Academic & Teaching staff

Dr Gregorio Alonso

Lecturer

Dr Gregorio Alonso

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Research Interests

His research ranges from the study of political and religious conflicts in Modern Europe to the making of the liberal and the Catholic traditions during the nineteenth Century. Moreover he is interested in the political, cultural and religious aspects of modernization processes in comparative perspective. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes: The Politics and Memory of Democratic Transition. The Spanish Model (Routledge: 2011) and Londres y el Liberalismo Hispánico (Iberoamericana/Vervuert: 2011), and the monograph La Ciudadania Católica y sus enemigos (Comares: 2012). He is studying the figure of Vicente Rocafuerte, the second President of the Republic of Ecuador, and conducting comparative research on the processes of nationalization and secularization in England, Italy and Spain.

Major Publications

  • La Ciudadania Católica y sus enemigos. (Comares, 2012)
  • (With Diego Muro) Politics and the Memory of Democratic Transition: The Spanish Model (Routledge, 2011)
  • (with Daniel Muñoz-Sempere) Londres y el Liberalismo Hispánico. (Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2011)
  • "Children of a Lesser God. The pastoral and political action of the Catholic Church", Alonso, Gregorio and Diego Muro, The politics and memory of the Spanish Transition to Democracy. The Spanish Model. Routledge: New York and London, 2011, 113-135. Learning from the Enemy: Liberal Catholicism and Protestantism in the Exiles Experience", Muñoz-Sempere, Daniel y Gregorio Alonso, Londres y el Liberalismo Hispánico, Vervuert/Latinoamericana: Madrid, 2011, 59-75.
  • "Lecturas de la Transición", Carmen Frías, José Luis Ledesma, Javier Rodrigo (eds.), Revaluaciones. Historias locales y miradas globales, Institución Fernando el Católico: Zaragoza, 2011, 165-177. "Dudas y desencantos de una sociedad civil emergente: la secularización de la España rural decimonónica" Francisco Cobo y Margarita Ortega, La España rural. Siglos XIX y XX. Comares, Granada 2010, 1-21.
  • La nación estrábica: los orígenes internacionales de la libertad religiosa en España", España Contemporánea. Revista de Literatura y Cultura, vol. XXIII, n. 1, Ohio State University, 2010, p. 45-67.
  • "Ciudadanía católica: identidad, exclusión y conflicto en la experiencia liberal", Fernando Molina Aparicio (ed.) Extranjeros en el Pasado. La nueva Historiografía en España. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2009, 42-73. 
  • '"Del altar una barricada, del santuario una fortaleza". 1808 y la Nación Católica', Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos (ed.) La Guerra de la Independencia en la cultura española, Siglo XXI, Madrid, 2008, 75-105.

Invited Lectures and Forthcoming Activities

  • Annual Conference of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS). Paper Title: '' "The Evolving Nature of Spanish Anticlericalism during the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823)", Kansas City, April, 2009.
  • Annual Conference of The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland (AHGBI). Paper Title: 'A Poisoned Fruit: The unsettled religious question and Modern Spain', Queen's Belfast, Belfast, April 2009.
  • International Conference on 'London and Hispanic Liberalism'. Paper Title: 'Learning from the enemy. Protestantism and Catholic tolerance in the exiles' experience'. King's College London, May, 2009.
  • Biannual Conference of Young Modern Spanish History Researchers. Paper Title: 'Recent works on Spanish religiosity and secularization (s)', AHC-Universidad de Granada, September, 2009.
  • Annual Conference of The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain & Ireland (AHGBI). Paper Title: 'A comparative approach to the role of religion in nation building in Modern Spain', King's College London, London, April 2010.
  • III Congreso Internacional Historia de Nuestro Tiempo. Paper Title: "Polarización, clases sociales y grandes potencias en el final del mundo oligárquico". Universidad de la Rioja (Spain), November 2011.
  • International Conference, 'The multiple faces of Liberalism'. Paper Title: 'When Civic Humanism met Capitalism: Vicente Rocafuerte and the Colombian System', University of Warwick, January 2012.

External Positions

  • Academic referee for Palgrave, Biblioteca Nueva, European History Quarterly, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ASEN and the Spanish Journals AYER, Historia del Presente and Historia y Política

Major Research Projects and Grants

  • Universidad Autónomade Madrid MA Scholarship
  • Spanish Ministry of Education PhD Scholarship

Teaching

  • SPPO1042 Historical Development of Spain and Latin America (coordinator)
  • SPPO2630-31 Liberalism, Revolution and Reaction
  • SPPO3540 The religious question in Spain
  • SPPO3430 Dissertation (coordinator)
  • SPPO3094 Extended Essay (coordinator)

Postgraduate Research Supervision

  • Nineteenth and early Twentieth century Europe and Spain
  • Cultural and religious Modern European History
  • Social and protest movements
  • Theories of secularization and democratization
  • Nationalism and modernization
  • Collective and individual processes of identification

Departmental Responsibilities

  • Exam Officer