Dr. Antonio Miguel Nogués Pedregal
I am Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social and Human Sciences at the Universitas Miguel Hernández since october 2000. Until september 2014, when the Bolonia process was imposed over Spanish campuses, I had been teaching Social and political anthropology and Anthropology of leisure and tourism at the Licenciatura of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Bachelor level). Currently I am teaching the following courses:
- Cultural mediation in the arts in the fourth year of Bachelor of Audiovisual Communication
- Bases of Scientific Research in the Doctoral Program in Social and Legal Sciences
- Management of Natural and Cultural Heritage for Rural Development in the Master Degree in Agroecology, Rural Development and Agrotourism
I have delivered seminars and lectures on socio-anthropology of tourism and tourism development from an cultural-ecological perspective as well as researching as Visiting Scholar (VS) at different European and American universities:
- Johannes Gutenberg-Universität – Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirische Kulturwissenschaft – Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde (Mainz – Deutschland)
- KU Leuven – Faculty of Social Sciences (Leuven – Belgium)
- Oxford-Brookes University – Department of Social Sciences (Oxford – United Kingdom)
- Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου [University of the Aegean] – Τμήμα Κοινωνικής Ανθρωπολογίας και Ιστορίας [Department of Social Anthropology and History] (Mytilini – Ελλάδα/Elláda)
- Università degli Studi di Teramo – Facolta’ di Scienze Politiche (Teramo – Italia)
- Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar – Área de Letras y Estudios Culturales (Quito – Ecuador)
- University of Florida – College of Libertal Arts and Sciences – Department of History (Gainesville – United States of America)
- University of Oxford – Wolfson College (Oxford – United Kingdom)
- Univerza v Ljubljani – Oddelek za etnologijo in kulturno antropologijo [Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology] (Ljubljana – Slovenja)
- Wageningen University – Cultural Geography Group (Wageningen – Nederlands)
I am a board member of the International Journal of Heritage and Sustainable Development an advisory board member of Revista Valenciana d’Etnologia, as well as peer-reviewer of several international and national scientific journals.
On January 28th of 2015 I was awarded with the II Prize José Lledó y Antón on university freedom and autonomy with the text por el trabajo titulado La libertad de catédra universitaria en el actual orden de palabras y cosas. The university news magazine UMH Sapiens published an interview with me on this subject, and the Blog of the Master de Antropología Social Práctica where I am currently also teaching, published an interview that summarises my views on teaching. Though my most precious award and the one I am most proud of is the Prize to Educational Talent obtained in November 2014 
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My email is amnogues[at]umh[dot]es