Date of granting: 7 july 2017.
By proposal of: Faculty of Geography and History.
Date of deliverance: 19 january 2018.
Isabel Morant Deusa (Almoines, 1947) is an emeritus full university professor at the Universitat de València. She is historian, feminist and writer. She first studied teacher training and then history in the Universitat de València, where she received a doctorate in Geography and History.
She has been professor of the Department of Modern History, and was vice-principal of University Extension between 1984 and 1990. In this period, she organised the first cycle of feminist studies and the Universitat d’Estiu de Gandia. Since 1990, she is the director of ‘Colecció Feminismes’ (Feminisms Collection). She is author of the books ‘Amor, matrimonio y familia: la construcción histórica de la familia moderna’ (1998) and ‘Discursos de la vida buena: matrimonio, mujer y sexualidad en la literatura humanista’ (2002), among others.
She worked at every academic level in the Departments of Modern history and Contemporary History at the Universitat de València: research professor, assistant professor, leading-course professor, intern associate professor and university chair until her retirement.
She has been for academic purposes at the Margerithe Durand and the Nationale de France libraries and at the Autonomous National University of Mexico.
Morant was member pf the Valencian Committee for Culture between 2004 and 2011 and in 2007 she was awarded with the first prize of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) for the Encouragement of Equality in Knowledge.
