Rate My Professor Manuel Hernández

Manuel Hernández González is a Catedrático de Universidad specializing in Historia de América within the Department of Geography and History at the Universidad de La Laguna. He received his PhD from the Universidad de La Laguna in 1987, with a dissertation titled La religiosidad popular en Tenerife durante el siglo XVIII, which examines popular religiosity and festivals in 18th-century Tenerife. His longstanding academic career at the university has centered on American history, with particular emphasis on Canarian emigration to the Americas, colonial dynamics in Venezuela and the Caribbean, cultural and everyday life in Spanish America, slavery, Freemasonry, liberalism, and the independence wars. Hernández González's scholarship delves into transatlantic migrations, social transformations, and mentalities, drawing extensively from archival sources to illuminate the Canarian diaspora's profound impact on American societies.

Among his extensive publications, standout works include La emigración canaria a América a través de la historia (2008), La emigración canaria a Venezuela (2007), Los canarios en la Venezuela colonial (1670-1810) (1999), La emigración canaria a América (1765-1824) (1996), Canarias: la emigración (1995), Mujer y vida cotidiana en Canarias en el siglo XVIII (1998), and La esclavitud blanca: contribución a la historia del inmigrante canario en América, siglo XIX (1992). Additional key titles are La iglesia y la independencia de Venezuela: Los sacerdotes desterrados a España, Masonería, criollismo y cuestión nacional en Cuba (1808-1823), La América española (1763-1898): Cultura y vida cotidiana, and Secundino Delgado. El hombre y el mito. Una biografía crítica. With over 1,500 citations on Google Scholar and an h-index reflecting substantial influence, his research has advanced the fields of Caribbean history, Canarian studies, and Latin American independence historiography. He coordinates the Cátedra Francisco de Miranda at the Universidad de La Laguna and contributes to doctoral programs such as the Official PhD Program in Atlantic Islands: History, Heritage and Institutional Legal Framework, fostering new generations of historians through supervision and academic events.