Barcelona
Jordi Ibarz Gelabert
Associate Professor in the Contemporary History Section of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona, and member of the Research Group on Work, Institutions, and Gender (TIG). His main research focuses on labour history, particularly port labour history and, more recently, maritime history in general. He has participated in numerous research projects and is currently the principal investigator of the PortADa project, funded by the European Union. His publications include: “Fin del sistema gremial, liberalismo y desarrollo de unas relaciones de trabajo capitalistas en el puerto de Barcelona, 1834-1873” (2020) in Ayer; “Mujeres en la carga y descarga en los puertos españoles en los siglos XIX y XX”, with Mònica Borrell (2020), in Revista de Historia Industrial; and “From Corporations to Companies: The Development of Capitalism in Maritime Cargo Handling in the Port of Barcelona (c.1760-1873)”, with Brendan von Briesen (2022), in International Labor and Working-Class History. He co-edited the book Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition. Maritime Labour, Communities, Shipping and the Challenge of Industrialization, 1850s-1920s (2023), alongside Apostolos Delis and others.
Mònica Borrell Cairol
Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona. Member of the Research Group on Work, Institutions and Gender (TIG). She specialises in the social history of labour and gender. She has studied women’s labour in various economic sectors, including women’s work in port loading and unloading, and currently focuses on women shipowners. She is a member of the Ibero-American Network for Research on Maritime Communities (RIICoMa) and of the Interuniversity Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (iiEDG).
Enric García Domingo
Graduated in History and PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Barcelona. His thesis focused on labour in the Spanish merchant navy during the transition from sail to steam (1834–1914). He has published books and articles and presented numerous papers at national and international conferences. He is currently General Director of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Congress of Maritime Museums (ICMM). He also belongs to the Research Group on Work, Institutions and Gender (TIG) at the University of Barcelona..
Ricard Garcia Orallo
PhD in History from the University of Girona and lecturer at the University of Barcelona since 2021. His research has addressed rural land and capital markets (18th–20th centuries), the late 19th-century agrarian crisis, and the economic behaviour of Spanish and Catalan elites, among other topics. He has published over twenty articles in specialised journals (including The Economic History Review, Historia Agraria, Revista de Historia Industrial, and Revista de Historia Económica) and collective volumes. As a member of the research groups on Work, Institutions and Gender (University of Barcelona, currently) and Rural Societies History (University of Girona, 2002–2021), he has participated uninterruptedly in publicly and privately funded research projects since 2000, including several linked to digital humanities. He has taught at the University of Girona (2002–2021), ESADE (2003–2021), and the University of Barcelona (2008–2016).
Inmaculada González Sánchez
History graduate from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and certified specialist in maritime heritage recovery and educational programmes, a qualification awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Security. She is currently a curator at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona, where she has worked since 1994. She is responsible for the collection of nautical charts, ship plans, and documents, and manages the museum’s various research programmes, projects, awards, and research conferences. She is editor of Drassana, the museum’s journal, and the Estudis collection.
Olga López Miguel
Museologist and historian. Graduate in Modern History from the University of Barcelona and postgraduate in ICT applied to information management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Strategic Projects Manager at the Maritime Museum of Barcelona. Member of the Executive Committee of the Plan of Museums of Catalonia and Spain’s national correspondent for the European Museum Forum.
Pau Márquez Antón
Xavier Rubio Campillo
Director of the DIDPATRI-UB Research Group (Didactics and Heritage) at the University of Barcelona and Ramón y Cajal fellow at the same university. His main research line explores how digital approaches can be used to understand and teach about the human past. His transdisciplinary background helps him bridge the humanities, education, and computing, with the goal of exploring how computational research methods can foster a critical perspective on the past and its impact on today’s society.
Haley Anne Schwartz
Doctoral candidate and member of the DIDPATRI Research Group at the Department of Applied Didactics, University of Barcelona. Her research explores the application of textual analysis to the study of archaeological and heritage discourse, analysing linguistic patterns to examine temporal links between theories and approaches, compared to inherent geospatial data. Her aim is to highlight the influence of authorial narratives and perceptions on modern relationships with the past, and the role played by consumption and interpretation of heritage and archaeological discourse in the survival and visibility of heritage in the modern landscape.
