PAULA A. DE LA CRUZ-FERNÁNDEZ Curriculum Vitae February 2017 padelacruzf@gmail.com +1(786) 385 7318 (USA) skype: paula.de.la.cruz Dissertation title: Atlantic Threads: Singer in Spain and Mexico, 1860-1940 Awarded best dissertation at Florida International University, Summer 2013. EDUCATION Ph.D. in History May 2013. Florida International University. Committee: Dr. Aurora Morcillo and Dr. Kenneth Lipartito (co-major professors, FIU), Dr. Bianca Premo (FIU), Dr. Mira Wilkins (FIU), and Dr. Jesus Cruz (University of Delaware) MA. in Anthropology, June 2007. University of Granada, Granada, Spain. BA. in History, June 2005. University of Granada, Granada, Spain. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (2017-Present) Project Manager Isabel Briggs Myers Papers Collection at the University of Florida. (2014-2017) Collections Coordinator at Miami Beach Digital Archive. (2014-Present) Online instructor of World History since 1000, Western Civilization (since 1789), and Women and Gender in Europe since 1789. (2014-2015) Digital Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Florida International University. (2013-2014) Post-Doctoral Fellowship. International Research Center Work and Human Lifecycle in Global Perspective, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. PUBLICATIONS Books Proposal to be submitted, Atlantic Threads: Singer, Culture, and Global Capitalism. Articles Multinationals and Gender: Singer Sewing Machine and Marketing in Mexico, 1890-1930, Business History Review, 89 (2015): 531-549. Marketing the Hearth: Ornamental Embroidery and the Building of the Multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company, Enterprise and Society 15, 3 (2014): 442-471. Book chapters Co-author of The Modern Spain Sourcebook, London: Bloomsbury, Forthcoming 2017. Forging the Modern World: Singer s Global Marketing Strategies, in the Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, Routledge, Forthcoming 2017. Embroidering the Nation: The Culture of Sewing and the Spanish Ideologies of Domesticity, 1930-1950, in Aurora Morcillo (ed.) Cultural and Social Memory of the Spanish Civil War. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill
Editorial, 2013. Interviews An Interview with Mira Wilkins. Resource done for the Business History Conference. Forthcoming 2017. Biographic entries Biography entry; Isaac M. Singer, 1811-1875. Immigrant Entrepreneurship. German-American Business Biographies, 1720 to the Present. Vol 2, 2014. Website project http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/ Book reviews Paloma Fernández Pérez. La última globalización y el renacer de los grandes negocios familiares en el mundo. Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, 2012. Jones, Geoffrey and Lluch, Andrea. El impacto histórico de la globalización en Chile y Argentina: empresas y empresarios. Argentina: Temas, 2011. Investigaciones de historia económica, 2012, vol. 82 (3). San Román, Elena. Ildefonso Fierro: la aventura de un emprendedor. Madrid: LID, 2011. Enterprise and Society, September 2011, 12 (3). Graubart, Karen B. With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. The Atlantic Millennium: A Graduate History Journal on Atlantic Civilization, Vol. 10, Spring 2010. Molinero, Carmen. La captación de las masas. Política social y propaganda en el regimen franquista. Madrid: Cátedra, 2005. The Atlantic Millennium: A Graduate History Journal on Atlantic Civilization, Vol. 8, Spring 2008 GRANTS AND AWARDS 2016 Research Associate at Center for Business History in Scotland, declined. 2015 Mira Wilkins Award in International Business History for the article Marketing to the Hearth: Ornamental Embroidery and the Building of the Multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company, Enterprise and Society (2014). 2013 Henry Du Pont Dissertation Fellowship. Hagley Museum and Library. 2011 and 2012 Hagley Museum and Library Exploratory Grants. 2011 and 2012 Morris and Anita Broad Research Fellowships, Florida International University. 2010 and 2011 Tinker Field Research Grant. 2011-2012 Dissertation Evidence Acquisition Award, Florida International University. 2011 Wolfsonian-Mellon Fellowship, declined.
2010 Golden Key Research Grant. 2010 3 rd place Prize at the 8 th Annual Latin American and Caribbean Graduate Students Conference for Patterning the Other : Sewing Machines in the Age of the American Empire. 2010 Kauffman Doctoral Assistant Award. Pino Global Entrepreneurship Center, Florida International University, College of Arts & Sciences. 2010 Beca de Postgrado, Fundación Mutua Madrileña, Madrid. 2009 Snell Prize for best paper in European History at the Southern Historical Association for "The Culture of Sewing in Spain: A Cultural Approach to the Shaping of Spanish Ideology of Domesticity. 2008 Summer Graduate Research Grant from the Women Studies Center at Florida International University. INVITED TALKS La creación de la marca Singer en España a finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX. Invited presentation as part of the research project: La marca y su historia: valor económico, empresarial y social, CEMU 2012-2014. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid. Spain. September 21, 2013. CONFERENCE AND PANELS ORGANIZATION Multinationals and the organization of work, International Research Center Work and Human Lifecycle in Global Perspective, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. April 9-10, 2015. Main convenor with Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar. Latin American Studies Association, 2013, Panel organizer: Managing Modernity: Multinationals in Latin America, Paper Presentation: Stitching Regional Markets: Singer in Mexico, 1860-1910, 2013 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Panel organizer: Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Mexico. Paper presentation: Marketing to the Hearth: Singer in Mexico, 186-1900s. 2011. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS American Historical Association. Conference on Latin American History, Electric Home Sewing: Singer Electric Sewing Machines in Transnational Perspective. January 2015. Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Negotiating Modernity: Singer in Spain, 1890-1905, 2013 Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Hilvanando Modernity: Singer in Spain, 1860-1898 2012 Oxford Journal Dissertation Colloquium at the Business History Conference. Prospectus seminar, 2011.
Harvard University 3 rd Graduate Students Conference on the History of Capitalism. Capitalism in the Home: Singer in Spain and Mexico, 1870-1907, 2011. Business History Conference. Patterning the Other : Sewing Machines in the Age of American Empire, 2010. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Florida International University Dual Enrollment Mentor (Fall 2016) U.S. History. Adjunct Professor (Fall 2014 and Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2017) World History, 1000-Present. Women and Gender in Europe, 1750-1950. Europe since 1945. Western Civilization, since 1750. Teaching Assistant in the Department of History (Fall 2007- Summer 2013) World History, 1789-1968. Modern American History, 1783-2010. Latin American History, 1500-2000. Modern European History, from the French Revolution to 1989 European History, 1500s to 1700s. Online courses: World History, 1789-1968, Women and Gender in Europe, 1789-1950, and Latin American History, 1500-2000. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant. Dr. Kenneth Lipartito, October 2010 - May 2011. Dr. Bianca Premo, September - October 2010. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Referee for Enterprise and Society, Revista Avances del Censor, and Management and Organizational History. Member of the Business History Conference's Austin Kerr Prize Committee, for 2015-2018. Business History Group Executive Member since 2014. The BHG is a consulting organization that conducts historical research for companies, institutions, families and non-profit organizations. http://www.businesshistorygroup.com President, Treasurer and Conference Organizer of Women Studies Graduate Students Association, 2008-2010. Webmaster, editor and member of the Department of History Graduate Students Association, 2009-2010. President of the Commission of the Americas and Modern History Department of the University of Granada, 2004-2005. LANGUAGES Spanish native. English fluent, academic. Portuguese can read with dictionary.
French can read with dictionary.