Department: Arts and Humanities Department

Unit: Culture, creativity, social justice, critical thinking, humanities

Research group: SEC-History Society, State and Culture

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Email: abusquetsa@uoc.edu

Doctor by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the thesis Los tratados históricos, políticos, éticos y religiosos de la monarquía de China (1976) de Domingo Fernández de Navarrete el texto y sus fuentes 2008. Supervised by Dr. Maria Dolors Folch Fornesa.

Holder of a doctoral degree in History (2008, Pompeu Fabra University), master's degree in History (1998, UPF) and bachelor's degree in Humanities (1996, UPF). Associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), which she joined in 2003 to design and launch the second cycle llicenciatura in East Asian Studies. From 2003 to 2008 she was director of the East Asian Studies programme, and from 2008 to 2013 deputy director of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Planning. From 2018 to 2022 she was director of the Master's Degree in Contemporary History and Today's World (UB, UOC). Since 2018 she has been the associate dean for teaching in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She was an adjunct instructor at Pompeu Fabra University (1999-2011) and its ESCI International Business School (2000-2013), and has also been serving in this role on the Master's Degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Granada since the 2014/2015 academic year. She has also completed Erasmus teaching stays at the University of Lausanne (2011 and 2012) and the Sapienza University of Rome (2016). She is a researcher on the R&I projects "Information networks and loyalty: territorial mediators in the global construction of the Spanish Monarchy (1500-1700)" (directed by I. Mauro and D. Sola) and "Urban cultures and resistance in the Modern Age: actors and spaces" (directed by S. Truchuelo and M. Torres). She is also a member of Mundus, a modern history research group at the University of Cantabria.