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Graduated from the University of Palermo, Bruno Pomara holds a PhD in Early Modern History from the University of the Republic of San Marino and the University of Valencia. He has been a visiting scholar at several distinguished academic centres, such as La Sapienza in Rome, Federico II in Naples,University of Nantes, Ca' Foscari in Venice, University of Cagliari, ZRS Koper, University of Trieste and University of Padua. In 2011, he was awarded the Young Researchers Prize by the Spanish Foundation for Modern History; in 2016, the Prize for Religious History by the Sangalli Institute in Florence; and in 2017, the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize by the University of Valencia.

He is the author of the monographs Bandolerismo, violencia y justicia en la Sicilia barroca (Madrid, CSIC, 2011); Refugiados. Los moriscos e Italia (Granada, Comares, 2022 – original edition in Italian, Florence, FUP, 2017) and Impresiones diplomáticas. La revuelta de las Alpujarras vistas por los embajadores venecianos (Valencia, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2022). He is one of the editors of the volume Identidades cuestionadas. Coexistencia y conflictos interreligiosos en el Mediterráneo (ss. XIV-XVIII) (Valencia, PUV, 2016), Poderosos, marginados y gente común: una historia de todos. Homenaje a Rafael Benítez Sánchez-Blanco (Valencia, Albatros, 2023), and of Minorités ethnico-religieuses dans l’Italie moderne. Installations et agentivité (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) (Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2025).

His current research focuses on the social history of migration, slavery and the conversion of religious minorities in the Mediterranean during the 16th and 17th centuries, exploring both global and local perspectives.

He has been the Editor-in-chief of Estudis. Revista de Historia Moderna and from December 2025 he is its Director.