Meet Our Leadership Team
Our leadership team brings diverse perspectives and extensive expertise to our mission.
Executive Committee
The dedicated individuals who guide our organization's vision and operations
Ricardo Padrón
President
Ricardo Padrón is Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of The Indies of the Setting Sun (Chicago 2020) and serves on the Governing Board of the Renaissance Society of America.
Marlon James Sales
Secretary
Marlon James Sales is Associate Professor at the Department of European Languages of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, where he teaches and researches translation history, translation theory and practice, literary multilingualism, and Hispanofilipino literatures and cultures.
Marie Duggan
Treasurer
Marie Christine Duggan holds a PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research and teaches Business & Society at Keene State College in New Hampshire. She researches 18th and 19th trade between Manila, California and New Spain (later Mexico). In 2023, she published 'From Bourbon Reform to Open Markets in California, 1801-1821' in the Journal of Evolutionary Studies in Business and 'Las redes de comercio de contrabando en el Golfo de California entre 1665 y 1701 como motora de la expansión jesuita' (Contraband Trade Networks in the Gulf of California, 1665-1701 as Drivers of Jesuit Expansion) in a volume edited by Guillermina del Valle Pavón, Contrabando, redes de negocios y corrupción en Hispanoamérica, siglos XVII-XIX.
Yangyou Fang
Social Media Chair
Yangyou Fang studies the multi-ethnic Asian migratory communities under Spanish colonialism, especially the intellectual and religious agency against early forms of racialized violence. Her work appeared in Cervantes Global, the recent Spanish Pacific reader and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Race, including the first complete critical translation and analysis of the 1598 letter from Chinese merchants in Manila to Philip II of Spain.
Daniel Orizaga Doguim
Webmaster
Ph.D. Student at the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of British Columbia. Coeditor of SINCRONÍAS BARROCAS (SIGLOS XVI-XVIII). Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa (with Kristyl Obispado, 2024), author of La escritura del pliegue. Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Ensayo de restitución (2012).
Board Members
Our esteemed board members who provide strategic guidance and oversight
Christina Lee
Board Member
Christina Hyo-Jung Lee is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Christina Lee’s research focuses on the literary, social, and cultural productions of Iberian Spain and the Spanish Transpacific during the early modern period. She is the author of Saints of Resistance: Devotions in the Philippines under Early Spanish Rule (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Diego Javier Luis
Board Member
Diego Javier Luis is the Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Harvard University Press, 2020) and the co-creator of The Historian's Table podcast.
Kristie Flannery
Board Member
Kristie Patricia Flannery is a historian of the global Spanish empire. She has a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and is a senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University in Naarm (Melbourne). Her book <<Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (Penn Press)>> was published in 2024.
Tatiana Seijas
Board Member
Tatiana Seijas writes about global migrations, long-distance trade, urban economies, and the joined history of freedom and slavery.