Alvaro Santana-Acuña
Graduate Student in Sociology
Biographical Note
Álvaro Santana-Acuña, a native of the Canary Islands (Spain), received his B.A. and D.E.A. in History from the University of La Laguna (Spain) and his M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago (USA). He has been a visiting student-researcher at Stanford University (USA) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences (Paris). He has given lectures/papers in France, Mexico, Germany, USA, Spain, and England, and has also published his research in several of these countries. He has taught at the Universities of La Laguna, Harvard, and Chicago. A former Fulbrighter, he is currently a fellow at the Real Colegio Complutense (Complutense University, Spain) and a graduate student affiliate at The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (Harvard University). Last Spring, he co-organized "Objects of Knowledge, Objects of Exchange: Contours of (Inter)disciplinarity," the 2009 Mellon Graduate Student Conference at the Humanities Center (Harvard University).
10/15/2009
- Research Interests
- Theory, comparative historical sociology, sociology of knowledge, revolutions and emergence of the social, sociology of art worlds (literature)
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