Aaron Alejandro Olivas
C.Phil History, UCLA, 2009
MA History, UCLA, 2007
MA Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2004
BA History, University of San Francisco, 2003
 
Office: Bunche 2169
E-mail: aaolivas@gmail.com
 
Subfield
Early Modern Spain and the Spanish Empire (1492-1808); the War of Spanish Succession; Spanish political and cultural relations with France and Portugal; queen consorts

Research
Tentative Dissertation Title: "Spain, France, and New Spain During the War of Spanish Succession (1700-1715): Colonial Impact on the First Global War"

Research Assistant: "Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Islamic Art and Culture in the Spanish Imagination, 1750–1820" (Getty Research Institute, 2009)

Research Assistant: "Andean and European Traces in the Construction of the Manuscripts of Fray Martin de Murúa" (Getty Research Institute, 2007)

Research Assistant: "Faith and Beauty: Chinese and Filipino Art and the Aesthetics of Conversion in the California Missions" (Getty Research Institute, 2006-2007)

MA Thesis: "'La esteril reina': Barbara de Braganza and the Dilemma of the Early Modern Queen Consort" (University of Chicago, 2004)

Honors Thesis: “'La Parmesana': Historical Perspectives on the Life of Queen Isabella Farnese of Spain” (University of San Francisco, 2003)


Notes
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos de UCLA
California Mission Studies Association

Certificat de Langue et Civilisation Françaises (University of Paris-Sorbonne, 2005)


Grants and Awards
Fulbright IIE (Spain), 2009-2010
Albert Hoxie Memorial Fund, 2009
Mellon Summer Institute in Spanish Paleography, 2009
History Department Travel Grant, 2008
Tinker Field Research Grant, 2008
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2007
Graduate Research Mentorship, 2006-2007
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, 2005-2006


Advisors
Dr. Kathryn Norberg (chair)
Dr. Kevin Terraciano
Dr. Geoffrey Symcox
Dr. Claudia Parodi


Conference Presentations
"Exoticism and Erudition in Vivaldi's opera 'Motezuma' (1733)," Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 2008

“‘Por tan justas i necessarias causas’: Philip III's Royal Visit to Lisbon and the Fate of Peninsular Unification, 1580-1640,” Fifth Annual UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student Conference, Los Angeles, May 2008

"The Political Implications of the Jupiter Fable in Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache (1599)," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies conference, Fort Worth, April 2008

"The Queen and the Worms: the Unexemplary Death of Barbara de Braganza (1758)," Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies conference, Miami Beach, April 2007

“Bitter Grounds: Women and the Coffee Houses,” Department of English Conference on the Eighteenth Century Public Sphere, the University of Chicago, December 2003


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