Enric Castillo Hidalgo is a history graduate from the University of Granada and has an MA in World History from Pompeu Fabra University. He is currently a student in the PhD History Program at Pompeu Fabra University. His doctoral research concerns the colonisation of the Mariana Islands, focusing on the construction of the colonial empire in the Islands, and the effects that colonisation had on the Chamorro population. He is especially interested in the colonisers' perception of the Chamorro people, as well as how the colonisers imposed their cultures on the native population.