Traditional and Folk Music; Popular Culture; Space and Place;

1) 1 PhD: a) Miguel Vásquez, PhD in Musicology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-SPAIN, ??2022-2026. Main Advisor.
2) 1 M.A.: a) Rodrigo Toro Mendoza, Master's in Musicology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM-MEXICO), 2019-2021. Main Advisor.
3) 1 Undergraduate: a) Tabiuta Lagos, "Folk music practices in Private Education Schools in RM, Chile", Universidad Mayor, 2023-2024. Main Advisor.
4) 1 Postdoc: Martín Liut, "Canción de Protesta en Sudamérica", Núcleo Milenio CMUS-Universidad Mayor, 2024-2025, CHILE. Main Advisor.
5) 3 Jury and co-advisoring: M.A. diss 2021-2025 (Gerardo Salazar, UNAM-MEXICO; Juan Alfaro, Universidad Diego Portales, CHILE; Juan José Correa (Cultural Administration, U. de Chile, CHILE).
6) 2 Previous co-tutorships: a) Daniela Araya, Master's in History, University of Chile, 2019. Dropped in 2020; b) Luís Madrid, Master's in History, University of Chile, 2019. Co-tutorship.

PRINTED PUBLICATIONS
2015. “Returning from the Tupido Bosque”. Contents of the CD Madejas for guitar, Raúl Céspedes (guitar). Santiago de Chile: Microtono.
2018. “The good savage”, Comments on the album Madejas for guitar, Danilo Donoso (guitar). Santiago de Chile: Microtono.
2018. “Prologue”, in the book “History of Lucy Briceño. Women in the music of the bohemian porteña”, by Rodrigo Oteiza, Andrea Martínez and Lorena Huenchuñir. University Editions of Valparaíso / Valparaíso.

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Web Book “Chronology of the Chilean Cueca. 2015. Sources for the Study of Popular Music in Chile”, Fondo Fomento Musica Nacional, Consejo Nac. Cultura y las Artes (CNCA). In Cancionerodecuecas.com.
Marinho, Laura, and Rustom, Cristián, eds. 2020. Proceedings of the Conference “Communication and Popular Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Conference organized by Chiara Sáez, Christian Spencer Espinosa and Antonieta Vera. Santiago de Chile: ICEI.

CONFERENCES
Conference “Migrant Musicians in Chile”, in the Piano Mestizo II program, Goethe Institut Hall, Valparaíso, Chile, August 21, 2018. Organizers: Catalina Jiménez and Rodrigo Oteiza.
Conversation “Cueca, memory and color”, GAM Cultural Center, Organizer: Bárbara León, September 13, 2018.
Conference “Migrant musicians in Chile”, in the program Piano Mestizo I, Sala ExCárcel Valparaíso, Chile, December 15, 2018. Organizer: Catalina Jiménez and Rodrigo Oteiza.
Writing of the booklet for the album “Isidora Zegers”, December 2018. Organizer: Education in Musical Arts, Universidad Mayor, Pedro Iglesias producer. 800 words.
Presentation of the book “Margot Loyola and the infinite scene of folklore”, Thesis Defense Room, El Claustro Campus, Universidad Mayor, together with Ignacio Ramos, from the Center for Research in Arts and Humanities (CIAH), January 22, 2019.

PRESS and MEDIA

2024. “Two hundred years of tap dancing: a look at the cultural value of the Chilean cueca”, September 14, Interferencia, https://interferencia.cl/articulos/doscientos-anos-de-zapateo-una-mirada-al-valor-cultural-de-la-cueca-chilena
2024. “The rebirth of the cueca, the emblematic national dance of Chile”, interview on BBC UK, September 17, https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/c17ll8jy1yyo
2024. The festivalization of culture”., Palabra Pública, September 26. https://palabrapublica.uchile.cl/la-festivalizacion-de-la-cultura/
2024. “On music, science and emotions”, with Ignacio Soto. El Mostrador, September 11. https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/universoparalelo/2024/09/11/de-musica-ciencia-y-emociones/
2023. “La cueca como paradigma”, CIPER, September. https://www.ciperchile.cl/2023/09/15/la-cueca-como-paradigma/
2023. Interview “Unprecedented project will seek to investigate aspects of Chilean society through the analysis of its different musical cultures”. El Mostrador.

(2017-2022)
“Interview in the Universidad de Chile Newspaper”, Conversation on the “Semáforo en radio” Program, regarding the Interview of the 1st Cueca Congress (Colloquium) “40 years of nationalization of the cueca”, September 4, 2019.
“The Chilean cueca”, interview for Canal 13 radio, September 6, 2018.
“Christian Spencer, the new winner of the Fidel Sepúlveda Prize”, El Mercurio, February 23, 2017. Section C.
“Music, space and folklore”, interview on TVUG, television of the University of Guanajuato, May 2, 2017.
“Interview with Christian Spencer”, Canal 13 Radio (T13), September 2, Conversation with Carolina Urrejola regarding the 1st Cueca Congress (Colloquium) “40 years of nationalization of the cueca”.
“Interview on Chilean mambo”, Chilevisión noticias, July 20, 2019.
Interview by Mariana Katz for the site “Sounds of Caliban. A history of Latin America through music”, Episode 1, “Music Goes national” and Episode 2, “The sound of silence and resistance”. https://www.soundsofcaliban.com/
Workshop “Communication and Popular Culture” for grassroots social organizations. Santiago Library, June 2018. Organized by Fondecyt Project Nº1161532, “Towards a sociology of absent popular culture”.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Creation and publication of Database of Chilean composers, International Society of Chilean Musicians Abroad (SIMUC), 2017. https://www.simuc.org/
Classes in undergraduate courses in the arts and music career, Mount Saint Mary’s University, sessions “Violeta Parra: gender and social art”, “Feminine traditions. Women in the Chilean Urban Cueca (2010-2020)”, “Music and politics in the Chilean Spring”, “Music scenes in Latin America”, January 2020.

CREATION AND DISSEMINATION OF ART

“Southamerican Strings”, concert for charango, guitar and Venezuelan cuatro, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, California, Doheny Mansion, February 2, 2020.
Album “Los Príncipes, Volume 2”. Self-publishing. Arrangements, composition and interpretation. December 2020.