Cristina BRAVO LOZANO

Cristina Bravo Lozano holds a PhD in Early Modern History from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), a Tomás y Valiente Research Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS), and is currently a Permanent Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Madrid, having been accredited as Associate Professor.

Her research interests include Spanish-Irish relations in the seventeenth century; the diplomatic and cultural activities of Spanish embassies in London, The Hague, Copenhagen, and Hamburg following the Treaties of Westphalia (1648–1702); and the confessional policies of Charles II in Northern Europe.

She is the author of three monographs, including Spain and the Irish Mission, 1609–1707 (New York: Routledge, 2019). She has co-edited thirteen books and five special journal issues, and has published extensively in leading academic journals and edited volumes. She has been awarded a six-year research period recognized by ANECA. She has participated in numerous national and international seminars and conferences and has organized academic meetings in Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, and Hungary. Her academic activity has been complemented by teaching at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels at several European universities.

Her main research areas include Spanish-Irish relations in the seventeenth century; Spanish diplomatic activity and confessionalism in Northern Europe during the reign of Charles II; the role of women in political negotiation during the final decades of the House of Habsburg; and the response of the Spanish Monarchy to the Scottish settlement in Darién (1695–1707).