Antonio Alvarez-Ossorio Alvariño

Antonio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño is Professor of Early Modern History at the UAM. He has been director of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) between 2017 and 2025. He has been honoured with the Cátedra Silvio Zavala of the Colegio de México in 2025. He received the medal of the French institution Casa de Velázquez in 2025. He is the principal investigator of the project “El Madrid Americano. Patrimonios compartidos y rutas turísticas en la Comunidad de Madrid, siglos XVI-XXI” (AmerMad2-CM), PHS-2024/PH-HUM-184, 2025-2027 and has been the principal investigator of the Project H2020-MSCA-RISE “Failure: Reversing the Genealogies of Unsuccess, 16th-19th centuries” (Grant Agreement 823998), 2019-2024.  Before that was Vicerrector para el Desarrollo de las Enseñanzas (2008-2009), Vicerrector para los Estudiantes y la Formación Continua (2009-2013) and Vicerrector para las Relaciones Institucionales y Empleabilidad (2013-2017) in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He recived his Doctorate in early modern history in 1994 from the UAM. He is member of the editorial board of the series "Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions" published with Routledge. Together with Cinzia Cremonini, he is director of the series "Storie d'Europa" published with UniCatt.  He is a member of the Academic Committee of the historical journals Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Cheiron, Annali di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome, Italie et Méditerranée modernes et comtemporaines, Rivista Mo.Do and Mediterranea-Ricerche Storiche. He is an honorary ("correspondiente") member of the Real Academia de la Historia since 2010, and has been a member of the Accademia Ambrosiana of Milan since 2002.  Member of the International Scientific Council of the Doctorate in History of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú since 2018. Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Study "RomanIslam. Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies" at the University of Hamburg since 2019. He was Senior Visiting Investigator at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of Lisbon, Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Visiting Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Guest Professor at the École Normale Supérieure of Lyon and Visiting Scholar in Hispanic Studies at Brown University. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Autonomous University of Madrid Foundation (2009-2017) and the UAM-El País School of Journalism Foundation (2013-2017). Founder of the "Red Sucesión" in 2012 and coordinator of the network together with Bernardo García between 2012 and 2021. His research interests are focused on the court society and the way of life of the courtiers, and the government of the Spanish Italy. His most notable published included: Milán y el legado de Felipe II. Gobernadores y corte provincial en la Lombardía de los Austrias (Madrid, 2001); La República de las Parentelas: el Estado de Milán en la monarquía de Carlos II (Mantua, 2002); A. Álvarez-Ossorio, B. García García (eds.), La Monarquía de las Naciones. Patria, nación y naturaleza en la monarquía de España (Madrid, 2004); A. Álvarez-Ossorio, B. García, V. León (eds.), La pérdida de Europa. La Guerra de Sucesión por la monarquía de España (Madrid, 2007); B. García, A. Álvarez-Ossorio (eds.), Vísperas de sucesión. Europa y la monarquía de Carlos II (Madrid, 2015); A. Álvarez-Ossorio, C. Cremonini, E. Riva (eds.), The Transition in Europe between XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016); C. Bravo, A. Álvarez-Ossorio (eds.), Los embajadores. Representantes de la soberanía, garantes del equilibrio, 1659-1748, Madrid, 2021; A. Álvarez-Ossorio, R. Quirós y Olaya Sanfuentes (cords.), "La monarquía de las devociones: el gobierno de la piedad en la monarquía de España (siglos XVI-XVIII)", número monográfico, Tiempos Modernos, 46, 2023; A. Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, James Amelang, María Luz González Mezquita y Saúl Martínez Bermejo (coords.), Vidas fallidas. Aproximaciones al concepto de éxito y fracaso individual en la modernidad, Mar del Plata, EUDEM, 2023; A. Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño, R. Quirós Rosado y C. Bravo Lozano (eds.), Las noblezas de la monarquía de España (1556-1725), Madrid, Marcial Pons Historia, 2024; A. Álvarez-Ossorio, G. Bautista y Lugo, A. Ceccarelli, V. Favarò y B. A. Raviola (eds.), Beyond the borders. Percorsi e nuove prospettive di ricerca tra Mediterraneo e Atlantico (Secc. XVI-XX), Palermo, New Digital Frontiers, 2024; A. Álvarez-Ossorio, Pilar Ponce Leiva y Víctor Peralta Ruiz (eds.), El Madrid americano. Patrimonios interconectados, siglos XVI-XIX, Madrid, Ediciones UAM, 2024; and A. Álvarez-Ossorio, C. Bravo y R. Quirós (eds.), Bifronte imperio de dos mundos. La monarquía de Carlos II en Europa y América, Madrid, Iberoamericana, 2025.
Address: Madrid, Madrid, Spain