Curriculum Vitae

	Curriculum Vitae
	Nationality: Venezuelan Mail address: CERMA, bureau 909, 54 bd. Raspail, Paris 75006, France E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.geocities.com/histcarib/index.htm Alejandro Enrique GÓMEZ PERNÍA

RESEARCH INTERESTS	Primary: History of the Sensibilities, Connected Histories and Social History in the Greater Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolutions. Secondary: History of the Present in contemporary Venezuela/Latin America.

EDUCATION Since 2005 Jan.2002-Dec. 2004 Sept.1997-Dec. 2002	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) DOCTOR CANDIDATE at the doctoral school of History and Civilizations Dissertation subject : The Syndrome of Saint-Domingue: Emotive and ideological reactions to the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1791-1880” (Research project, abridged version) Dissertation supervisor: Frédérique Langue (CNRS/EHESS) Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela) MAGISTER in Political Science Thesis : “Citizens of color: from the ‘mulatto affaire’ in France to the ‘pardo question’ in Venezuela, 1789-1812” Thesis supervisor: Carole Leal Curiel Referees: Germán Carrera Damas (UCV), Anibal Romero (USB) Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela) LICENCIATURA in History Area of concentration: History of America Honors: Magna Cum Laude Thesis: “The Revolution in the French Antilles from the perspective of some royalist officers who migrated to the Coast of Caracas” Thesis supervisor: Ramón Aizpurua Referees: María Elena González de Lucca (UCV), Luís Felipe Pellicer (UCV)

AWARDS & GRANTS
2007	RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN NEW YORK CITY granted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York, United States).
	RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN RICHMOND granted by the Virginia Historical Society (Virginia, United States).
2006	RESEARCH BURSARY IN OXFORD given by the David Nichols Memorial Trust (Oxford, England).
	ACCOMMODATION GRANT IN SEVILLE given by the Instituto de Estudios Hispano Americanos (Seville, Spain).
2005	MATRICULATION GRANT AND SCHOLARSHIP to pursue doctoral studies in France, given by EduFrance-Fundayacucho (France-Venezuela) [The Venezuelan government refused to carry out its part of the agreement].
2003	PRIZE TO THE CARIBBEAN [HISTORICAL] THOUGHT (20.000 US$ + Publication), awarded by the government of the State of Quintana Roo (Cancún, Mexico). Members of jury: (Uninimous desition). Composition of jury: Lancelot Cowie (University of the West Indies), Silvio Torres Saillant (Syracuse University) and Germán Carrera Damas (Universidad Central de Venezuela).
2002	RESEARCH GRANT IN FRANCE given by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France).
2001	RESEARCH GRANT IN FRANCE given by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (France).

PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming in 2009	Chapter: “El ‘mal ejemplo’ haitiano. La revolución de Saint-Domingue en la ‘memoria histórica’ de los virginianos 1831-1865 ”, in Clément Thibaud, Federica Morelli and Genevieve Verdo (eds.), Le tiers moment. Les empires atlantiques entre réformisme des Lumières et libéralisme (1763-1865), Nantes: Université de Nantes.
2008	Article: “La Revolución de Caracas 'desde abajo'. Impensando la primera independencia de Venezuela desde la perspectiva de los Libres de Color, y de las pugnas político-bélicas que se dieran en torno a su acceso a la ciudadanía, 1793-1815”, in Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.8. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/index32982.html
2007	Chapter: “Malas y peores noticias en la Capitanía General de Venezuela en tiempos de la Revolución Haitiana”, in Frédérique Langue and Sandra Jatahy Pesavento (coords.), Sensibilidades na história: memórias, singulares et identidades sociais. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS (Brazil), 2007, pp.205-238
2006	Chapter: “Del ‘affaire’ de los mulatos, al asunto de los pardos”, in María Teresa Calderón; Clément Thibaud (eds.), Las Revoluciones en el mundo Atlántico: una perspectiva comparada. Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia; Taurus, 2006, pp. 299-319
	Article: “Entre résistance, piraterie et républicanisme: mouvements insurrectionnels d’inspiration révolutionnaire franco-antillaise dans la Côte de Caracas, 1794-1800”, in Travaux et Recherches de l’UMLV, No. 11. Marne-la-Vallée: Université de Marne-la-Vallée (France), pp.91-120, on line: http://www.scribd.com/doc/8650472/Entre-Resistance-piraterie-et-republicanisme
	Article: “La ley de los franceses: una reinterpretación de las insurrecciones de inspiración jacobina en la costa de Caracas”, in Akademos, Vol. 7, No.1. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación (Venezuela), pp. n/a
	Article: “L’épée du Libertador dans l’idéologie des révolutionnaires bolivariens”, in Problèmes d’Amérique Latine, No. 60 (Spring). Paris: Institute Choiseul (France), pp.95-114
	Historiographic Essay (with Federica Morelli): “La nueva Historia Atlántica: un asunto de escalas”, in Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.6. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document2102.html
	Article: “¿Ciudadanos de Color? El problema de la ciudadanía de los esclavos y la Gente de Color durante la revoluciones franco-antillanas, 1788-1804”, in Anuario de Estudios Bolivarianos, No.11. Valle de Sartenejas: Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela), 2006, pp.117-158, on line: http://bolivarium.usb.ve/pub/anuario.html ; also available from: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/index9973.html
	Article: “El Síndrome de Saint-Domingue: Percepciones y sensibilidades de la Revolución Haitiana en el Gran Caribe (1791-1814)”, in Caravelle, No.86. Toulouse: Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail (France), pp.125-156
	Paper: “Haïti : entre la peur et le besoin: royalistes et républicains vénézuéliens: relations et repères avec Saint-Domingue et les Îles du Vent, 1790-1830”, in G. Bonnaci et al. (dir.), La Révolution haïtienne au delà de ses frontières. Paris: Karthala (France), 2006, pp.141-166. Partially available on line through Google Books
2005	Chapter: “La reliquia más preciada de la Revolución bolivariana”, in D. Irwin et F. Langue (Eds.), Militares y poder en Venezuela (Ensayos históricos vinculados con las relaciones civiles y militares venezolanas). Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela), 2005, pp. 179-204
	Article: “El ‘Estigma Africano’ en los Mundos Hispano-Atlánticos, siglos XIV al XIX”, in Revista de História, No.153 (2nd. Semester 2005), São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), pp.139-180, on line: http://www.scribd.com/doc/3010757/Revista-de-Historia-ptbr
	Article: “El papel de los intelectuales en la Venezuela de Hugo Chávez: los historiadores a la palestra pública”, in L'Ordinaire Latino Américain, No. 207. Toulouse: IPEALT (France), pp.83-94
	Paper: “Las revoluciones blanqueadoras: elites mulatas haitianas y "pardos beneméritos" venezolanos, y su aspiración a la igualdad, 1789-1812”, in Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, N. 5. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document868.html
2004	Monograph: “Fidelidad bajo el viento. Revolución y contrarrevolución en las Antillas francesas, 1790-1795”. Mexico: Siglo XXI Editores, 2004. Partially available on line through Google Books
	Article: “La Revolución Haitiana y la Tierra Firme hispana”, in Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, N. 5. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document211.html

BOOK REVIEWS	Manuel Hernández González, Francisco de Miranda y su ruptura con España, Las Palmas, Ediciones Ideas, 2006, 213 p.”, Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.7. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document3588.html Jacques de Cauna (ed.), Toussaint Louverture et l’indépendance d’Haïti, Paris, Karthala/SFHOM, 2004, 296 p., Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.7. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document6974.html Matthew Brown, Martín Alonso Roa (comps.), Militares extranjeros en la independencia de Colombia. Nuevas Perspectivas, Bogotá, Museo Nacional de Colombia, 2005, 311 p., Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.6. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document2909.html Domingo Irwin, Luís Alberto Buttó y Frédérique Langue, Control Civil y Pretorianismo en Venezuela, Caracas, UPEL-Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, 2006, 228 p., Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.6. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document3000.html María Dolores González-Ripoll, Consuelo Naranjo, Ada Ferrer, Gloria García y Josef Opatrný, El rumor de Haití en Cuba: Temor, Raza y Rebeldía, 1789-1844, Madrid, CSIC, Col. Tierra Nueva e Cielo Nuevo, No.50, 2004, 444 p., Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.6. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document2471.html Álvarez Cuartero, Izaskún; Sánchez Gómez, Julio (Eds.), Visiones y revisiones de la independencia americana (México, Centroamérica y Haití). Salamanca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Salamanca; Aquilafuente, 84, 2005., Nuevo Mundo-Mundos Nuevos, No.6. Paris: CERMA (France), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/document1371.html

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
February 2009	Paper: “Conflictos étnico-estamentales entre aspiraciones tradicionales modernizadas de Blancos Criollos y Libres de Color. Provincia de Caracas, 1789-1828”, presented at the Maison des langues et des cultures, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France).
January 2009	Job Talk: “In Pursuit of the ‘Haitian Fear’: Perceptions and Recollections of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1791-1886”, presented at the Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, United States).
January 2009	Paper: “The Bourbon Monarch’s Most Loyal and Humblest Servants. French royalist officers in the Hispanic Caribbean in times of revolution, 1790-1795”, presented at the annual conference of the American Historical Association, CLAH, held in New York (NY, United States).
December 2007	Paper: “Beyond the 'Haitian Fear'”. Presented at the conference: Atlantic Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1868, held at the University of Leeds (Leeds, Great Britain).
April 2007	Paper: “My friends Brissot, Raynal and Wilberforce.” Presented at the conference: Abolitions, 1807-2007. Ending the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World, held at the King's Manor (University of York, Great Britain).
July 2006	Paper: “Between Resistance and Republicanism.” Presented at the Conference of the Society of Caribbean Studies held at the National Archives (Kew Gardens, Great Britain).
May 2005	Paper: “The Pardo Question: Political and ideological struggle on Free Coloreds equality during the Revolution of Caracas, 1810-1812.” Presented at the workshop: Atlantic History Workshop. The Age of Revolution in the Atlantic World, in Michigan State University at Lansing and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (MI, United States), on line: http://nuevomundo.revues.org/index34503.html
March 2005	Paper: “Les élites mulâtres haïtiennes et les ‘pardos beneméritos’ vénézuéliens, et leur aspiration à l’égalité, 1789-1812.” presented in the seminar Déuxième Seminaire d’Histoire des sensibilités, held at the at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France).
Oct. 2004	Paper: “Del ‘affaire’ de los mulatos, al asunto de los pardos.” Presented in the seminar: Las Revoluciones en el Mundo Atlántico: una perspectiva comparada, held at the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia).
June 2004	Paper: “The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Coast of Caracas.” Presented in the congress: Re-interpreting the Haitian Revolution and its cultural aftershocks, held at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago).
June 2004	Paper: “Haïti : entre la peur et le besoin.” Presented in the workshop: La Révolution haïtienne au delà de ses frontières, held at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Oct.-Dec. 2006	TAUGHT UNDERGRADUATE COURSE “L’invention de la liberté dans l’Amérique espagnole. Un essai d’histoire croisée” (Partially structured syllabus, lectured all twelve sessions and administered all grades but the final exam) in the LH13 teaching unit at the University of Marne-la-Vallé (Champs-sur-Marne, France). Responsable: Dr. Georges Lomné. Syllabus available on line at: http://www.esnips.com/doc/bccf1164-9513-4553-803d-2ec3244c384c/programa-cours-mlv
Nov.2005	INVITED TO LECTURE SESSION in a course of CAPES D’HISTOIRE at the University of Marne-la-Vallé (Champs-sur-Marne, France)
Jan. - June 2003	TAUGHT UNDERGRADUATE ELECTIVE COURSE, ‘El Caribe en Tierra Firme’ (Structured syllabus, lectured sessions and administered grades) at the School of History School, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Syllabus available on line at: http://www.geocities.com/histcarib/electiva_I-2003.htm
Sept.- Dec. 2002	TEACHING ASSISTANT to professor Ramón Aizpurua in his course ‘Problemas de historia caribeña’ (Led discussions and lectured some sessions) at the School of History School, Universidad Central de Venezuela.

RELATED ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
2009-2010	COORDINATION OF WORKSHOP, Les empires du monde atlantique en révolution. Une perspective transnationale (1763-1865), along with Dr. Clément Thibaud and Dr. Federica Morelli. This workshop will be held at the EHESS (Paris, France) in June 2010.
2008, 2009	COORDINATION OF DOSSIER, "INDEPENDENCIAS" in the e-journal, Nuevo Mundo-Mundos-Nuevos, along with Dr. Federica Morelli.
2004-	MEMBER OF THE REDACTION COMMITTEE of the e-journal, Nuevo Mundo-Mundos-Nuevos, from the Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains, CERMA (Paris, France).
2004-	PARTICIPATION TO AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT: “"The History of Sensibilities: Another way of writing the History of the Americas, the Caribbean and Europe", coordinated by Dr. Frédérique Langue (CERMA, France) and Sandra Jatahy Pesavento (UFRGS, Brasil).
2002-2006	PARTICIPATION TO A BI-NATIONAL PROGRAM, ECOS NORD, project: "Republicanisms in France and Venezuela: transatlantic models and tropisms”. Scientific agreement between the University Simón Bolívar (Caracas) and the University of Marne-la-Vallée (Champs-sur-Marne, France).
2002-2004	ADJUNCT RESEARCHER at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas BOLIVARIUM, Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela).

LANGUAGES	Native language: Spanish. Reading, writing and speaking competence in English and French. Basic reading and speaking competence in Italian.

Last updated: Feb. 2009