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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 University in Rome, Federico II University in Naples, Nantes University, Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Cagliari University, ZRS Koper, and Trieste University. 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) and of Poderosos, marginados y gente común: una historia de todos. Homenaje a Rafael Benítez Sánchez-Blanco (Valencia, Albatros, 2023).

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.

Since January 2025, he has been the scientific secretary of Estudis. Revista de Historia Moderna.