Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez
Assistant Professor PhD in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the UCM. After obtaining her undergraduate degree in History (2010), she took her Master's degree in History of the Hispanic Monarchy (15th - 19th centuries) (2011) and obtained her doctorate on an international scale from the Complutense University of Madrid (2015). She spent several periods abroad: at the Università degli Studi di Firenze; at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV; and at the Università di Pisa. Between 2015 and 2017 she obtained a postdoctoral contract at the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC), and later a grant for a Call for Research Talent Attraction of the Community of Madrid (2018-2020). During these years she participated in about thirty Congresses inside and outside Spain. She also organized several national and international seminars and round tables by herself or in collaboration with others. She has been a member of the journal Cuadernos de Historia Moderna since October 2019. Her published works include A la sombra de la reina. Power, patronage and service in the court of the Hispanic Monarchy (1615-1644), (CSIC, 2020); the editing of the volume (together with Marcella Aglietti and J. Antonio López Anguita) Élites e reti di potere. Strategie d'integrazione nell'Europa di età moderna (2016). Her lines of research deal with the role of the female nobility as a political agent within the Mediterranean territories that make up the Hispanic Monarchy, and political and cultural relations with the Italian peninsula during the reigns of Philip III and Philip IV.