New Marie Curie Fellow José María Martín Humanes
Welcome to our new colleague, José María Martín Humanes. José María Martín Humanes holds a PhD in History from the University of Seville and specialises in the social, political, and cultural history of the Hispanic Empire.
His early research focused on frontier territories in late medieval and early modern Spain, with particular attention to structures of political power, jurisdictional articulation, and legal history in Andalusia. From this perspective, he examined mechanisms of governance, social control, and normative production in frontier spaces characterized by overlapping authorities, jurisdictional conflict, and continuous negotiation between institutions and local communities. The analysis of these normative frameworks and the social practices that sustained them gradually led his research toward the study of the boundaries, tensions, and zones of ambiguity between the public and the reserved in early modern societies.
His project at PRIVACY, Subaltern Privacy: Echoes of the Resistance in the Hispanic World (SUBPRIVACY), focuses on the historical study of privacy and intimacy as analytical categories, social practices, and situated experiences, with particular attention to subaltern contexts and ethno-religious minorities subject to processes of control and persecution. His work examines how individuals and communities persecuted negotiated, protected, or redefined spheres of reserve, control, and exposure in societies deeply shaped by moral, legal, and religious normativity, with the aim of reconstructing non-hegemonic forms of agency, resistance, and adaptation.