Jose M. Miura

José María Miura holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Seville. He taught at the Universities of Seville (1985-1993) and Huelva (1993-1998) before joining the Pablo de Olavide University as an associate professor in 1998. He has held various academic positions and has collaborated as director and lecturer in several postgraduate courses in Spain, Ecuador, France and Colombia, in addition to his university. He is co-director of the Master in Latin American History, Indigenous Worlds at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

He is the director of the Centro de Estudios e Investigación de la Religiosidad Andaluza (CEIRA), within the Andalusian Research Plan, (HUM-686), and collaborates in various research projects, both regional, national and international. He has published several books and is the author of more than fifty articles and scientific contributions related to the Andalusian reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and its Atlantic relations. Among them are those related to the mendicant orders, the confraternities or the female religiosity (the beatas), the social organization of space and the settlement systems.