Presentation for the Dossier: 'Anarquist women. Between local and transnational.'
Author Biographies
Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Universitat Jaume I
Titular Professor at the Universitat Jaume I. PhD in History (UJI, 2007. Extraordinary Award). Her lines of research focus on the history of anarchism in Cuba in the first decades of the twentieth century and slavery in the nineteenth century. She is the author of CColonialismo y esclavitud según un reformista español. Cuba en Ramón de la Sagra (Premio Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz, 2015, Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, 2016) and embrando ideales. Anarquistas españoles en Cuba (1902-1925) (CSIC, 2008). She also edited with Steve Palmer and José A. Piqueras State of Ambiguity. Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First Republic (Duke University Press, 2014). She has contributed to some twenty collective works on the history of Cuba and anarchism and to international journals such as Arenal (2020), Historia y Política (2019), Caravelle (2018), ACHSC (2017), RUHM (2016), Ayer (2014), Alcores (2013), Historia Social (2007).
Susana Sueiro Seoane, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Professor of Contemporary History at the National University of Distance Education (UNED). Her research focuses on the international networks of anarchism in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, and on the cultural and socialization aspects of immigrant workers who settled in Latin American countries and the USA. Her recent publications include "Una puertorriqueña transnacional: Luisa Capetillo, anarchist and spiritualist (1879-1922)" (in Adriana A. de Figueiredo Fiuza and Gabriela de Lima Grecco, eds., Escrituras de autoría femenina e identidades iberoamericanas, 2020); "Una biblioteca imaginada. Los libros que conformaron la conciencia ácrata en el periodo 'glorioso' del anarquismo (1880-1910)", (in Carmen de la Guardia, Florencia Peyrou and Pilar Toboso, eds, Escribir identidades. Diálogos entre historia y literatura, 2020); and "Racismo en la ‘república modelo’. Obreros latinos en Estados Unidos (1890-1930)" Alcores (25, 2021). She is Principal Investigator of the Research Group on the History of Transnational Anarchism (GIHAT), at UNED, and a member of the Research Project "Identidades en movimiento. Flujos, circulación y transformaciones culturales en el espacio atlántico (Siglos XIX y XX)". PI'S: Pilar Toboso and Carmen de la Guardia (UAM).
