Dr Silvia Espelt Bombin
Teaching Associate in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American History
- Email: silvia.espelt-bombin@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: (0) 191 222 8345
- Address: School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building, Room 4.14
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Office hours: Monday 2-4pm or by appointment
Qualifications
PhD in History, School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University
D.E.A. in Latin American History, Universitat de Barcelona
Licenciatura in History, Universitat de Barcelona
Memberships
SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies, UK
CINAF Research Group, Universitat de Barcelona
Languages
Spanish and Catalan, native speaker
French and English, fluent
Portuguese, basic
Undergraduate Teaching
SPA1018 - Comparative History of Spain and Portugal, 1479-2002
LAS2029 - The African Diaspora in Latin America
SPA1017 - Spanish Level B - Accuracy and Fluency
Contributor to LAS1010 - An Introduction to Latin America
Postgraduate Teaching - MA in Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies
Contributor to LAS8100 - Research Methods in Latin American Interdisciplinary Studies
Contributor to LAS8103 - The Shaping of Latin America II
Research Interests
Free coloured people in early modern Latin America and Spain;
Race and political and civic participation in 18th and 19th century Panama and Colombia;
Impact of gender policies in the EU Cooperation Programmes in Panama and Colombia, 1980s-2010.
- Espelt-Bombin S. 'Panama' and 'Panama City'. In: King, S.R, ed. Encyclopaedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas: The African-American Heritage. New York: Facts on File, 2011, pp.585-589.
- Espelt-Bombin S. Review of Dantas, M.L.R, Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas. Labour History Review 2010, 75(2), 235-236.
- Espelt-Bombin S. Fronteras movedizas: la ciudad y el arrabal en Panamá. In: Laviña, J; Orobitg, G, ed. Resistencia y territorialidad. Culturas indígenas y afroamericanas. Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2008, pp.183-198.
- Espelt-Bombin S. Color y orden urbano en Panamá, s.XVIII. In: Dalla Corte, G., García Jordán, P., et al, ed. Encuentro-Debate América Latina Ayer y Hoy: Homogeneïdad, diferencia y exclusión en América. Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2006, pp.345-354.