David Petit Molano
Academic Mentor: Ioana Literat, associate professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technologies Design, Teacher's College
Research Topic: Analysis of Inequality and Digital Gaps in the Valparaíso Region of Chile and How Innovation from a Historical-Social Perspective Can Positively Contribute to Public Policies for the Social Inclusion of Older Adults
Columbia Global Center: Santiago
David Petit Molano is an educator, researcher, and consultant. His academic and professional experience has enabled him to leverage interdisciplinary approaches and direct them toward public policies. He earned his doctorate in 2023 from the Institute of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. David's dissertation, entitled "Three Revolutionary Clerics During South American Independence: 1810-1830," provides an alternative framework for studying agents in specific environments from a comparative and Hispanic-American perspective to reconstruct historical-political processes. David holds a bachelor’s degree in political and administrative sciences (2009) and a specialization in international law and politics (2013) from the Central University of Venezuela. His academic and research work in Venezuela focused on reconstructing Hispanic-American international political thought using intellectual history, conceptual history, and international law between the 18th and 20th centuries. His interests include applied research in areas intersecting the humanities, social sciences, democracy, politics, innovation, and society.
David has served as a professor of history, international relations, and political science at leading universities in Venezuela and Chile (2010-2024). He also served as an advisor in Venezuela’s health sector and a researcher in national and international groups, including the Ibero-American Iberconceptos II Project, Venezuela chapter (2010-2016). In Chile, he has experience in comparative and cross-sectional studies in public administration, social sciences, and innovation and development.
David's project at the Columbia Global Center in Santiago focuses on addressing social issues, public policies, and digital divides in the Valparaíso Region of Chile from a humanistic and comparative perspective. Specifically, the project incorporates a study that will generate key inputs from the humanities and social sciences to help redefine the processes of formulating and implementing public policies. The project aims to connect the use of technologies as tools for enhancing human interaction and state-level management to provide better services and meet current and future citizen needs. The project also proposes the creation of a collaborative, inter-institutional learning and management platform focused on innovation and social integration for older adults.
Selected Publications:
Tiempo y Espacio Journal. “Comparative and Connected Histories: The Cases of Three South American Revolutionary Clerics.” UPEL-Centro de Investigaciones Históricas Mario Briceño Iragorry, Caracas (Venezuela), Vol. 39, No. 75, second semester (2021) (Open Access).
Bicentenario. Journal of History of Chile and America. “Myth, Cult, and Political Ritual in Antonio Guzmán Blanco.” Vol. 17, No. 1 (2018), pp. 91-121. Santiago de Chile, Centro de Estudios Bicentenario.
Revista de la Academia. Institute of Humanities. Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile. “Gadamer's Hermeneutics as a Theoretical-Philosophical Foundation of Reinhart Koselleck’s Conceptual History.” Vol. 25, Fall 2018, pp. 9-26. (Open Access).
Presente y Pasado. History Journal. Year 19, No. 38. Republic and Roads in Venezuela, 1831-1847: “Foundations of Guillermo Iribarren Mora's Political and Economic Thought During the Deliberative Government.” July-December, 2014, pp. 89-114. (Open Access).