Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo

Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo is Senior Lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Granada (Spain). She conducted her post-doctoral research period at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri, USA), where she taught courses on History of al-Andalus. Her main area of specialization is the History, Society, and Culture of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, in particular the study of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (13th–15th centuries) and the study of both Andalusi and Maghribian women. She has directed two National Research Projects on “Nasrid
and Merinid Women in the Islamic Societies of the Medieval Mediterranean
(13th–15th centuries): Power, Identity, and Social Dynamics” (HAR2017-88117-P) and “From Nasrid to Morisco Women: Daily Lives, Influences, and socio-cultural (dis)continuities in the inner-history of the peninsular context (13th–16th centuries)”, respectively.

She has delivered a number of papers at international conferences and prepared several publications on these topics. Among them are the book “Las Sultanas de la Alhambra. Las grandes desconocidas del Reino Nazarí de Granada (siglos XIII–XV) (2013)” and the edition of the monography “A Companion to Islamic Granada” (Brill, 2021).

She is currently a Member of the University Institute of Research on Women and Gender at the University of Granada and Vice-Secretary of Cultural and Institiutional Cooperation at the Euro-Arab Fundation in Granada.