Antonio Monte Casablanca is currently a DAAD fellow, doctoral student at the Freie Universität Berlin and researcher at the Department of History of the LAI in the winter semester 2021/ 22. He worked as a researcher and associated professor at the Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica de la Universidad Centroamericana en Managua (IHNCA-UCA) for eight years.

His research interests laie in tourism, music and folklore, authoritarianism and business elites in Nicaragua, as well as in Central America, among others. He has published articles about these topics and contributions in volumes about history and culture in Central America. His doctoral thesis examines the history of tourism in Nicaragua during the Somoza dictatorship (1936-1979).

Recent publications:

Articles in peer review journals:

• Monte Casablanca, Antonio (2021). “‘Notes and Letters’: Music of the City in Flight / Trans-Migratory Poetry.” Translated by Crystal Neill, Amanda Minks & Lila Ellen Gray. Ethnomusicology Translations, no. 11: 1–29. https://doi.org/10.14434/emt.No.11.32396.
• Monte Casablanca, Antonio, Amanda Minks & Helga Zambrano (Eds.) (2020). “Entre música, sonido y cultura en Centroamérica”. Sociedad de Etnomusicología 24. Trans-Revista Transcultural de Música. https://www.sibetrans.com/trans/public/docs/1d-final-trans-2020_1.pdf.
• Monte Casablanca, Antonio & Juan Pablo Gómez. (15 May 2020). “Autoritarismo, violencia y élites en Nicaragua. Reflexiones sobre la crisis (2018-2019).” Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos 46: 1–29. https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/anuario/article/view/41830/42213.

Articles in books and collections:

• Monte Casablanca, Antonio. (2020). “Tradición autoritaria y élites en Nicaragua.” In Anhelos de un nuevo horizonte: Aportes para una Nicaragua democrática, edited by Alberto Cortés Ramos, Umanzor López Baltodano & Ludwing Moncada Bellorin, 507–24. San José: FLACSO-Costa Rica.

Book:

• Monte Casablanca, A. (2017). Paisaje/Sujeto/Nación: Turismo e inversión en Nicaragua (1892-1940). Managua: IHNCA-UCA. Summary at www.ihnca.edu.ni/publicacion.php/224. 

Articles in magazines and websites:

• “‘Maldito país’ o la ‘tierra de lagos y volcanes’: ¡Visítenos!”. Hora Cero (Blog),  15 December 2020. www.horacero.org/tierra-de-lagos-y-volcanes.
• “El duelo como antídoto contra el autoritarismo.” Hora Cero (Blog), 2 May 2019.
• “El día que la música murió.” Managua Furiosa, abril 2019. www.managuafuriosa.com/el-dia-que-la-musica-murio/?fbclid=IwAR3CPVRpeRIUt-akYWEehhOrwryrgD3FMd-u-SnM7R_tLFdjJhHPfcjH43o.