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Vera Moya Sordo

Economics · Universidad de Navarra

https://researchid.co/wunderzimmer170676
@portalcientifico.unav.edu
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Biography

Mexican archaeologist and historian interested in shipwreck processes, fears and mutinies on board, European naval services, and privateering. Researcher at the University of Navarra (2022-2024), collaborator at the Subdirectorate of Underwater Archaeology at INAH-Mexico (2000-2009), Nautical Archaeology Society (UK) Tutor. Member of the international research group Contractor State Group (UNAV). Marcos and Celia Maus Prize and the Alfonso Caso Medal for MA and PhD studies (UNAM). NextGenerationEU (UNAV, Pamplona) and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow (LMU-Munich). Articles in International Journal of Maritime History, RiMe, Review of Social History, Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, and Tiempos Modernos. Books (coord.): Arqueología Marítima en Mexico (INAH, 2012), Imperios de corsarios y piratas (RUHM 2021), and with Torres-Sánchez, Los corsarios y el negocio de la guerra en la Edad Moderna (Albatros, 2025).

Education

PhD in History (2015) Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (FYL-UNAM). Dissertation: “Motines a bordo: rebelión, violencia y poder en el escenario de las instituciones navales inglesa, francesa y española (finales del siglo XVIII-principios del XIX). Una reflexión comparativa”. MA in History (2011) Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico (FYL-UNAM). Dissertation: “Manifestaciones de miedo durante la navegación ibérica atlántica, mediados del siglo XV a principios del XVII”. Bachelor in Archaeology (2...

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. The repair of navy ships in Cartagena de Indies in the mid seventeenth century: The case of the Santiago and her loss in the Caribbean
    International Journal of Maritime History, 2024

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