Antonio Montañés is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Sociology & Social Anthropology at University of St Andrews (UK) and Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), ​​ holding a FPI Scholarship from the Spanish government. His doctoral thesis dealt with the interplay between identity and ethnicity and evangelism among Gitano people. Currently he is member of ISOR research group at UAB and previously held a Research Assistant position at University of Aberdeen (UK) and  National University of Ireland (Maynoth) and was a junior researcher in training at Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC – Programa JAE) and Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS-Programa de formació Postgraduats). Throughout his academic training in the degree of Sociology at Carlos III University he was the recipient of several  honourable mentions for outstanding academic performance from the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

2016. Etnicidad e identidad gitana en los cultos pentecostales de la ciudad de Madrid. El caso de la“Iglesia Evangélica de Filadelfia” y el “Centro Cristiano Vino Nuevo el Rey Jesús”. Papeles del CEIC, vol. 2016/2, papel 158, CEIC (Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva), Universidad del País Vasco. http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/765/76547309007.pdf

2015. “Interacciones entre cultura(s) y religión en minorías socio-religiosas. El caso de los musulmanes y evangélicos-pentecostales en España”, en Papeles del CEIC, vol. 2015/3, nº 142, CEIC (Centro de Estudios sobre la Identidad Colectiva), Universidad del País Vasco. https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/artpub/2015/168446/papceic_a2015v3n142iSPA.pdf

2015. (with Pérez-Agote, A. y Santiago, J.). “Catholic church facing ethical challenges in Spain: the regulation of abortion”. En Dobbelaere, K. and Pérez Agote, A. (eds.) The Intimate: New Conflicts between Religion and Polity Laws about Life, Death and the Family in so-called Catholic Countries. Brussels: Editorial Kadoc.

2014. (with Flesher Fominaya, C.). “Transnational diffusion across time: The adoption of the Argentinian Dirty War “escrache” in the context of Spain’s housing crisis”. En Donatella della Porta y Alice Mattoni (eds.). Spreading protest: Social movements in times of crisis. European Consortium for Political Research: ECPR Press.

Ethnic and religious minorities

Romani studies

Collective action

Credits In training Total: 24 Credits for teaching support (1 Credit = 10 hours)

6 Credits for teaching support. 2014/2015. Sociologia General

6 Credits for teaching support. 2013/2014. Sociologia General/Sociologia de la Comunicacion y la opinion publica

6 Credits for teaching support 2012/2103. Introduccion a la Sociologia

6 Credits for teaching support: 2011/2012. Identidad, Cultura y Comunicación. (Máster en Análisis Sociocultural del Conocimiento y la Comunicación/ Introducción a la Sociología/Introducción a la Sociología

Speaker Guest:

I Campus de Verano en Estudios Gitanos. Vicerrectorado de Docencia y profesorado de la Universidad de Jaén y Asociación Sinando Kalí. Universidad de Jaén. Title of training course: La religiosidad contemporánea de los gitanos en España.