Manuel Herrero Sánchez - Curriculum Vitae#
Manuel Herrero is Full Professor of Early Modern History at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998 and taught as a research fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the Istituto Benedetto Croce of Naples, the Center for the History of European Expansion (IGEER) in Leiden University, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, Liège University and at the Institute of History (CSIC) in Madrid. Visiting Scholar in 2016 at the Department of History in Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz, Germany and Visiting Scholar in 2017 in École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
His research focuses on the comparative approach to the history of the mercantile republics of the Netherlands and Genoa, and on the complex constitution of the Hispanic Monarchy, Europe’s first transnational, polycentric and global empire. Other areas of research include Atlantic History and models of European expansion.
Principal Investigator of the following research projects:
- A Monarchical Res Publica. The Spanish Monarchy, A Polycentric Imperial Structure of Urban Republics (funded by Spanish Government 2019-2022).
- VIVIR (Villes rebelles, villes réprimées) Plurianual project in collaboration with Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio and Alain Hugon funded by the Casa de Velázquez École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (EHEHI) (2016-2019)
- The polycentric model of shared sovereignty (XVI-XVIII centuries). An alternative path for the construction of the Modern State (funded by Spanish Government 2013-2018) https://www.upo.es/investiga/polycentricstates
- Along with Salvador Bernabéu: Europa y América: Circulación, transferencia y conflicto, Departamento de Geografía, Historia y Filosofía de la UPO, Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, and Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Instituto de Historia, CSIC.
- The Role of European Republics in the Formation of the Modern State. Modernising Alternative, or Driving Force of the System? (16th-18th centuries) (funded by Spanish Government 2010-2013)
- Supervisor of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) PEOPLE for Klemens Kaps project Merchants Networks in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (2013-2015).
He is also a member of the following research projects:
- Columnaria network, Red Temática de Investigación sobre las Fronteras de las Monarquías Ibéricas http://www.um.es/redcolumnaria/
- The Hispanic Baroque, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2007-2013)
- A Génese do Direito Internacional. Leituras Políticas da Bíblia e o Legado Ibérico, Fundaçao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal (2012-2015).
- Cultures des Révoltes et Révolutions (CURR) Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France (2014-2017).
He belongs to the External Scientific Advisory Board of the following ERC projects:
- Starting Grant Disasters, Communication and Politics in South-Western Europe: the Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age (DisComPoSE) IP : Domenico Cecere, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy (2018-2023).
- Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries (RESISTANCE), H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 IP : Mafalda Soares da Cunha, Universidade de Evora, Portugal (2018-2022). http://www.resistance.uevora.pt
- Vice-rector of Research and Technology Transfer of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville (2010-2012).
- Académico correspondiente, Real Academia de la Historia española since 22 December 2017.
He has supervised 8 doctoral theses and is currently the supervisor of 6 others.
Director with Giovanni Levi and Bartolomé of the Doctorate Programm Estudios sobre Europa, el mundo mediterráneo y su difusión Atlántica (2004-2014). Member of the Academic Commission of the Doctorate Programme in Hª y Estudios Humanísticos Universidad Pablo de Olavide since 2014.
Project Evaluator of numerous regional, national and international institutions: ANEP (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva de España) since April 2006 ; the Italian ANVUR ; the Belgian FWO ; CNA in Colombia ; Casa de Velázquez in Madrid.
Member of the editorial board of the journal Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, Espacio Tiempo y Forma, Editorial Albatros, Estudios Americanos. Tierra Nueva and Estudios Americanos. Perspectivas CSIC.
External reviewer for the following journals: Hispania, Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Obradoiro de Historia Moderna, Geneaología y Heráldica, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, Revista de Indias, Chronica Nova.
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