RAUL
MINGUEZ BLASCO

With a BA in History (2008), a MA in Modern History (2009) and a PhD in Modern History from the University of Valencia (UV), I has held a FPI pre-doctoral research fellowship, awarded by the Department of Education of the Valencia regional government, at the Department of Modern History, UV (2009-2013), and three post-doctoral research fellowship grants awarded by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Juan de la Cierva-incorporación, 2018-2019) and the European Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie, 2019-2021). I am currently working the University of the Basque Country thanks to a Ramón y Cajal contract awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. My PhD thesis, for which I was awarded the 7th Miguel Artola Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Modern History in 2015, addresses Catholicism, gender and models of femininity in nineteenth-century Spain. I have also performed research on women’s education and the feminisation of teaching in Spain from the end of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. I has participated in 9 research projects, most of them funded by the Spanish Government, and published 19 articles in specialised journals including Arenal, Gender and History, Educació i Història, Ayer, Hispania Sacra, Journal of Religious History, Feminismo/s and Historia Contemporánea. I have also participated as a reviewer of 14 different academic journals and edited a special issue about Gender and Catholicism in Modern Spain in the Journal of Religious History. My monograph, Evas, Marías y Magdalenas. Género y modernidad católica en la España liberal (1833-1874) was published by the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in 2016. The research project in which I has been involved for the last five years aims at analysing the identity-construction of Catholic women who participated in the transformation of Catholicism because of the Second Vatican Council. From a comparative approach, my intention is to contrast this process with that carried out by women linked to the Church of England, specifically the Anglican Communion, during the last third of the twentieth century. I has already published some partial results of this research in journal papers and conference communications, and hopes to publish a monograph on this subject in the mid-term. Regarding my teaching experience, I lectured at the UV during three academic years, first as a teaching assistant and then as a teaching fellow. I has also been a teaching assistant at the Biscay branch of the National Distance Learning University (UNED), at the University of Leeds between 2019 and 2021 and a secondary school teacher (I became a civil servant in 2022 after passing a public examination). I am teaching now at the University of the Basque Country in the degrees of Journalism, Sociology and Political Sciences. I has completed four research stays: a one two-month pre-doctoral stay at the Autonomous University of Madrid, a one three-month pre-doctoral stay at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) (Paris, France); one five-month post-doctoral stay at the University of Leeds (UK); and one two-month stay at the University of Glasgow (UK). Finally, in regards to my dissemination activity, I organised three conferences open to general public about religion and gender at the University of the Basque Country and at the University of Leeds, I chaired two workshops about religion and modernity and religion and gender in two conferences held by the Spanish Modern History Association, I has published in informative digital journals such as La Gaceta de los Miserables, Tribuna Feminista o The Conversation and I am a member of the governing board of the Spanish Association of Modern Religious History (AEHRC) since 2023.