Alfonso Mendiz Noguero

Corresponding Member

Human Sciences: PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences

Date of admission: December 18, 2023

Admission speech: “The Anthropology of Ibero-America: Past and Present”

Reply speech: H.E. Dr. Ángel Aguirre Baztán, PhD in Philosophy and Arts

DR. ÁNGEL-BALDOMERO ESPINA BARRIO

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Salamanca.
  • Director of the Inter-University PhD Programme in Ibero-American Anthropology (1997–2022), supervising 80 doctoral graduates.
  • Director of the Official EEES Master’s in Ibero-American Anthropology (1997–2022), with 220 graduates.
  • President of the Spanish Society of Applied Anthropology.
  • President of the Institute of Anthropological Research of Castile and León.
  • Guest lecturer at more than 40 universities in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
  • Academic director of numerous research projects.
  • Organizer and speaker at 31 international conferences.
  • Supervisor of 71 completed doctoral theses.
  • Coordinator of 3 international university networks.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Author of 28 books, including Freud y Lévi-Strauss (translated into Portuguese and Chinese) and Manual de Antropología cultural (translated into Portuguese), both recipients of multiple awards.
  • 37 book chapters and 90 published articles.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Director of the Revista Euroamericana de Antropología (REA).
  • Honorary Professor at Ricardo Palma University (Lima, Peru).
  • Honorary Professor at FaCiencia Faculty (Curitiba, Brazil).
  • Member of the Historical and Geographical Institutes of Santa Catarina and Lages (Brazil).
  • Doctor Honoris Causa by the Mesoamerican University of San Cristóbal de Las Casas (Mexico).
  • Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED).