Aiden Gonzalez

Education

Universidad Complutense de Madrid                                                                                                           2024 – 2025

MA in Nationalism Studies, Department of Political Science

            Matrícula de Honor por Trabajo Fin de Master

University of Pennsylvania                                                                                                                            2016 – 2020

BA in Political Science, with a minor in Legal Studies and History

Magna Cum Laude

University Scholar (Honors Distinction)                                                                                 

Political Science Honors Distinction                                                                                                                           

 

Publications

“Are the Kids Alright? The Falling Level of Support Among Youth For Quebecois Sovereignty”. Canadian Public Administration / Administration publique du Canada 68, Issue 4 (2025).

 

“Origins of Secession”. College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, U. of Pennsylvania, Volume 2020.

 

Research Interests and Experience

My primary interests are secession, separatism, and identity politics, with a particular emphasis on the generation and development of a unique secessionist identity within an extant ethnonational identity.

 

University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department 2019 – 2020

  • Cross-national qualitative and quantitative comparison of secessionist sentiment
  • Causal inferential research on origin of secessionist identity
  • On-ground fieldwork in United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, and Ireland
  • Historical review of other secessionist cases, including Quebec, Norway-Sweden, and Scotland
  • Grant awarded by the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department 2018 – 2019

  • Qualitative review of causes and of Brexit and ramifications thereof to British-Irish relations
  • Interviewed national (Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland) and European Union political elites
  • Accessed European Council archives in Brussels to access historical stances of EU elites to withdrawal
  • Grant awarded by the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania Political Science Department 2017 – 2018

  • Agent-based modeling and quantitative analysis of election trends and voter mobilization patterns
  • Utilized statistical data analysis and developed custom programming in C
  • Grant awarded by the University of Pennsylvania