LOUIE DEAN VALENCIA

NEH Distinguished Professor in the Humanities   
Texas Center for Public History, Director   
Associate Professor of Digital History
Email: lvalencia@txstate.edu   
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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 鈥溾�� at Texas State鈥攁 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 (2020) and (2018). He is a member of the network and serves on the editorial boards of Popular Culture Review, , and . 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., Patr贸n, LOFT, and GOOP.

Select Publications

Longer Works

  • , Bloomsbury Academic, May 2018.
  • , Routledge 2020.
  • 鈥溾�� in EuropeNow (2020).

Select Journal Articles

  • 鈥�.鈥� Article in First Monday. Nicole Taylor, Louie Dean Valencia, Alejandro Allen. 2023.
  • 鈥�.鈥� Article in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. Brill, 2020.
  • 鈥�.鈥� State-of-the-field essay in Contemporary European History, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Select Book Chapters

  • 鈥淓uropean Histories, Australian Anxieties: The Christchurch Killer in Context.鈥� In . Jack Wilson and Louie Dean Valencia, edited By Sarah Bracke, Luis Manuel Hern谩ndez Aguilar. London: Routledge, 2023.
  • 鈥淢MMBop: From Analogue to Digital, Oklahoma to the Internet.鈥� In , edited by Asif Siddiqi. New York: Palgrave, 2022.
  • 鈥淓mpire and Civil Rights in Franco鈥檚 Spain.鈥� In , edited by Scott Eastman, Vicente Sanz Rozal茅n, 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)