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Sebastiaan Faber

  • Professor of Hispanic Studies
  • Program Director, Latin American Studies

Education

  • Doctorandus, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1995
  • PhD, University California Davis, 1999

Biography

Sebastiaan Faber has taught at 91直播 since 1999. He is the author of  (Vanderbilt, 2002),  (Palgrave, 2008),  (Vanderbilt, 2018),  (Vanderbilt, 2021, 2nd ed. 2023), translated as  (Pasado & Presente, 2022), and  (Contexto, 2022). He is also co-editor of  (U de Alcal谩, 2009) and  (Liverpool, 2019). From 2010 until 2015 and since 2018, he has served as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), whose quarterly magazine, , he co-edits. Faber regularly contributes to Spanish and U.S. media, including , , , , , , , and .

Spring 2026

Advanced Grammar and Composition 鈥 HISP 304

The Struggle for Modernity 鈥 HISP 310

Latin American Studies Capstone 鈥 LATS 400

Fall 2026

What is Latin America? Issues in Latin American Studies 鈥 LATS 100

So You Want to Be an Intellectual? An Introduction to Academic Journalism 鈥 FYSP 152

The Spanish Revolution, 90 Years Later 鈥 HISP 441

Capstone 鈥 HISP 501

Notes

Sebastiaan Faber Coauthors Analysis of Spain's Parliamentary Elections

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber has coauthored an , which took place on July 23, for the Nation magazine. He also appeared on  and was quoted in articles on the topic in , the ,&苍产蝉辫;惭辞苍迟谤茅补濒'蝉&苍产蝉辫;, and the Dutch venue . The second, revised edition of Prof. Faber's book Exhuming Franco: Spain's Second Transition is due out with Vanderbilt University Press in November.

 

Sebastiaan Faber Publishes Book on Spain's Image; Contributes to Article

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber has published a short book about Spain's international image, , in a series edited by the magazine Contexto. He has also contributed an to a thematic issue of the , published by the AAUP, on recent political challenges to academic freedom in history teaching and research. In October, he about student debt relief in the United States and spoke in a with Jacobin's Eoghan Gilmartin about the Spanish novelist Javier Mar铆as, who died in September.   

Sebastiaan Faber Gives Interviews on New Book

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber has given half a dozen interviews in the Spanish media鈥攊ncluding , , , and national public 鈥攁bout his newly translated book, , which came out in early February. In March, Faber published a piece in The Conversation on the international volunteers in the Ukraine war and Spanish Civil war, in both and .

Renee Romano quoted in Spanish magazine article written by Sebastiaan Faber

Robert S. Danforth Professor of History Renee Romano is quoted at length in a long-form article on the return of "patriotic" history in the United States and Europe, published in the Spanish magazine . The article is authored by Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber.

Sebastiaan Faber coauthors piece for The Nation; is featured in new podcast series

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber has coauthored a piece in  magazine on the Spanish government's decision to pardon nine Catalan leaders who were sent to prison for their involvement in a referendum for independence. Faber, whose new book  (Vanderbilt University Press) came out in April, is also featured in Noiser's new podcast series , narrated by Paul McGann.

Sebastiaan Faber provides analysis of Madrid election

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber and co-author B茅cquer Segu铆n analyze Madrid鈥檚 May 4 regional election, which could shape the future of Spanish politics in an article for The Nation, 鈥溾

Sebastiaan Faber publishes book that explores the legacy of dictator Francisco Franco

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber has published a new book.  (Vanderbilt University Press) explores what is left of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today. For some, the recent exhumation of the dictator's remains from the massive monument in which they'd been buried since his death in 1975 confirmed that Spain is a modern, consolidated democracy. Yet in reality the country is still deeply affected鈥攁nd divided鈥攂y the dictatorial legacies of Francoism.

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber interviewed about Spain's newly proposed memory law.

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber was  by Jacobin Magazine about Spain's newly proposed memory law, a topic about which he published an  last week in the Spanish magazine Contexto. This past month, the same magazine has run Q&As by Faber with journalist  (on Russian meddling in the 2016 elections), photography curator  (on Robert Capa), and author  (on his Susan Sontag biography), all in Spanish.

 

Sebastiaan Faber Interviewed on Spain's Efforts to Alleviate Economic Blow of COVID-19

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber was  about efforts in Spain to alleviate the economic blow of COVID-19 with a form of permanent income for the lowest-earning segments of society. 

Sebastiaan Faber Interviewed about Impact of COVID-19 on Spain

Sebastiaan Faber, professor of Hispanic studies, was interviewed in a segment on the about the impact of COVID-19 on the Spanish public healthcare system.  

Sebastiaan Faber Co-Authors Analysis

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber co-authored a piece in the Nation analyzing the Spanish parliment's vote to install its first progressive coalition government in more than 80 years.

News

Telling Complicated Stories

It鈥檚 been nearly a half-century since the Spanish Nationalist general-turned-fascist dictator Francisco Franco Bahamonde died after close to 40 years in power. That鈥檚 a long time for a country to exist under a dictatorship. But even now, Spaniards can鈥檛 agree on what it all meant or what lingering effects it may have on Spain today 鈥 if they bother to discuss it at all.

Teaching in the New Normal: Professor Sebastiaan Faber

These days, the classroom has taken on new meaning for both faculty and students at 91直播. In this edition of Teaching in the New Normal, Faber explains how a chance film assignment became a fitting discussion piece.