Louie Dean Valencia
NEH Distinguished Professor in the Humanities
Texas Center for Public History, Director
Associate Professor of Digital History
Email: lvalencia@txstate.edu
Socials: Instagram & Twitter
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Europe; Spain, youth; digital history and media, music, film, and visual culture; popular culture and celebrity; public history and historical memory; urban spaces and the environment
Academic Research
Dr. Louie Dean Valencia is the NEH Distinguished Professor in the Humanities for 2024-2027. He is an internationally recognized researcher and speaker and organizes “Night of Ideas” at Texas State—a project by the Texas Center for Public History and the Embassy of France. The programming brings together community leaders, innovators, artists, students, and scholars for a night of ideas, music, art, film, dialogue, and workshops focused on topics related to digital technology, media, A.I., the environment, and youth culture.
Dr. Valencia studies how young people create social change through technology, art, counterculture, social media, celebrity, and in public spaces. His books include Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History (2020) and Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain (2018). He is a member of the Emotions in European Politics network and serves on the editorial boards of Popular Culture Review, Modern History of Politics and Violence, and Revista Internacional de Estudios sobre Terrorismo. He is editor for a forthcoming series on counterculture.
Personal Background
Dr. Valencia earned a Ph.D. in Early and Late Modern European History from Fordham University in New York City. He has taught at Harvard University and received fellowships and grants from United States Library of Congress, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spanish Ministry of Education, the American Council of Learned Societies, and Santander Bank, amongst others.
At the Museum of the City of New York, he curated temporary exhibitions and contributed to the permanent exhibition, New York at Its Core. He has worked as a digital strategy analyst/consultant on major digital projects and campaigns, including PepsiCo., Patrón, LOFT, and GOOP.
Select Publications
Longer Works
- Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism, Bloomsbury Academic, May 2018.
- Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, Routledge 2020.
- “Imagining, Thinking, and Teaching Europe” in EuropeNow (2020).
Select Journal Articles
- “Images and Ethics in Social Media Research.” Article in First Monday. Nicole Taylor, Louie Dean Valencia, Alejandro Allen. 2023.
- “Pluralism at the Twilight of Franco’s Spain: Antifascist Practice and Methodologies.” Article in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. Brill, 2020.
- “Locating Dictatorship in the Anthropocene: Historiographic Trends in the History of Science and Technology and the Study of European Authoritarianism.” State-of-the-field essay in Contemporary European History, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Select Book Chapters
- “European Histories, Australian Anxieties: The Christchurch Killer in Context.” In The Politics of Replacement Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars. Jack Wilson and Louie Dean Valencia, edited By Sarah Bracke, Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar. London: Routledge, 2023.
- “MMMBop: From Analogue to Digital, Oklahoma to the Internet.” In One-Track Mind: Capitalism, Technology, and the Art of the Pop Song, edited by Asif Siddiqi. New York: Palgrave, 2022.
- “Empire and Civil Rights in Franco’s Spain.” In Rethinking Spain’s Atlantic Empire in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Scott Eastman, Vicente Sanz Rozalén, Stephen Jacobson. New York City: Berghahn, 2021.
Courses Taught
Graduate
- Digital History (HIST 5375N)
- European Fascisms and Historical Memory (HIST 5318F)
- The Practice of Public History (HIST 5371)
- General Research Seminar (HIST 5398)
Undergraduate
- Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity (Honors 3399Q)
- Rebels and Power in Renaissance Spain, 1492 to 1700 (HIST 3332)
- Dictatorships and Democracy in Modern Spain, 1808 to Present (HIST 3333)
- The Myths of Western Civilization (HON 3399F)
- Podcasting European History (HIST 3301)
- Western Civilization, 1715 to Date (HIST 2320)
- Youth Culture and Digital Archives (HIST 3302)