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Email: wgh23@cam.ac.uk听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Supervisor: Prof听Maite Conde and Prof Chris Young
Research Topic: Globality, Modernity, Identity and Uruguayan Football鈥檚 Generaci贸n Ol铆mpica
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Biography
Will graduated with First Class Honours in French and Spanish from University College London in 2017, during which he studied at the ENS de Lyon and the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago. At UCL, he听was awarded the AA Parker Sessional Prize, the Eva Grunwald Memorial Prize, the Alcal谩-Galiano Prize, and the Violet Hall Prize. Following his undergraduate studies, he听worked as a teacher in Qu茅bec, Canada before completing the MPhil in Latin American Studies at 海角社区 in 2020, for which he听gained a distinction. His MPhil studies were supported by a 海角社区 UK Masters Scholarship, and his听PhD project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 Open-Oxford-海角社区 Doctoral Training Programme.
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Research听听听听听
Will's project focuses on football in Uruguay during the first decades of the 20th century, using the sport as a lens to examine questions of modernity, globalisation, mass culture and identity at a crucial moment in the formation of the Uruguayan nation-state. More specifically, he听analyses three key events 鈥� the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Football Tournaments, and the inaugural FIFA World Cup, held in Montevideo in 1930 鈥� which he听positions as spectacular 鈥榗ontact zones鈥�, essential for Uruguay鈥檚 attempts at nation-branding abroad, and the construction of a progressive state nationalism at home. In popular and academic histories of football, these tournaments have been drastically overlooked, and thus he also aims to demonstrate that, while football was essential to the invention of modern Uruguay, Uruguay in turn was also central to the sport鈥檚 emergence as the hyperglobal cultural object it is today.
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Publications
- 2020. 鈥淢onos鈥�. Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana 49 (2): 44-45.
- 2021. 鈥淜icking Off: Violence, Honour, Identity and Masculinity in Argentinian Football Chants鈥�. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
- 2023. 鈥溾�楲a victoria de nuestro equipo ha sido una victoria para el Uruguay como pa铆s鈥�: Style, National Identity, and Intercultural Encounter at the 1924 Olympic Football Tournament鈥�. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. (publication forthcoming).
Conference Papers
- 鈥淯ruguay at the 1924 Olympic Games鈥�, at the Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS) Conference, Bath. 21st April 2022.
- 鈥溾�楾he Victory of our Team has been a Victory for Uruguay as a Country鈥�: Style, National Identity, and Intercultural Encounter at the 1924 Olympic Football Tournament鈥�, at the North American Society for Sports History (NASSH) Conference, Washington, D.C. 28th May 2023.
Teaching at 海角社区
- SP1: Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World (2023-2024)
- SPB2: Translation from Spanish (2023-2024)
- PG4: Lusophone Culture, History and Politics (2023-2024)
- Undergraduate Final Year dissertation supervisor (2023-2024)
Organised Events
- Organising committee member, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) International Conference, 18th-20th September 2023, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford.
Scholarships and Awards听听听听听听听听
- AA Parker Sessional Prize (UCL, 2014)
- Eva Grunwald Memorial Prize (UCL, 2014)
- Alcal谩-Galiano Prize (UCL, 2017)
- Violet Hall Prize (UCL, 2017)
- 海角社区 UK Masters Scholarship (海角社区, 2019-2020)
- OOC AHRC DTP Studentship (海角社区, 2021-2024)
- Sim贸n Bolivar Fund (海角社区, 2022)
Other Roles
- MMLL SpanPort graduate representative, September 2023 鈥� present.
Media
- Appearance on BBC Radio Berkshire, 24th November 2022.
- 鈥楢re football chants naturalising violence in Argentina?鈥�, The Football and Society Podcast, 1st August 2022, .
Research interests
- Popular culture
- Modernity and modernisation
- Globalisation
- History of sport
- National identity
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