Dr. Nicolás Alejandro González Quintero

Nicolás Alejandro González Quintero is a historian of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World. Currently, he has a post-doctoral fellowship associated to the Atlantic Exiles Project at the Institute of Modern History of the University of Tübingen. He has a post-doctoral position (on leave) at the History Department and the Lab-Mundi research group of the University of São Paulo with a FAPESP fellowship. He obtained a Ph.D. in History from The University of Texas at Austin and subsequently he was a postdoctoral fellow at The Institute for Historical Studies. He has taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Duisburg-Essen.

His research focuses on the Age of Revolution and Modern Latin American History. By delving on the trajectories of loyalist exiles from the Spanish American Revolutions, he examines the reconstitution of empire in the Caribbean as a political alternative to the nascent republican nation-states of Spanish America and the United States in the 19th Century.

​He also holds a M.A in History from The University of Texas at Austin as well as a M.A. in Cultural Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He was born and raised in Colombia.

    • History of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World
    • Age of Revolutions
    • Imperial History
    • Exile and Refuge during the 19th century
    • Spanish Empire

Articles in Journals

• "Struggling Against Independence: Loyalist Exiles’ Views on Imperial Rule during and after the Spanish American Revolutions." Revista Almanack, No. 36, 2024.

• "Envisioning Empire from the U.S: Exile, Constitutional Monarchism, and Ethnic Conflict in post-independence Spanish America." ​The Americas. A Quaterly Review of Latin American History, 2023, 80 (4):537-568.

• "The Monarchical Caribbean: Tomas Wood, Exiles, and Royalist Strongholds during the Spanish American Independence Wars." World History Connected Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2019.

• "El juzgado y los ladrones. Cómo se elaboró un sujeto peligroso en Santafé (1750-1808)." Historia Crítica 42, Septiembre-Diciembre, 2010, 158-181.

• "'Se evita que de vagos pasen a delincuentes': Santafé como una ciudad peligrosa (1750-1808)." Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura, Vol 37 (2), 2010, 17-44.

Contributions to edited volumes

• "Nación, Constitución y familia en La Bandera Tricolor, 1826-1827," en Disfraz y pluma de todos. Opinión pública y cultura política, siglos XVIII y XIX editado por Francisco Ortega y Alexander Chaparro (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Universidad de Helsinki, 2012), pp. 231-261.

• "Monstruosidad y no-ciudadanía: la metáfora de la exclusión en la Nueva Granada, 1780-1814," en Conceptos fundamentales de la cultura política de la Independencia editado por Francisco Ortega y Yobenj Aucardo Chicangana-Bayona (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Universidad de Helsinki, 2012), pp. 353-380.

Essays

• "Political Experimentation in the Age of Global Revolutions." Itinerario. Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions, ​September 2023, pp. 1-13.

Smaller contributions

• Los olvidados, Columna bicentenaria, El Tiempo, 3 de septiembre de 2019.

Book Reviews

• Ink Under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, by Corinna Zeltsman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021), Publishing Research Quaterly.