Juan Alberto RUIZ CASADO

Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado (Spain, 1983) is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Cofund Fellow at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies. His main lines of research include the hegemonic struggle between the United States and China, in which Taiwan is inserted, and the theoretical concept of the “populism of the privileged”.

Previously, he has been Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica (Taiwan, 2023), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan, 2022). He received a PhD in Social Research and Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan, 2021); a MA in Peace Culture, Conflict, Education and Human Rights at the University of Málaga (Spain, 2016), and a BA in Communication Studies at the University of Málaga (Spain, 2006).

Beyond the academia, he has worked as a paratrooper in the military (2006-2008), in international trade in India and Pakistan (2009-2011), English teacher in China (2011-2013), junior security analyst in the UN (internship in Panama, 2016), and as a freelance photographer (2012-2022). In the process, he has visited over 100 countries.