Juan Manuel Matés-Barco
Professor of History and Economic Institutions at the University of Jaen. Graduated in Geography and History from the University of Zaragoza and Doctor in History from the University of Granada. He has four six-year research periods with research experience in the field of public services and the economic evolution of contemporary Spain. He is a collaborator of several international magazines. He has made stays at the Università degli Studi di Firenze, at the European University Institute (Italy) and at the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3. He is head Researcher of the Group of Historical Studies on the Company (GEHESE-UJA), Researcher at the Permanent Seminar on Water, Territory, and the Environment: Public Policies and Citizen Participation. Coordinator of various research projects, and Director of the journal Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape (AYT/WAL).
María Vázquez-Fariñas
Lecturer in History and Economic Institutions Area (Department of Economic Theory and History) at the University of Malaga (Spain). Ph.D. in Social and Legal Sciences and Degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Cadiz. She is actively involved as a component of the Research Group of Historical Studies on the Enterprise (GEHESE-UJA). She has research stays in Spanish and foreign centres of recognized prestige, such as the School of Hispano American Studies (CSIC, Seville), the University Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, and the University of Cadiz. Her general lines of research focused on the economic and business history of nineteenth-century Cadiz (Andalusia, Spain), and the development of gas, water, and public services in contemporary Spain. She is author of many works on these subjects published in national and international journals and publishing houses, such as Marcial Pons, Routledge, Peter Lang, and Palgrave. Also, she participates in several research and teaching innovation projects and part of the Editorial Board of the Journal Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape (AYT/WAL) from 2018 to the present.
Maria Ana Bernardo
Assistant professor at the University of Evora and researcher at the CIDEHUS/EU research centre. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Evora. Her research interests are centred on Urban History, Sociability Practices, History of Leisure and Tourism, Political Elites and Social Stratification. She has participated in some projects funded by the Science and Technology
Ana Cardoso de Matos
Professor at the University of Evora and researcher at the CIDEHUS/UE research centre. Since 2007, she has been the coordinator at the University of Evora of the Erasmus Mundus Master TPTI – Techniques, patrimoines, territoires de l’industrie, and has taught at nine different international universities. She is member of the Comité d’historie de l’electricité et de l’enérgie de la Fondation EDF since 2012, member of the board of the International Railways History Association (IRHA) since 2013, and member of the Iberian Railway History Association since 2016. She is part of the Editorial Board of TST – Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones, and Journal of Energy History (JEHRHE), and member of the Scientific Committee of Patrimonio Industriale AIPAI (Italy); e-Phasistos. Revue d’histoire des techniques; Midas-Museums and Interdisciplinary Studies. She is part of several national and international projects and publishes regularly in both peer-reviewed journals and books from reputable publishers in the scientific community.
José Escalante Jiménez
Doctor in History from the University of Malaga. Director of the Royal Academy of Antequera. He is official Chronicler of the City of Antequera, Director of the Municipal Historical Archive of Antequera from 2005 to 2012, Archivist of the Municipal Historical Archive of Antequera, full member of the Illustrious Andalusian Society of Legal Historical Studies of Cordoba, and Academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Telmo in Malaga.
Antonio Rafael Fernández-Paradas
Doctor in Art History from the University of Malaga, with the doctoral thesis entitled “Historiography and methodologies of the History of furniture in Spain (1872–2011). A state of affairs”. Graduated in History of Art and Bachelor of Documentation from the University of Granada. Master in Expertise and Appraisal of Antiques and works of art from the University of Alcala de Henares. He is currently a Contract Professor at the University of Granada, where he teaches in the Department of Didactics of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, and teaches the Master’s Degree in Art and Advertising at the University of Vigo.
Doctor and Head Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Malaga. Specialised in Economic History and public services, especially business history, gas and electricity. She is principal researcher of the Research and Innovation Project of Excellence of the Government of Spain “La industria del gas en España: desarrollo y trayectorias regionales (1842–2008)”. She has carried out several research stays, including at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has won several awards, including the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado en Filosofía y Letras [Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Philosophy and Arts] for the History Department of the University of Malaga.
Leticia Gallego Valero
Ph.D. in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Jaen, lecturer of Applied Economics and member of the “Economía Aplicada Jaén” research group. She has participated in different research projects financed by provincial and regional institutions, having developed, in recent years, intense study and analysis work in the field of taxes on wastewater and the management of municipal wastewater treatment services. The analysis and study of different economic and fiscal aspects in the environmental field are the focus of her research, published in international journals.
Víctor Manuel Heredia-Flores
Associate Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Malaga. Graduate in Contemporary History and Ph.D. from the University of Malaga with the thesis entitled “Private management and municipalisation in the supply to the city of Malaga. The Torremolinos Water Business (1860–1930)”. He is a member of the project “Historical Statistics of Andalusia” of the Institute of Statistics of Andalusia. His research experience is in fields such as the history of education in Andalusia, the reconstruction of regional historical statistical series and industrial history and public services.
Carlos Larrinaga
Reader in Economic History at the University of Granada (Andalusia, Spain). His research is focused on the history of tourism, railways in the nineteenth century and the service sector. He has led four interdisciplinary projects on the history of tourism in the twentieth century, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the ERDF funds. He has undertaken research in several stays at Bordeaux-Montaigne University or at Aberystwyth University, among other.
Doctor of Law with European mention and extraordinary prize (University of Barcelona, 2010). She graduated in Law (2001) and in Political and Administration Sciences (2006). LL.M. (Greifswald University, 2001–2002). Diploma of the European Academy of Public Law (Greece, 2003). She was a fellow of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2003–2006) and assistant professor (2006–2008) in the Department of Administrative Law at the University of Barcelona. As of 2009, she joined the Administrative Law Area of the Faculty of Law and Economic and Business Sciences of the University of Cordoba, where she is currently a Full Professor. She has carried out research stays in Cordoba, Florence, Frankfurt, Heidelberg and at the Universidad Externado de Bogotá. She has published three monographs and various articles and book chapters and has done translations from German and Italian. She has two six-year research periods.
Alberte Martínez-López
Professor of Economic History at the University of A Coruña, where he coordinates the Business History Study Group. He has carried out research and teaching stays at universities in Europe and America. His lines of research are business history, utilities (transport, energy, water), foreign investment, and livestock. Related to these issues, he has published several articles in prestigious publishers (Routledge, Peter Lang, Marcial Pons, Síntesis, Sílex), and in high-impact Spanish (Ayer, Historia Agraria, Revista de Historia Industrial, Asclepio, Investigaciones de Historia Económica) and international journals (Business History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of Urban Technology, Continuity and Change, The Journal of Transport History). He has coordinated several research projects and contracts with companies and institutions.
Jesús Mirás Araujo
Senior Lecturer of Economic History at the University of A Coruña. B.Sc. Economics (University of Santiago de Compostela), M.Sc. Economics (University of A Coruña), and Ph.D. Economics (University of A Coruña). He holds three six-year research periods. His main research interests are on urban history, business history and public utilities (gas, electricity, water, transport), and port and maritime history. He is author and editor of several books about these topics, chapters in Peter Lang, Routledge or Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, and articles in Business History, Continuity and Change, Urban History or Journal of Urban History. He has participated in several research projects, and also in contracts with companies. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Economics and Business Modelling, and previously member of the Editorial Board of TST. Transportes, Servicios y Telecomunicaciones.
Ph.D. in Economics and Business at the University of Malaga (Spain). Teacher in the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Jaen (Spain). The analysis and study of different economic aspects related to urban wastewater are the focus of her latest research work, published in international journals. She has been the main person in charge of different research projects financed by national institutions and visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon in Portugal and at the Hochschule Furtwangen University in Germany. Arco Iris Award 2014, José Luis Sampedro Award for the best communication presented at the XVI World Economy Meeting held in Cadiz on June 2014, UNICAJA 2007 Award for Agricultural Research; Essay Prize Jaen 2001. She is Co-director of the EXTENDA Chair of Internationalization at the University of Jaen. She has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences at the University of Jaen and Director of the Secretariat for Scholarships, Aid and Student Services at the University of Jaen.
Jesús Raúl Navarro García
Scientific researcher for the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the History Institute’s Department of Art and Heritage in Madrid. He holds a B.A. in Geography and History (Universities of Zaragoza and Seville), an M.A. in Landscape Protection, Management and Planning from the University of Seville, and a Ph.D. in the History of America from the University of Seville. He has been the director of the School of Hispano-American Studies (EEHA, CSIC) in the city of Seville for almost ten years. He is editor and co-founder of the journal Agua y Territorio / Water and Landscape (AYT/WAL) and also of the EEHA’s Permanent Workshop on Water, Territory, and the Environment. He is the lead researcher of the Nature, Territory, and Cultural Imaginaries research group (CSIC) and a member of the Territorial Structures and Systems research group with investigators from Seville and Pablo de Olavide universities. He has five six-year research periods and five quinquenios. His research has focused on the colonial policy of Spanish liberalism, water supply and treatment in rural Spain, and the historical landscape in thermal villages.
Nuria Rodríguez Martín
Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Ph.D. in History from the Complutense University in 2013. She has been the recipient of several fellowships, including a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Malaga University (2019–2020), and a Juan de la Cierva-Fellowship in the Department of Modern History at the University of the Basque Country (2016–2017). She also holds a BA in Journalism (1995) and MA in Mass Communication, Information and Propaganda from the Complutense
Isabel María Román Sánchez
Ph.D. in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Almeria (2004), professor of Applied Economics, member of the research group “Environmental Economics and Natural Resources”, belongs to CIESOL (Centre for Research in Energy Solar), has been a collaborating researcher in different research projects of the National Plan and the Junta de Andalucía, related to the purification and regeneration of wastewater. She has developed extensive research work in the field of water and environmental taxes and has published in numerous national and international journals. She has been Vice-Rector for Infrastructures, Campus and Sustainability at the University of Almeria, Director of the Social Affairs Secretariat and is currently coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Accounts Auditing at the University of Almeria.
Rubén Sánchez Guzmán
Degree in Art History from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He currently works as a professor of Art History and Knowing Madrid at the Cultural Centres of the Madrid City Council (Educo-Activities). He has been a teacher of the I Master in Spanish Baroque Sculpture. Since the golden centuries the information society and social networks taught by the International University of Andalusia and Expert Appraiser in Antiques and Works of Art. Art Department. Lamas Bolaño Madrid Auction Room. Performing the functions of appraisal, cataloguing and personalized advice.
María José Vargas-Machuca Salido
Graduate in Economic and Business Sciences from the University of Navarra and Ph.D. from the University of Jaen. Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Jaen, where she teaches the subject of the Spanish Financial System in various degrees. She belongs to various research groups and teams related to her area of knowledge. Her research has focused on the history of the financial system, especially at the local level, a subject on which she has published several articles in specialized journals and chapters in collective works published by renowned national and international publishers.