Visiting researchers
2024
Alejandra Salazar Escar
Alejandra Salazar Escar
Affiliation:
Department of Art History at the National University of Distance Education (UNED)
Alejandra Salazar Escar is a predoctoral researcher in the Department of Art History at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and a member of the consolidated research group “Arte y Pensamiento”. She currently holds an FPI research contract and was a professor-tutor attached to the Faculty of Geography and History during the 2022-2023 academic year. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the processes of intergenerational transmission and legacy of objects during the transitional period between the Trastámara and Habsburg dynasties. She analyzes their impact on the construction of female identity memory and the consolidation of lineages across time and spaces, with particular attention to the fate of the Trastámara monarchs’ Treasure in the Alcázar of Segovia.
Her main areas of specialization include the study of the itinerary of objects throughout the 15th century in the Iberian Peninsula and their function as identity symbols and containers of dynastic memory, as well as the role of the mother as an educational figure and the material culture of marriage.
E-mail
alesalazar@geo.uned.es
Alejandro Pombo Rial
Alejandro Román López
Alejandro Román López
Affiliation
Centro de Investigación de la Historia de la Arquitextura y el Patrimonio artístico Andalus, Universidad de Sevilla
E-mail
aromanlop@us.es
Carlos Crespo Amat
Carmen Heredia Heredia
Carmen Heredia Heredia
PhD candidate at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, she develops her research work in the Middle Ages and gender studies, producing articles and conferences on the role of women in border territories, especially after the conquest of the Canary Islands.
Her thesis, entitled “Mulheres e colonização nas Ilhas Canárias: redes
sociais e jurídicas durante o século XV-XVI”, under the guidance of Professor Víctor Muñoz Gómez, works on the female figure in the Canary Islands after the conquest, through two Protocols Notarials, sources that provide essential information about the women who settle on the islands, and their participation in the purchase and sale of goods, wills and marriage agreements.
E-mail
carmen.heredia@ulpgc.es
Carmen Poblete Trichilet
Carmen Poblete Trichilet
Affiliation
Universidad Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Carmen Poblete Trichilet is graduated in History of Art (2018) and Master in Research in Literature and Humanities (2019) from the University of Castilla – La Mancha, both finishing with Premio Extraordinario. She is currently a contract researcher at the Department of History of Art at the same university, where she is pursuing her PhD, entitled Promoción artística y coleccionismo de las élites femeninas en la Corte
de Isabel la Católica, under the guidance of Doctor Sonia Morales Cano (University of Castilla – La Mancha) and Doctor Sonia Caballero Escamilla (University of Granada).
Her area of research focuses primarily on analyzing female agency in Castile in the Late Middle Ages and early Modern Age, focusing on the construction of artistic heritage.
She is a member of the Asociación Española de Investigación en Historia de las Mujeres (AEIHN), the Comité Española de Historia da Arte (CEHA), the Asociación Profesional de Historiadores del Arte (Aproha), and the Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales (SEEM). In January 2021, she was admitted as a member of the Sociedad Española de Excelencia Académica (SEDEA).
Since November 2020, she has been part of the team of the subproject Reinas e infantas de las monarquías ibéricas: espacios religiosos, modelos de representación y escrituras ca. 1252-1504 (ref. PGC2018-099205-B-C21, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities/AEI/FEDER 2019-2021), directed by Doctor Ángela Muñoz Fernández (University of Castilla – La Mancha), included in the I+D Las mujeres en las monarquías ibéricas: Paradigmas institucionales, agencias políticas y modelos culturales, in which her doctoral thesis is framed.
In 2022, she joined the team of the UCLM Consolidated Research Group for Literature and Art Studies led by Professors Margarita Rigal Aragão and Fernando González Moreno.
E-mail
carmen.ptrichilet@gmail.com
David Gallego Valle
David Gallego Valle
Affiliation:
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Archaeologist and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He holds a doctorate in History from the same university for his thesis “Las fortificaciones del campo de Montiel (SS. VIII al XVI): historia, arqueología y análisis constructivo”.
He is co-director of the Castillo de La Estrella de Montiel Archaeological Site. He is associated with the Laboratory of Archaeology, Heritage and Emerging Technologies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.
He is part of the project Military Orders and Religiosity in the Medieval West and Latin East (12th-1/2 16th centuries). Ideology, memory and material culture (MOR), as well as other research linked to the study of medieval fortifications, especially from the point of view of materiality. She has participated in various projects on the Military Orders and warfare in the Middle Ages, including studies on the Battle of Montiel, the Battle of Uclés, the siege of Salvatierra or Aljubarrota (Portugal), as well as others related to the History of Construction, where she has worked on both the Andalusian and Christian medieval periods. Since 2012 he has been co-directing the work on the castle of Montiel and its area of influence. To date, he has published 40 scientific papers and participated in a large number of national and international conferences.
He is a professional archaeologist who has developed his work in particular by directing more than a hundred intervention projects on medieval fortified architecture and the material culture of this period, such as the castles of Uclés, Salvatierra, Miraflores, Escalona, Santa María del Guadiana, Montiel, Burgos, etc. As a result of this work, he has published around fifty articles and books of various kinds.
E-mail
davidgallegovalle@gmail.com
Edwin Forner
Joan Beltran Todolí
Joan Beltran Todolí
Affiliation
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Joan Beltran Todolí is a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Salamanca associated with the People & Writing – ERC StG Research Project (2020-2025). His research field centres on the History of Written Culture, Written Communication, Palaeography and Diplomatics in the Late Middle Ages. At present, he conducts research on the chancery of the Crown of Aragon, as well as the political and social significance of writing during the Middle Ages.
Previously, he earned a BA degree in History from the University of València. During his undergraduate degree, he spent a year at the University of Leicester in the UK as an Erasmus+ student. He later attained a Master’s degree in History of the Making of the Western World at the University of València, for which he received a special award. During this period, he also acquired a collaboration grant with the Department of Medieval History and Historiography Sciences and Techniques.
E-mail
joanbeltran@usal.es
Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann
Kevin Rodríguez Wittmann
A construcción visual del Atlántico en la Baja Edad Media (siglos XIII-XV). Un acercamiento interdisciplinar
The Atlantic Ocean has been one of the key environments shaping the history of humanity. Throughout a large proportion of history, this stood as the final frontier of the known world while its importance in the development of this world, its diverse cultures and its role in the historical, social, economic and cultural interconnections between Europe and the Americas has been fundamental. However, in the centuries prior to such empirical knowledge and confirmation of its navigability, a specific image of ocean had built up and cannot be ignored in studying the historical and cultural realities.
In this project, I will study the importance of the Atlantic Ocean from the perspective of the imaginary prevailing as the Middle Ages ended from a transversal point of view and adopting as objects of study the cartographic, literary, historical and artistic sources in order to put forward a new perspective on how medieval Europe understood the Atlantic, the mental relationship with the ocean and how this relationship was fundamental to the gradual emergence of the empirical knowledge.
Biographic note
Graduated in the History of Art at the University of La Laguna. A Master’s Degree in Medieval Europa Identity from the University of Lérida and Doctoral Degree from the University of La Laguna for the thesis ” El imaginario oceánico. Las islas del Atlántico meridional en los mappaemundi medievales (siglos IX-XIV)”. His core research lines are the history of cartography from the cultural history perspective and cultural history and the changes in paradigm between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance approached through late medieval medical treatises.
He had also worked on the restoration of medieval manuscripts in poor states of conservation through multispectral imaging. And had presented the results of his research at various conferences and in national and international publications, both in Europe and in the United States.
E-mail
krodrigw@ull.edu.es
Rubén Alonso López
Sonia Campos Cuadrado
Sonia Campos Cuadrado
Affiliation
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espanha
Graduated in History from the Universidade Complutense de Madrid (2021) and Master in Medieval Studies from the same Institution (2022), with a thesis focused on analyzing the relations between Queen Urraca I of Leon and the Church. She interned at the PACNECON project and received a scholarship at the Department of American History and Medieval and Historiographical Sciences (2022).
Currently a doctoral student in the Area of Medieval History at the Department of History of America and Medieval and Historiographical Sciences, she is carrying out her thesis as part of the PhD program in History and Archeology (UCM).
She is also part of the team of the project Pacto, negociación y conflicto en la cultura política castellana (1230-1516) – PACNECON (PID2020-113794GB-I00) and the research group Sociedad, poder y cultura en la Corona de Castilla – siglos XIII al XVI – SPOCCAST. She has been a member of the Board of the Association of Young Medieval Researchers JIMENA since 2020 and has held the position of president since 2022.
Her main areas of research focus on the study of the figure of the queen as an agent of political and diplomatic action in the 11th-13th centuries.
E-mail
scampo01@ucm.es