Dr. Florentino Rodao García           

                                                          CURRICULUM VITAE

 E-mail

tinorodao (at) ccinf.ucm.es

 I) Degrees.

15 January 1993

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

Ph.D. in Contemporary History

March 1995

University of Tokyo. Faculty of Humanities. Dept. of Area Studies (地域文化研究。教養学部。東京大学)

(課程修了) Ph.D. Candidate. Area Studies. (地域文化研究)

7 December 2006

University of Tokyo. Dept. of Area Studies

Ph. D. in Arts and Sciences. (学術博士)

 II)  Teaching Experience

2007-Present

Dept. History of Social Communication. Faculty of Journalism. UCM

Associate Professor

History of the 20th Century

Master Course

Ph.D. Course

2005-2007

Id.

Assistant Professor

History of the 20th Century

History of Social Communication

2004

Faculty of Humanities. Universidad Carlos III, Getafe, Madrid

Adjunct Professor

Revolution, Nationalism and Capitalism in Vietnam

The perception of the “other:” Mutual visions between Spain and Japan

Course 1998-99

History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tinker Fellow

Iberia in the Pacific and Axis Alliance and World War II

1997-1999

International Relations Dept. Faculty of Sociology. UCM. Madrid.

Ph. D. Program “International Relations”

Images and Perceptions in Japanese Foreign Policy

1996-2000

Id.

Assistant Professor

Int. Relations in the Asia-Pacific Area

Japanese Culture

Course 1993-94

Keiô University.  慶応大学Tokyo

Adjunct Professor

Spanish Language

July-August 1992.

Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City

Visiting Professor

Spain in the 19th and 20th Centuries

 

 

 

 

III) STAYS IN RESEARCH CENTRES

 

2005

Tokyo

University of Tokyo. Faculty of Humanities. Dept. of Area Studies

Self-financed

Ph. Dissertation Final Draft

2002-2003

Tokyo

Id.

Visiting Fellow (客員研究員). Financed by Japan Foundation, 13PE-1434

Spanish Community in the Philippines, 1935-45

2000

Canberra, ACT

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS). Australian National University (ANU)

Research Fellow

Spanish Contacts in the Pacific

1994 - 1995

U.S.A:

Washington DC, Poughkeepsie, NY; Stanford, CA; Berkeley, CA; New York City and others

Philippines: 

Manila, Cebu, Negros Island,

Japan:

Tokyo

- National Archives and Records Administration, Roosevelt Presidential Library, Truman Presidential Library, Library of Congress, Hoover institution for War, Revolution and Peace, University of Columbia Archives, Stanford University Library

- American Library, University of San Carlos Archives, Library of the University of the Philippines, Archives of the Ateneo de Manila University.

- Archives of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Library of the Diet, Archives of the Self-Defence Agency.

 

 Research financed by Toyota Foundation

Grant 93-1-116

The Diminishing Role of the Spanish Community in the Philippines, with a Focus on the Periods of American and Japanese Rule.

1991

Mangilao, Guam

Micronesian Area Research Center. University of Guam

Associate Member

Spanish Culture in the Pacific

1992-95

Tokyo

University of Tokyo. Faculty of Humanities. Dept. of Area Studies (地域文化研究。教養学部。東京大学)

Ph.D. Student

 

1990-1992

Tokyo

Id.

Researcher (研究生)

Japan’s Foreign Relations

 

V) Other Appointments

2007

Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange.

Grant to the research on “Spanish Experience in Northern Taiwan (1626-1642)” Principal Investigator, José Eugenio Borao. Member of the  research group.

 

1007-2010

Spanish Ministry of Education. Department of Universities and Research. Ref. : CCG06-UCM/HUM-1048

 

Grant to the research on “Cambio político y transición en la Política Exterior de España (1973-1986)”. Principal investigator, Juan Carlos Pereira. Member of the research group.

 

1999-2002

Spanish Association for Pacific Studies

President (elected)

 

2000

Salzburg Seminar. “Asian Economies: Regional and Global Relationships”.

Fellow. Granted by Fulbright Comission.

 

1995-96

Complutense Institute for Asia. UCM

Deputy Director for Japan Studies

 

1987 - 1989

Colegio Mayor Universitario N.S. África. Madrid

Deputy Director

 

 VI) Main Publications

a. Books authored.

(2002) Franco y el Imperio Japonés. Imágenes y propaganda en tiempos de guerra (Franco’s Spain and the Japanese Empire. Images and Propaganda in a Time of a War). Colección Así Fue, 49 . Barcelona: Plaza & Janés. 669 pp.

(1997) Españoles en Siam, 1540-1939. Una contribución al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (Spaniards in Siam, 1540-1939. A contribution to Research on Spanish Presence in East Asia). Col. History, N. 32. Madrid:

(1997) Españoles en Siam, 1540-1939. Una contribución al estudio de la presencia hispana en Asia Oriental (Spaniards in Siam, 1540-1939. A contribution to Research on Spanish Presence in East Asia). Col. History, N. 32. Madrid: http://cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/sirveobras

 

b. Books edited.

1) English

(2001) The Philippine Revolution of 1896. Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times. Edited with Felice Noelle Rodriguez. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 316 pp.

(1998)  The Pacific Islands: The Spanish Legacy. Madrid: Lumwerg (Spanish and English, bilingual)

(1998) Cuadernos de Historia, Vol. 1. Manila: Instituto Cervantes. (Spanish and English, bilingual)

2) Spanish

(1998) El Japón Contemporáneo (Modern Japan). Co-edited with Antonio López Santos. Salamanca: Universidad de Salamanca. 231 pp.  

(1998) Revista Española del Pacífico, Monophapic issue on “Pacific and Europe: Mutual Perceptions”, in coordination with Carlo A. Caranci. Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico. Vol. 8 (8).

(1989) España y el Pacífico (Spain and the Pacific). Madrid: Instituto de Cooperación para el Desarrollo. 344 pp.

(1989) Estudios sobre Filipinas y las islas del Pacífico [Studies on the Philippines and the Pacific Islands] Madrid: Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico.158 pp

(1988) El Extremo Oriente Ibérico. Investigaciones Históricas: Metodología y Estado de la Cuestión [The Iberian Far East. Historical Research, Methodology and State-of-the-art] (Coordination, with Francisco de Solano and Luis E. Togores) Madrid: AECI & CEH-CSIC. 661 pp.

C. Articles in English

(2008) Departure from Asia: Spain in the Philippines and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Sasha D. Pack, ed.  Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honour of Stanley G. Payne. Madison, WI:  Parallel Press. (forthcoming)

(2007) The Castilians discover Siam: Changing Visions and Self-Discovery. The Journal of the Siam Society (JSS), 95: 1-23.

(2005)  Franco’s Spain and the Japanese Empire (1937-45). Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies.  Lisbon, CHAM, 10/11 (June-Dec): 243-262

(2005) Monsignor Olano, a Bishop in World War II. Micronesian Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences  Albury, Australia: Letao Publishing - Charles Sturt University, 4, 2: 85-101.micronesia.csu.edu.au/MJHSS/Issue2005/MJHSS2005_201.pdf

 (1998) Spanish Companies in the Philippines After the Revolution. The Philippine Revolution and Beyond. Elmer A. Ordóñez, ed. Manila: Philippine Centennial Commission, II: 999-1011.

(1997) Spanish Language in the Philippines: 1900-1940. Philippine Studies, 45 (1): 94-107.

(1995) The Spanish Culture in the Pacific after 1898. Messy Entanglements. The papers of the 10th Pacific History Association Conference. Tarawa. Kiribati. Eds. Alaima Talu & Max Quanchi (eds.) Brisbane: Pacific History Association: 173-179.

(1995) Spanish Falange in the Philippines, 1936-1945. Philippine Studies: 43 (1): 3-27.