Mónica Bolufer Peruga joins the History Department as Chair in Early Modern History. She is a cultural and gender historian specialising in 18th century history of the Iberian world. Before joining the EUI, she was Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Valencia, where she was Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded research project 'Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies (CIRGEN)'.
M’hamed Oualdi is a historian of Europe and North Africa in the world in the long 19th century. Prior to joining the EUI, he was full professor at Sciences Po-Paris, assistant, and then associate professor at Princeton University (2013-2019) and maître de conferences at Inalco-Paris (2010-2013). He is currently supervising the ERC-funded research project, ‘SlaveVoices’, on the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s.
Alexia Yates is a historian of economic life, focusing on urban history and the history of capitalism in modern Europe, particularly France. In her research and teaching, she pursues the challenge of how we might enliven critical political economy approaches to capitalism with a humanist agenda. Empirically, she has focused on two key domains: real estate and its impact on the urban experience, and finance, especially the cultural and social history of mass investment. She joins the EUI from the University of Manchester.
Igor Iwo Chabrowski has joined the History Department as a part-time professor in the framework of the EUI Widening Europe Programme. Since 2018, he is also an assistant professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Igor’s research focuses on the late Qing and modern Chinese history, the history of Thailand, and global history. Currently he is a Principal Investigator of the National Science Centre’s financed grant, ‘The Foothold: China, Southeast Asia, and the Global Revolution at the Margins, 1945-1954’.