Professor

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Luis Botella graduated in history from the University of Malaga in 2007, and subsequently did a master’s degree in Korean Studies at Yonsei University in 2010. Subsequently, he continued his doctoral studies at the University Malaga with a thesis entitled “The field of Korean Archaeology in South Korea (1945-1979). Power relations in the Institutionalization and Professionalization of archaeology” and which she defended in 2017. Since then he has developed a line of research focused on the social structure of archaeology and knowledge production with several publications in this regard.

He is currently researching the relationship between geographical space and Korean society over time. He has been teaching at the University of Málaga since 2012.

Summary

Area of expertise

East Asian Studies

 

Academic Degree

  • International Doctorate in History
  • M.A. in Korean Studies

 

Teaching

B.A. in East Asian Studies – Korean Studies

His teaching activity in undergraduate courses focuses on the teaching of Korean language and contemporary East Asian history

 

Employment relationship

Permanent Interim Professor

 

Areas of interest

  • History of Archaeology
  • Historiography
  • Contemporary East Asian History

 

His work is linked to the following lines of research in Korean studies:

  • The history of archaeology in the Republic of Korea
  • Academic exchanges in the Republic of Korea

Publications

Book chapter:

Botella Sanchez, L. and Kang Eun Kyung, (2022). “Introduction” A. Domenech del Río and P. Chica, “Una Bala Perdida, Bilingual Edition,” Málaga: University of Málaga, pp. 9-24.

 

Articles:

  • Cañelles López, M., Sánchez Berrocal, A., Doménech del Río, A.J., Wagner, A., Martín Casares, A., Roldán Panadero, C., Ortega Martín, D., Muñoz Ruiz, E., Pérez Sedeño, E., Rey Concha, J., Argyriou, K., Botella Sánchez, L., Jiménez Sarmiento, M.M., Campillo, N.E., Aramayo R.R., Moreno Olmeda, T. and García Alemán, V. (2022). “BiFiSo-CSIC: taking stock of a multidisciplinary fight against the pandemic,” The Conversation, unpaginated. https://theconversation.com/bifiso-csic-balance-de-una-lucha-multidisciplinar-contra-la-pandemia-159180
  • Martín Casares, A and Botella Sánchez, L. (in review). “First visual images on Korea in Spanish Media (beginning XXth century).” Visual Anthropology (in press).

 

Conferences:

  • Botella Sánchez, L., Martín Casares, A.: “Pioneer Mediterranean Women: Amalia Amador, from Malaga to Korea,” Mediterranean Studies Association International Congress, NOVA Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas Universidade Nova de Lisboa (25-28/05/ 2022).
  • Botella Sánchez, L.: “Marginal spaces in the center of regions: the northern frontier of Silla during its 6th century expansion,” University Meeting Frontiers, slavery and identities: an overview, University of Malaga (9/05/2022).
  • Botella Sánchez, L.: “The configuration of a new discipline: the postcolonial transition and Korean archaeologists, 1920.1970,” Knowledge Transfer Between Modern East Asia and the West: A Global Perspective on History, Knowledge, and Thought in Modern Korea, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, (22-23/04/2022).
  • Botella Sánchez, L.: “James Palais and slavery during the Koryo and Choson dynasties: the construction of a unique characteristic for Korea,” Groupe International de Researche sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, University of Málaga, (20-22/04/2022).
  • Botella Sánchez, L.: “Frontiers, slavery and identities in the early states of the Korean peninsula (s. I BC – S. X AD), ”International Symposium Women, equality and slavery in Korea, University of Malaga, (22/03/2022).
  • Botella Sanchez, L.: “Border crossing in Samguk Yusa: An early approach”, 트랜스내셔날 한국학센터 국제학술대회 International Conference “Transnational Korean Studies Center”, Incheon National University, (1/12/2021 – 14/01/2022).
  • “The construction of an unbalanced field of archaeological research: central and peripheral agents in the production of archaeology in South Korea”, 8th World Congress of Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 5-7 Oct. 2016.
  • “The Evolution of Academic Journals in the Field of Archaeology in Relation to the Definition of the Field and the Consolidation of a Community of Practitioners” The 12th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention in Europe, University of Copenhagen 21-24 Sept. 2016.
  • “The Credentials of a Profession. Korean Archaeology between Empires (1945-1979),” III Doctoral Research Seminar, University of Málaga, 20-21 June 2016.
  • “Notes for a historiographical project,” III Workshop for teachers of Korean studies in the region, Autonomous University of Madrid.