Started in 2021, the Venezuela History Network also serves as a tool to better understand the past and as a place to safe-keep the cultural heritage of the country. The foundation aims to become the leading cultural and academic center for the dissemination of historical knowledge in Venezuela.
Founders
Guillermo Guzmán Mirabal
(Caracas, 1967) is a lawyer and Ph.D. in History from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at that same institution. He graduated from Boston University with an MBA. He co-authored Historical Dictionary of Venezuela, published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2018. Guillermo is also the author of Del Acuerdo de Ginebra a la Rebelión del Rupununi. Tres años del proceso de recuperación de la Guayana Esequiba (1966-1969), published by the Academia Nacional de la Historia in 2016.
Marcus Golding
(Caracas, 1990) has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas. In 2016 he graduated from Georgetown University with an M.A. in Latin American Studies. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American history at the University of Texas at Austin. Marcus has participated in several initiatives connected to the digital humanities and public history. Some of them include writing encyclopedia entries for the Texas State Historical Association, book reviews for H-Net and Not Even Past, and collaborating on digitization projects at the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
Personal website: marcusgolding.com
Guillermo Ramos Flamerich
(Caracas, 1991) has a B.A. in Journalism from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and a M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at the CREDA-Sorbonne Nouvelle. In 2015 he became part of the XIII Program of Young Iberoamerican Leaders sponsored by the Fundación Carolina. He has been involved in important preservation initiatives like the project to digitize the personal papers of President Rafael Caldera (1969-1974; 1994-1999). Guillermo’s articles have been featured in several local news media such as Cinco8, Prodavinci, La Gran Aldea, El Universal and Tal Cual.
Staff
Jesús Luces
Major in Economics, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Member of the Academic Association of Economic Analysis. He has earned diplomas in Contemporary History of Venezuela from the Rómulo Betancourt Foundation, Political Leadership from the Universidad Metropolitana, and Markets and Government from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. He is in charge of digitizing colonial volumes for the «History of Afro-Venezuelan Slaves Project».
Gloria Márquez
Historian and professor, graduated from the School of Library Science at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. She currently works at the Newspaper Collections of the Academia Nacional de la Historia. Experienced in paleography, she is in charge of metadata creation for the «History of Afro-Venezuelan Slaves Project».
Diego Madriz
Major in Economics, Universidad Central de Venezuela. Diego is currently a member of the Genesis Academy Summer Institute, a program of the Genesis at the Crossroads, a Chicago based non-profit. He has experience in different fields, including project management and social media management. At the Venezuela History Network Diego has collaborated in the creation of metadata for the digital collections.
Zully Chacón
Historian at the Research Department of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de Venezuela. Experienced in paleography, she is in charge of metadata creation for the «History of Afro-Venezuelan Slaves Project».
Andrés Eloy Burgos Gutiérrez
History profesor, Instituto Pedagógico de Caracas. M.A. in History of Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. He currently works as an independent researcher and editor of books. Andrés is involved with the Venezuela History Network in the transcription of paleographic documentation and metadata creation for the «History of Afro-Venezuelan Slaves Project».
Kristo Ramírez Muñoz
Undergraduate student at the Department of Archaeology and Historical Anthropology – School of Anthropology, Central University of Venezuela. Kristo is in charge of the generation of metadata for the digital platform of the network. He also collaborates in the areas of paleography and descriptors for the project “The History of Afro-Venezuelan Slaves”.