Antonio ÁLVAREZ-OSSORIO ALVARIÑO
Director
Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño is the director of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) and the coordinator of the Project H2020-MSCA-RISE “FAILURE: Reversing the Genealogies of Unsuccess, 16th-19th centuries” (Grant Agreement number 823998), 2019-2023. Before that was Vicerrector para el Desarrollo de las Enseñanzas (2008-2009), Vicerrector para los Estudiantes y la Formación Continua (2009-2013) and Vicerrector para las Relaciones Institucionales y Empleabilidad in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2013-2017).
He received his Doctorate in early modern history in 1994 from the UAM. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the historical journals Hispania, Cheiron, Annali di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea and Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome, Italie et Méditerranée modernes et comtemporaines. He is an honorary member of the Real Academia de la Historia, and has been a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana of Milan since 2002. He is member of the "Comité sur l'Europe des Cours" of the Centre de Recherche du Châteu de Versailles. He was Senior Visiting Investigator at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of Lisbon, Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano and Guest Professor at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Autonomous University of Madrid Foundation (2009-2017) and the UAM-El País School of Journalism Foundation (2013-2017).
His research interests are focused on the court society and the way of life of the courtiers, and the government of the Spanish Italy.
He has published more than 100 articles and chapters of books. His most notable published included: Milán y el legado de Felipe II. Gobernadores y corte provincial en la Lombardía de los Austrias (Madrid, 2001); La República de las Parentelas: el Estado de Milán en la monarquía de Carlos II (Mantua, 2002); A. Álvarez-Ossorio (ed.), Famiglie, Nazioni e Monarchia. Il sistema europeo durante la Guerra di Sucessione spagnola, número monográfico de la revista Cheiron, 2003, 39-40; A. Álvarez-Ossorio y B. García García (eds.), La Monarquía de las Naciones. Patria, nación y naturaleza en la monarquía de España (Madrid, 2004); A. Álvarez-Ossorio, B. García y V. León (eds.), La pérdida de Europa. La Guerra de Sucesión por la monarquía de España (Madrid, 2007); B. García y A. Álvarez-Ossorio (eds.), Vísperas de sucesión. Europa y la monarquía de Carlos II (Madrid, 2015); A. Álvarez-Ossorio, C. Cremonini y E. Riva (eds.), The Transition in Europe between XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016) and A. Álvarez-Ossorio, B. Borello y N. Morales (eds.), Società cortigiana e spazio urbano: Madrid e Roma (secoli XVII-XVIII), journal Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica, n. 1/2017, Roma, Sapienza Università di Roma-Carocci.