Fitxa persona

Degree in Geography and History (1984) and PhD in Modern History (1988) from the University of Valencia. Extraordinary Degree Award (1985) and Doctorate (1989). He has been Assistant Professor of Modern History (1989), Interim Professor (1990), Associate Professor (1991) and Professor of Modern History (2016) at the University of Valencia. Throughout his academic and teaching career he has held different positions and responsibilities. He has been secretary of the Department of Modern History and the Faculty of Geography and History, member of the editorial board of the journals Crime, Histoire et Société and Revista de Historia Moderna (Anales de la Universidad de Alicante), secretary of Estudis. Revista d’Història Modenra, IP of 2 research projects subsidized in competitive calls and principal investigator in 7 more projects. He has been director and co-director of 4 doctoral theses and, currently, directs and co-directs 4 more theses. He has participated in different national and international conferences and is the author of numerous books, chapters, scientific articles, reviews, etc. His studies are articulated around six main lines of research: A) Criminal justice, criminality, punishment and social control mechanisms, B) Poverty, marginalization, assistance and socially vulnerable groups, C) Power, elites, nobility and political institutions, D) Mentalities, religiosity and symbolic construction of the social order, E) the Germania of Valencia and political and social conflict in Valencia in the early sixteenth century and F) Cultural and intellectual history: Humanism, Erudition and Enlightenment. Within this last facet of his research activity, the book Moradas de Apolo. Palacios, ceremoniales y academias en la Valencia del Barroco (1679-1707) [Valencia, 2010] and the extensive study entitled «Gregorio Mayans y el Humanismo Crítico europeo» (Valencia, 1999).