Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio
Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño holds a PhD in History from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
He teaches on the History degree course, the Master's degree in Spanish Monarchy and the Master's degree in Philosophy of History (UAM).
His most recent academic management roles include Vice-Chancellor of the UAM (2008-2017) and Director of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (2017-2025).
He has more than a hundred publications to his name, including books, book editions, book chapters and journal articles.
His main lines of research are court life and the government of the Spanish monarchy, particularly in the Italian territories.
He is the principal investigator of the project ‘El Madrid Americano. Patrimonios compartidos y rutas turísticas en la Comunidad de Madrid, siglos XVI-XXI’ (AmerMad2-CM), PHS-2024/PH-HUM-184, and was the principal investigator for the H2020-MSCA-RISE project ‘Failure: Reversing the Genealogies of Unsuccess, 16th-19th centuries’ (Grant Agreement 823998), 2019-2024.
He has been a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History since 2010 and a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan since 2002.
He has been a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais in Lisbon, a visiting professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and the Department of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, and a guest lecturer at the Éc
