Eduardo Corona Pérez

Eduardo Corona Pérez is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. As a member of the BADEMS project, he is responsible for finding and tracking the life and work of Black cultural agents in the historical archives of Lower Andalusia. 

He graduated with a PhD from the University of Seville in 2021, where he was then awarded a Margarita Salas postdoctoral contract. During that time, he conducted a research stay at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil). His historiographical work has been devoted to the social and comparative study of slavery in Seville and its archbishopric during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, being recently extended to eighteenth-century Minas Gerais.

He is the author of the monograph Trata atlántica y esclavitud en Sevilla (ca. 1500-1650) (University of Seville Press, 2022) and co-editor of the books Esclavas, horras y libres. Historias de mujeres en los mundos ibéricos (siglos XVI-XIX) (University of Seville Press, 2023) and El conocimiento como innovación. Nuevas propuestas didácticas para la enseñanza universitaria de la Edad Moderna (Dykinson, 2024). He has also coordinated the dossiers Esclavos: del debate historiográfico al gran público (Andalucía en la Historia) and Esclavitud, cotidiano y dinámicas de mestizajes en los mundos ibéricos (siglos XVI-XVIII): espacios, movilidad, acuerdos y conflictos (Varia Historia). He has published more than twenty scientific articles and book chapters, as well as several reviews and outreach works. In addition, he has participated in over 40 scientific meetings in Spain, Portugal, Austria, the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, and Peru.