Bruno Esperante (A Baña, 1988) is an Associate Professor of Economic History in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC).
BA in History (2013, USC), MA with Extraordinary Distinction in Contemporary History (2014, USC), MA in Teacher Training (2020 UNED), and PhD with International Distinction in History from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2020, USC) for his dissertation, "The Moto-mechanization of Galician agriculture (1939-2000): Innovation Policies, Markets, and Peasant Communities” which was awarded the VII Valentín Paz Andrade Prize for the best dissertation in Economics in 2020.
He was a Juan de la Cierva-Formación Postdoctoral Researcher (2020) in the Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics, and World Economy at the University of Barcelona (UB), and an Assistant Professor of Economic History and Institutions in the Department of Applied Economics, Structure, and History at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) during the 2022/2023 academic year.
She has extensive experience in research stays at the University of Zurich (Zurich, 2024), the University of Coimbra (Portugal, 2022), Trinity College Dublin (Ireland, 2018), Purdue University (United States, 2017), and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden, 2016).
His main research lines are focused on the history of technological change and innovation in agriculture, as well as the industrialization of livestock farming, the agro-industry, and the environmental impacts produced in Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.
He has published in several international journals, including Rural History, Research in Economic History, Agrarian History, and Industrial History Review. He received the XVII Ramon Garrabou Prize for the best article on Agrarian History published in 2023 and 2024 in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, as well as the Felipe Ruiz Martín Prize for the best article on Economic History published in 2021 in Spain. He also has publications for a general audience, press contributions, and contributions to open-access online platforms such as “Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia,” published by the Rachel Carson Center in collaboration with Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich).
His most outstanding bibliographic contributions include:
