Sebastiaan Faber

Sebastiaan Faber

Sebastiaan Faber was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he studied Spanish; his doctorate is from the University of California, Davis. He is Professor of the Department of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College, where he directs the Center of Languages and Cultures.  Sebastiaan is the author of Exile and Cultural Hegemony: Spanish Exiles in Mexico (Vanderbilt, 2002) and Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War (Palgrave, 2008), as well as some sixty articles on Spanish and Latin American literature, history, and politics. You can find his faculty webpage here. In 2000 he won the George Watt Essay Prize in the graduate category and has been on the ALBA board since 2004. He is an editor of the online edition of The Volunteer.

Peter N. Carroll, Chair Emeritus

Peter N. Carroll, Chair Emeritus

Peter N. Carroll was the author and editor of over 20 books, including The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War (Stanford, 1994), The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (2006), and Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War (NYU, 2007). He was co-curator of two museum exhibitions: Shouts From the Wall: Posters of the Spanish Civil War (with Cary Nelson) and They Still Draw Pictures: Children’s Art in Wartime From the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo (with Anthony L. Geist). He was an editor of The Volunteer and he served as a trustee of the Puffin Nation Prize for creative citizenship. He was also the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Sketches From Spain: The Legacy of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (2024) which has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Photo Credit - Jeannette Ferrary