Research Area
Active Research fields
Nobility and social mobility strategies trough the construction of ecclesiastical careers (bishops and cardinals) and in the Military Orders (Order of Malta and Castilian military orders in particular)
Royal Patronage, Tridentine reforms and ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the relationships between Spain, Rome and Sicily
Polical and social integration/exclusion of Jewish Converts between Spain, Naples and Sicily
Research projects of the last 5 years
- FIRB 2012 - Maritime borders in the Mediterranean: how permeable are they? Exchange, control, denial of access (16th to 21st century), 2013-16, coord. Valentina Favarò
- ATE_FA_2012 (funded by University of Palermo) - Urban spaces and city rethorics in Early modern Sicily: powers, conflicts, cultures (XV-XIX cc.), 2013-14, coord. Rossella Cancila
- Convocatoria 2012 - Research Project funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Gobierno de España (ref. HAR2012-35995) - The culture of blood and of lineage in Spanish Siglo de Oro, 2013-16, principal investigator David García Hernan (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Collaborations
- Red Columnaria. Ultraque Unum. Red temática de investigación sobre las fronteras de las Monarquías ibéricas en los siglos XVI al XVIII, Nodes: "Italia Sur" and "Dinámicas de integración y rechazo de minorías en el Sur de Europa"
- Laboratorio de Estudios Judeoconversos (LEJ), University of Córdoba.