Francisco Eissa Barroso

Biography

Dr Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso (Mexico City, 1980) is a political historian of early modern Spanish America and the broader Spanish world. While reading for his first degree, in Political Science and International Relations at CIDE in Mexico, he developed an interest in the history of Latin America’s early nineteenth-century political though and constitutionalism. This eventually led him to shift his focus towards the political practices and traditions of the early modern Spanish world, initially as a prerequisite for understanding the lenses through which Independence-era Latin Americans read north-Atlantic political theory, and later on on its own merit. His doctoral work at the University of Warwick (PhD in History 2011) explored the changing political culture of early eighteenth-century political actors at the heart of the Spanish Monarchy through an analysis of the reform of the system of viceregal rule across the Spanish world. His first monograph, on the creation of the viceroyalty of New Granada (modern-day Colombia) between 1717 and 1739, will be published by Brill in October 2016. He is currently working on a project exploring the impact which the militarization of provincial governorships during the first half of the eighteenth century had on the lives and careers of royal agents in Spanish America and on the societies they governed. With Enrique Florescano, Frank is co-author of Atlas Histórico de México(Mexico City: Aguilar, 2008), and with Ainara Vázquez Varela, co-editor of Early Bourbon Spanish America: Politics and Society in a Forgotten Era (1700-1759) (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013). Before joining SPLAS in 2013, Frank taught Latin American history at the universities of Warwick and Manchester, in the UK, and at CIDE and El Colegio de Michoacán, in Mexico.

Qualifications

• Lecturer in Latin American History, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2013-
• CONACyT Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora, Michoacán, Mexico, 2012-13

- Teaching Fellow in Latin American History, Department of History and School of Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick, 2011-12

IAS-Santander Early Career Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, 2010-11

• PhD in History, University of Warwick, 2011

• MA (by Research) in History, University of Warwick, 2007

• Licenciatura [BA] in Political Science and International Relations, CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), 2004