Germán Rodas Chaves is an Ecuadorian historian, writer, university professor, and a leader of the Ecuadorian socialist party. He has authored and co-authored multiple books, research studies, and articles on Ecuadorian and Latin American history, politics, medicine and health. Among his books are: “La izquierda ecuatoriana en el siglo 20” [The Ecuadorian Left in the 20th Century] (2000), “Fidel en el Ecuador: a propósito de la visita de Fidel Castro a Guayaquil en 1971” [Fidel in Ecuador: About Fidel Castro’s Visit to Guayaquil in 1971] (2001), and “Eloy Alfaro y Cuba en el siglo XIX” [Eloy Alfaro and Cuba in the 19th Century] (2013). In 2012, the Quito Municipality honored Rodas with the “Isabel Tobar Guarderas” Award for a book he co-authored and edited entitled “Revolución Juliana y salud colectiva” [The Juliana Revolution and Public Health] in recognition as the best book of the year in the social sciences field. In 2021 he published his latest book “Pandemias y enfermedades en la historia del Ecuador, siglos XVIII-XXI” [Pandemics and Diseases in Ecuador’s History, 19th-20th Centuries]. He is a member of Ecuador’s National Academy of History and of the Association of Historians of Latin America and the Caribbean (ADHILAC).
Education
Germán Rodas has a master’s degree from the University of Havana, Cuba.
He is a member of
- Member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador.
- Association of Historians of Latin America and the Caribbean (ADHILAC).
- Latin American Network of Health Historians.
Awards
- “Isabel Tobar Guarderas” Award bestowed by the Metropolitan Council of the Municipality of Quito for the best publication in Social Sciences of the year 2012.
- “Manuela Cañizares” Award in recognition of the defense of human rights bestowed by the Metropolitan Council of the Municipality of Quito in 2017.
Teaching career
Germán Rodas Chaves has been a professor at the Simón Bolívar Andean University in Ecuador, as well as a guest lecturer at various universities in the region. He has given lectures in different academic centers in Europe, Latin America and Africa; He has participated in a number of international conferences on history, medical thought and political thought.
Political career
Germán Rodas Chaves has been a leader of the socialist party of Ecuador. He was Secretary General of the Latin American Socialist Coordination. He is a founding member of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CNA), a civil society organization, of which he is currently the National Coordinator.
Selected works
- Pandemias y enfermedades en la historia del Ecuador, siglos XVIII-XXI
- Centenario de la Guerra Hispano-Cubana-Nortemericana
- Eloy Alfaro y Cuba en el siglo XIX (La Habana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2013)
- Partido Socialista casa adentro. Aproximación a sun dos primeras décadas
- Revolución juliana y salud colectiva
- Pensamiento Médico. El liberalismo radical y la revolución juliana. Trazos de la figura de Isidro Ayora (2017)
- ¿El estertor del Escorpión? La globalización neoliberal arrinconada por sus propios paradigmas
- Ricardo Paredes. El médico que se formó bajo la huella de la Revolución Juliana
- José Martí : aproximación a sus 20 primeros años de vida
- Fidel en el Ecuador: a propósito de la visita de Fidel Castro a Guayaquil en 1971
- El Plan Colombia: análisis de una estrategia neoliberal
- La izquierda ecuatoriana en el siglo 20: (aproximación histórica) (2000) – Read it for free here.
- Reflexiones
- Testimonio de la reconstitución del Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano en 1983
- Cuba y Latinoamérica en los años 60
As co-author
- Revolución Juliana y salud colectiva (2012)