JUAN CARLOS SARAZUA PEREZ

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Departament d’Humanitats

Ramon Trias Farga 25-27

Barcelona 08005

Spain

E-mail: jc.sarazua@upf.edu

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Nationality: Guatemalan

Place of Birth: Guatemala City, Guatemala

Age: 28

EDUCATION

Ph.D. candidate, History, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, degree expected 2014.

Advisor: Juan Carlos Garavaglia

Dissertation Subject: State Building in Latin America: The Case of Guatemala

M.A.Program in World History, Pompeu Fabra University Master’s Thesis: “Direct contributions, taxes and State in Guatemala, 1790-1854” April 2010

Licenciatura in History, University of San Carlos, Guatemala City, 2007. Thesis: “Territoriality, Commerce and Conflict in Eastern Guatemala, Santa Rosa, 1750-1871”.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Junior Researcher, “State Building in Latin America” (European Research Council Advanced Grant), Pompeu Fabra University, 2009 to present

Researcher, Photo Archives, Center for Regional Research on Mesoamerica (CIRMA), Antigua, Guatemala, 2007-2008. Responsibilities included: Carried out research needed in order to describe photographic and other repositories related to the Armed Internal Conflict (1960-1996)

Researcher, Catalogue of Notary Public Archives Project, General Archive of Central America, Guatemala City, 2005. Responsibilities included: In charge of historical research necessary for writing the institutional history of the collection, which would then serve as a source to formulate the archival description of the same material (following ISAD-G norms)

PUBLICATIONS

“Territoriality, Commerce and Conflict in Eastern Guatemala, Santa Rosa, 1750-1871”, currently under consideration for publication.

“Valorización y apropiación de tierras en La Montaña, Guatemala, 1750-1840.” Boletín de la Asociación para el Fomento de Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica 39 ( December 2008)

“Biografía de Serapio Cruz” in the “Biographical Dictionary of Central America.” Boletín de la Asociación para el Fomento de Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica 37 (August 2008)

“Biografía del Brigadier Antonino Solares.” Boletín de la Asociación para el Fomento de Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica 32 (October 2007)

“Codicillo del Brigadier Antonino Solares.” Boletín de la Asociación para el Fomento de Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica 29 (Abril 2007)

“Centralización política y construcción territorial en Guatemala: el departamento de Santa Rosa (1840-1871).” Diálogos, Revista Electrónica de Historia 8: 2 (2007)

PRESENTATIONS

Congresses

“Territorialidad, comercio y conflicto al Este de Guatemala: Santa Rosa, 1750-1871” Mesa de Historia Política, VIII Congreso Centroamericano de Historia. Antigua Guatemala, 10 de Julio de 2006.

“Formación y expansión de la burocracia federal y estatal en Centroamérica, 1823-1849”, en workshop Estado y burocracia en América Latina, siglo XIX, organizado por State Building in Latin America, Universitat Pompeu Fabra y Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, 19 de agosto de 2010.

LANGUAGES

Spanish: native language

English: Reading

French: Reading