Nikita L. Harwich#

• Emeritus Professor of Latin American History and Civilization, Université de Paris Nanterre, Nanterre
• 2002 - 2020 Professor of Latin American History and Civilization, Université de Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, Languages Faculty, Department of Applied Foreign Languages
• 2010 - 2019 Deputy Director of the research laboratory « Mondes Américains » – UMR 8168 –, (CNRS, EHESS, Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne et Université de Paris Nanterre)
• 1996 - 2001 Professor, Université de Rouen, Humanities and Literature Faculty, Department of Spanish Studies
• 1994 - 1996 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, Social Sciences and Administration Faculty, Department of History
• 1990 - 1994 N. D. Dao Professor, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Institute of Historical Studies
• 1991 - 1992 Andrés Bello Fellow, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

• History of oil
• Latin American history of ideas
• History of asphalt
• History of commodities
• Latin American historiography
• Latin American economic history
• History of cocoa

• 2022 Corresponding Member for France of the National Academy of History of Venezuela
• 2018 Chevalier, ordre national du Mérite, France
• 2002 Member of the French Chocolate and Confectionery Academy (seat n° 8)
• 1993 City of Caracas Literature Prize [Premio Municipal de Literatura]. Mention: « Historical Research »
• 1989 Order of Andrés Bello, grand cordon first class, Venezuela

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