Magdelena Diaz Hernández

Magdalena Díaz Hernández is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona within the BADEMS project. She currently investigates the cultural legacy of Afro-Hispanic communities in early modern Granada.

She graduated with a PhD in History from the University of Seville in 2014, carrying out her research at different national and international institutions, such as the University of Granada, the Institute of Historical Research of the Autonomous University of Mexico and Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute (Mexico). She also taught as a lecturer at the University of Huelva, the University of Murcia and the University of Querétaro (Mexico). Her research has been devoted to the study of conflicts between Indigenous American and Black populations. She has worked as well with a wide variety of disinformation sources in the Iberian-Atlantic framework (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries).

She has published articles in Mexican Studies,Anuario de Estudios Americanos, eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, Chronica Nova, andNaveg@merica.