispanic-anglosphere.com

G. Iglesias-Rogers, author, ‘The Reaction in the Hispanic world’ and ‘Peru reacts to Napoleon’ contributions to the international online exhibition ‘The Last Stand - Napoleon 100 Days in 100 Objects’ (http://www.100days.eu/items/show/49 and http://www.100days.eu/items/show/98) coordinated by Mark Philp, University of Warwick.

Conferences

?Organisation of international conferences - a selection

Roots of Rootlessness? Translations in Times of Disruption (St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, 10 May 2014), second conference of the interdisciplinary research network Translations in Transnational Contexts.
'I know my place’: the interaction of urban space and social hierarchies in history (Trinity College, 14 May 2011), second international colloquium of the Journal of the Oxford University History Society.
Odd Alliances in History (Balliol College, 14 March 2009), first international colloquium of the Journal of the Oxford University History Society.

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Research interests

?Britain, Europe and the Americas in the 18th to 20th centuries
The Global Hispanic World (Spain, the Americas, North and West Africa and the Philippines)
Transnational History and Entanglement History

Current research

Dr Iglesias Rogers is the lead researcher for the international research network project 'The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th - 20th centuries)' in partnership with The National Trust (Tyntesfield), funded by the AHRC (see below). Find out more about the Hispanic-Anglosphere project.

Other major research collaborations

2013 - 2017:

Translations in Transnational Contexts

Founder and interim coordinator of this interdisciplinary research network supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), The Modern European History Research Centre (MEHRC) and The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM). Visit the Translations in Transnational Contexts website.

Chile in the 1820

A new look at the post-independence period, an initiative of the Centro de Estudios de Historia Política, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) and the Centre for the Study of Colonial and Postcolonial Societies, University of Bristol (England).

2010 - 2011:

Soldiers and Soldiering in Britain 1750 - 1815

An AHRC project based at the University of Leeds and the University of Northampton.

Supervision of research students

Dr Iglesias Rogers provides thesis guidance to postgraduate students and acts as examiner for various Masters Programmes on 'Modern British and European History' and 'Global and Imperial History', including the 'Europeaum', the European Masters programme organised by the universities of Leiden, Paris and Oxford.

She welcomes proposals for postgraduate research at Winchester. Her areas of supervision are: the social, cultural, political and environmental history of Europe (including Britain) and the Americas in the 18th to 20th centuries and particularly their entanglement with the global Hispanic world (Spain, the Americas, North and West Africa and the Philippines) as well as any projects that may take a transnational approach.

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

Recent funding awards

2017-19 AHRC funding for the international research network project 'The Hispanic Anglosphere: Transnational networks and global communities (18th - 20th centuries)' in partnership with The National Trust (Tyntesfield) (£34,538). Find out more about the Hispanic-Anglosphere project.
2016-17 Small Wellcome Research Grant (project ‘Medicine and warfare: the role of the Cinchona bark in the Napoleonic Wars’) (£4991).

Memberships

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO)
Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS)
Association of Latin American Studies (LASA)
British International History Association
The Higher Education Academy
Argentine Association of University Professionals in the United Kingdom (APARU)
UK Latin American Historians Network
Foxford Society (a body dedicated to increasing knowledge of historical links between Ireland and Argentina)