Margarita Márquez Padorno is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History in the Department of International Relations and Global History at the Complutense University of Madrid and teacher and researcher at the Fundación e Instituto Universitario Ortega – Marañón. She has a PhD on the history of mass media and holds a bachelor’s degree on Information Science (Journalism).

Her current fields of research focus on the intellectual university networks of Spanish women during the first third of the 20th century and the golden age of Spanish journalism. Some of her published works include Mujeres en Vanguardia (Ediciones Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, 2016) and La Residencia de Señoritas y otras redes culturales femeninas (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 2017)

In addition, she is the main researcher of the project “La octava hermana: universitarias españolas en el intercambio cultural y educativo con EEUU (1836-1936)”, coordinated by the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón, and also the curator of two travelling exhibitions that since 2015 have been on tour across different Spanish towns: Mujeres en Vanguardia (Acción cultural española) and 30 Pioneras (Fundaciuón Ortega-Marañón).

She has been Visiting Associate Professor in the Governance department at Georgetown University, Annual Visiting Professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies GmbH, Technische Universität Dresden (2009-2018), Fellow at Harvard University (MA, USA); Visiting Professor at the Universidad Católica Argentina of Buenos Aires, at Funglode University of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), and at the Ohio State University, as well as professeur invité at the University of La Sorbonne (Paris, France).

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1635-7106