CV
Academic Positions
2016-present
Associate Professor
Department of History
California State University Fullerton
2015-2016
Max Weber Fellow
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2013-2015
Assistant Professor (Contractually Limited Appointment)
Department of History
York University, Toronto, Canada
Degrees
2012
Ph.D. (History)
York University, Toronto
- Dissertation: “Deepening Democracy: The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights and Belonging in Spain since 1975”
- Graduate Diploma in Refugee and Migration Studies
2002
M.Sc. (Nationalism and Ethnicity)
London School of Economics, London, UK
2001
M.A. (Political Science - Diploma de Estudios Avanzados)
University of Valencia, Spain
2001
Honours B.A. (History)
University of Valencia
1997
LL.B.
University of Valencia
Publications
Books
- Guia, Aitana. The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain: Promoting Democracy through Migrant Engagement, 1985-2010. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2014. Reviewed in Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
- Guia, Aitana. La llengua negociada. El manteniment del conflicte polític sobre la llengua (The Bargained Language: Maintaining Political Conflict on Catalan Language). Valencia: Tres i Quatre, 2001. Reviewed in Caràcters 19 and Lletres valencianes 13.
Refereed Articles
- Guia, Aitana, “Completing the Religious Transition? Muslims and Catholics Navigate Secularism in Democratic Spain,” New Diversities 17, 1 (2015): 95-110, special issue on “Engaging with the Other: Religion, Identity, and Politics in the Mediterranean”. http://newdiversities.mmg.mpg.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015_17-01_07_Guia.pdf Winner of the 2017 James F. Woodward Faculty Achievement Award, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton
- Guia, Aitana. “De lenguas y horizontes. Europa vista por sus escritores inmigrantes de cultura islámica” (“Of Languages and Horizons: Europe Seen by its Muslim Writers”) Extravío. Revista electrónica de literatura comparada 5 (2010) at: www.uv.es/extravio/extravio_web.html.
- Guia, Aitana. “Molts mons, una sola llengua. La narrativa en català escrita per immigrants” (“Many Worlds, One Language: Catalan Literature Written by Immigrants”). Quaderns de Filologia. Estudis literaris 12 “Cruzando la Frontera” (2007): 229-248.
Refereed Chapters
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Guia, Aitana. "Migrations." In The History of Modern Spain: Chronologies, Themes, Individuals, edited by José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert, London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-history-of-modern-spain-9781472592002/
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Guia, Aitana. “Nativism, Gendered Islamophobia and Muslim Activism in Spanish North Africa”. In North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance, Institutions and Culture, edited by Muriam Haleh Davis and Thomas Serres, 133-154. London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2018
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Guia, Aitana. “Politically Active Muslim Women: Embracing Citizenship and Feminism in Democratic Spain.” In Observing Islam in Spain, edited by Ana I. Planet and Angeles Ramirez. Leiden: Brill, 2018
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Guia, Aitana. “Ni tan lejos, ni tan cerca. Las migraciones en la España contemporánea.” In Historia de España contemporánea: Cronologías, temas, e individuos, edited by José Álvarez Junco and Adrian Shubert, Madrid: Galaxia Gutemberg, 2018
Working Papers
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Guia, Aitana. “The Concept of Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Sentiments in Europe,” EUI Working Paper MWP 2016/20. Working Paper, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Max Weber Postdoctoral Program, September 2016 at: http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/43429/MWP_2016_20.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.