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Media kit for Cristina Crespo Palomares, US politics analyst: short, medium and long bios, a photo, topics, formats, languages and media contact. The texts may be reproduced freely.
Short bio
Cristina Crespo Palomares holds a PhD in American Studies from the Universidad de Alcalá and analyzes US politics and Spain–US relations. She edited the book Vote for America. Cómo entender las elecciones en Estados Unidos (Catarata, 2022), and since 2014 she has explained US elections on television, on the radio and in print.
Medium bio
Cristina Crespo Palomares holds a PhD in American Studies from the Universidad de Alcalá and analyzes US politics and Spain–US relations. She wrote La alianza americana (Catarata, 2016) and edited Vote for America. Cómo entender las elecciones en Estados Unidos (Catarata, 2022). Since 2014 she has analyzed US elections on television, on the radio and in print. She spent 18 years at the Universidad de Alcalá, first at the Franklin Institute-UAH and later as Chief of Staff to the Rector.
Long bio
Cristina Crespo Palomares holds a PhD in American Studies from the Universidad de Alcalá and analyzes US politics and Spain–US relations. Her dissertation on the Atlanticist strategy of Spanish foreign policy between 1996 and 2004 was published as La alianza americana (Catarata, 2016). She also edited Vote for America. Cómo entender las elecciones en Estados Unidos (Catarata, 2022).
She worked at the Universidad de Alcalá for 18 years. At the Franklin Institute-UAH, one of Spain's leading centers for the study of the United States, she was Director of Research (2008-2016) and General Coordinator and Director of External Relations (2016-2022), as well as editor-in-chief of the journal Tribuna Norteamericana. From 2022 to 2026 she was Chief of Staff to the Rector.
In 2014 she took part in the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) and followed that year's midterm elections on the ground. Since then she has analyzed every US election cycle on La Sexta, Antena 3, Telecinco, RTVE, Cadena SER and COPE, and in the Spanish dailies ABC and El País. She has written more than forty analysis articles for Diálogo Atlántico and Política Exterior. She holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Universidad de Málaga and a master's in European Studies from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.