Research team

Agata Ignaciuk

Principal investigator. She is Associate Professor of the History of Science in the Department of Pathological Anatomy and History of Science at the University of Granada and a researcher at the University Institute for Research in Women’s and Gender Studies at the same university. She is also a guarantor member of the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS) at the University of Granada and co-leads the Working Group on healthcare providers in the COST CA22159 – National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000 (EuroHealthHist) network. Her main line of research is the history of reproductive health and reproductive rights. She has published widely on the history of contraception and abortion in the 20th century. Academic profile: https://agataignaciuk.com/

 

Lidia Bocanegra

Co-principal investigator. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada. Her main lines of research are Digital History, Digital Humanities and Citizen Humanities applied to research projects in Contemporary History: exiles, participatory methodologies and digital identities. She has published extensively on public participation in humanities research projects from the perspective of citizen science methodology. Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Migration Studies and guarantor member of the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS), both at the University of Granada. Academic profile: https://hcommons.org/members/lbocanegra/

 

Josefa Dolores Ruiz Resa

Joseloli Ruiz  is Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Granada. Her research lines are science, technology, law and society; anti-discrimination law and citizenship; legal-social thought in democratic and autocratic systems. She has extensive experience in the field of law and gender. She is currently a lawyer at the Spanish Constitutional Court.

 

Mikel Astrain

Mikel Astrain is Associate Professor of History Science in the Department of Pathological Anatomy and History of Science at the University of Granada. He is the editor of the journal Dynamis and chair of the Department of Pathological Anatomy and History of Science. He has worked on medicine and the scientific enlightenment and the analysis of medical practice in the kingdom of Granada. He has extensive experience in public engagement and knowledge transfer.

 

María Mundi-López

María Mundi-López holds a Degree in Medicine from the University of Granada (2022) and a Master’s Degree in History of Science, Knowledge and Techniques from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (2024). She is currently a FPU PhD candidate at the University of Granada in co-supervision with EHESS, with a thesis project entitled “Medication abortion: the socio-history of a transnational practice at the crossroads of medical, militant and lay knowledge.”

 

Elisa Roncone

Elisa Roncone graduated in Islamic Studies at La Sapienza University of Rome (2018) and continued her education with an Erasms Mundus Master’s Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies (GEMMA) at the Universities of Granada and Bologna (2022). Currently, she is a FPI PhD candidate in the Department of History of Science at the University of Granada.

 

Angela Lucia Agudelo-Gonzalez is an associate professor in the Department of Psychopedagogy at the University of Tolima, Colombia, and a doctoral researcher in the History of Medicine at the University of Granada, Spain. Her research explores motherhood and birth control in Colombia during the early 20th century. She holds an MA in Geography from the University of Andes and a BA in History from the University of Atlantic, both in Colombia. Her scholarly contributions include books and peer-reviewed articles focusing on public health, eugenics, and sociocultural histories of medicine in Colombia. Profile web:  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angela-Agudelo-Gonzalez

 

Christabelle Sethna

Dr. Christabelle Sethna is a historian and Full Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Using a feminist transnational framework, she does research on sex education, contraception, and abortion. She has co-edited or co-authored several articles, chapters, and books including (with Gayle Davis) Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Abortion Services (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and (with Steve Hewitt), Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (McGill-Queens University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a single-authored manuscript on the travel of Canadian woman for abortion services during the 1960s-1980s.

 

Maud Bracke

Maud Anne Bracke is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Glasgow, specialising in post-1945 gender, social and political history. She holds a PhD from the European University Institue, Florence, and has held visiting fellowships at Sciences Po Paris, University Federico II Naples, and Ghent University. he is the author of, among others, Women and the Reinvention of the Political: Feminism in Italy (Routledge 2014), and Reproductive Rights in modern France: Feminism, Contraception and Abortion (Oxford University Press, 2025 forthcoming). She has written numerous articles on 1968 in Europe, the sexual revolution, family planning movements, and transnational feminisms.

 

Maria Rentetzi

Maria Rentetzi is Professor and Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU). She is one of a handful of scholars working at the intersection of science and technology studies, nuclear diplomacy, and gender. Her research focuses on two intertwined areas of inquiry: the investigation of the politically and historically situated character of technoscience and the critical examination of gender as a major analytic category in technoscientific endeavors. She has been an affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (MPIWG), a guest professor at TU Berlin, a Silverman Professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, and a professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She joined FAU in January 2021.