Ruth Llobet

Ruth de Llobet holds a PhD in Southeast Asian History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at KITLV, Leiden, the Netherlands, a FASS Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a former postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai. Previously, she taught at the University Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include Southeast Asian history; the political and constitutional history of the Philippines; Asian interconnections, networks, and colonial elites; and the age of revolution in an Asian and global context.

On those subjects, she has published several articles, including: "El poeta, el regidor y la amante: Manila y la emergencia de una identidad criolla filipina" (2009), “Chinese Mestizo and Native’s Disputes in Manila and the 1812 Constitution: Old Privileges and New Political Realities, 1813-1815” (2014); “Luis Rodríguez Varela: Literatura panfletaria criollista en los albores del liberalismo en Filipinas, 1790-1824” (2018) as well as “Spanish Filipinos in Spain’s Constitutional Assembly (1810-1814): Trade and Politics in a Hispanic Border in Southeast Asia” (Forthcoming 2021). She is one of the co-authors of the book Los Roxas. Filipinas en el siglo XIX a través de una familia hispano-filipina (2020) and she is currently working on two manuscripts.

Education

• Ph D. History University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001 — 2010)
• MA Universitat Pompeu Fabra (1996 — 2000)
• B.A. Universitat de Barcelona (1991 — 1996)

Companies

• Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of History New York University Shanghai (2021)
• Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of History New York University Shanghai (2020 — 2021)
• Adjunct Professor Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2019 — 2020)
• Instructor Casa Asia (2019 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Fellow New York University Shanghai (2017 — 2017)
• Researcher Universitat Pompeu Fabra - UPF (2016 — 2017)
• Postdoctoral Fellow National University of Singapore (2013 — 2015)
• Postdoctoral Fellow University of Leiden - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (2010 — 2011)
• Researcher Assistant University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009 — 2010)

Skills

• Proofreading
• Public Speaking
• Lecturing

Other

Politics, French, Qualitative Research, Analysis, International Relations, English, University Teaching, Spanish, Higher Education, Research, History, Teaching