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Miguel Hernandez serves as a Lecturer in American History within the Department of History & Welsh History at Aberystwyth University, specializing in 1920s American fraternal movements with particular focus on the Ku Klux Klan's organizational structures and philanthropic activities.
His research synthesizes American History, Fraternalism, and Digital Humanities to examine Klan-Freemasonry dynamics, racialized brotherhood, and charitable frameworks within white supremacist movements. Hernandez extends this historical analysis to contemporary contexts through studies of pandemic-era online pedagogy in American Studies education.
Publication trends reveal chronological deepening of Klan scholarship: from foundational Gilded Age fraternal contexts (2016) through comparative 1920s analyses (2019) toward nuanced examinations of Klanish philanthropy (2022), now evolving into digital curation of historical collections through his AHRC-funded project.
Hernandez supervises PhD candidate Ffion Eluned Roberts and leads the externally funded project 'Digitizing Hatred: Examining and Enhancing Understanding of Digital Collections on the history of the Second Ku Klux Klan and its Opponents' (2023-2024), supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
