Global Catalonia: Untangling Nationalism and Globalization, 1978-2017

In June 2025, I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation, “Global Catalonia: Untangling Nationalism and Globalization, 1978-2017”. This project explores the relationship between Catalan nationalism and the globalizing processes since Spain’s return to democracy in 1978. The central argument is that Catalonia’s global turn, or, the way in which the movement responded to the challenges and opportunities of late-twentieth century globalization, was the most salient factor in the movement’s development during this period. Accordingly, the chapters of the dissertation explore various examples in which domestic and global developments interacted to alter the trajectory of Catalanisme, including the realms of tourism, language education, elite sport, and more.

I am currently working on developing the dissertation into a manuscript for publication as a monograph.

Untitled Family Migration History Project

In my capacity as the Historical Methods Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, I am a member of the Visiting Researchers Group at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing. With support from both OCLW and CWAR’s “Cold War Lives” initiative, I am in the early stages of developing a book exploring my family’s history of migration from Spain to Cuba in the nineteenth century, to the United States in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, and to Europe in the twenty-first century. This project, which puts family papers and oral history interviews in conversation with documents from archives on either side of the Atlantic, will explore the relationship between culture, immigration, and identity in the complex political environment of the long twentieth century.

Cold War Archival Research Institute

As the Archivist and Program Coordinator for the Cold War Archival Research Institute, I manage both the CWAR Graduate Fellow Program and the Senior Fellows Program. For the latter, I also run collection and archiving of thousands of documents for our CARE International Project, which has produced both a special issue for Cold War History (the articles for which are currently under peer review) and an edited volume, which is currently being written. This groundbreaking collaborative and global methodology will soon be expanded to focus on other global Cold War projects.

Museum of Music History

As the Archivist for the Museum of Music History, I am part of a team that is transforming 40 tonnes of unprocessed and uncatalogued documentation into a professional archive. In addition to helping manage our ever-growing database of historical documents, I manage cataloguing and our volunteer teams, as well as writing finding aids to help visiting researchers navigate our holdings.

The Forgotten Mother of Berlin: Eleanor Lansing Dulles and her Cold Wars

For several years, I have worked as the personal research assistant for Dr. Victoria Phillips, primarily on her forthcoming biographies of Eleanor Lansing Dulles. In this capacity, I have worked with English- and German-language documents from archives across North America and Europe.