Global Historian Focusing on Migration, Minorities, and Nationalism in the Postwar Period

Aitana Guia is an Associate Professor in Modern European History at California State University Fullerton.

In 2015-16, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she was affiliated with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in the thematic research group on Citizenship and Migration.

She specializes in the social and political history of the migrant experience in postwar Europe, nationalism, and Islam in Europe.

She received her Ph.D. in History from York University (2012) and holds an M.Sc. in Ethnicity and Nationalism from the London School of Economics (2002), an M.A. in Political Science (2001), and an LL.B. (1997) from the University of Valencia, Spain.

Her doctoral dissertation, The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain: Promoting Democracy through Migrant Engagement, 1985-2010, was published in 2014 by Sussex Academic Press.

Her current research interests include tracing the origins and comparing nativist discourses in postwar Europe.

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CSUF Titans of Academia. Dr. Guia Creates a Brave Space to Debate History
 

COVID19 CSUF Department of History. How do you cope with virtual instruction and campus closures?
 

ASPHS Meeting Toronto, April 23-26, 2020. “What is a Modern Democratic Garden? And for Whom? Ordinary Spaniards Discuss the Meaning of Urban Gardens and Livable Cities Under Franco”
 

2019 James F. Woodward Article Prize.... Department of History, California State University, Fullerton
 

Talk at CSUF - Dec. 10, 2018, PLS360. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is Turning 70
 

“Completing the Religious Transition? Catholics and Muslims Navigate Secularism in Democratic Spain”. New Article Published in the Journal New Diversities
 

Winner of the Cities and Religions Scholarship. Istituto Sangalli, Florence, Italy
 

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