Paula González Fons

Paula González Fons is a Researcher in the Department of History at the European University Institute (EUI). She specializes in the early modern history of the Hispanic world, focusing on institutional migration and knowledge transfer, particularly the silk industry transfer between the Iberian Peninsula and New Spain (1520–1620). Her work examines economic and social histories, with a cohort affiliation from 2021.

Her research interests include global economic history, guild systems, and labor dynamics. Recent publications analyze apprenticeship futures in Valencia’s silk guilds and labor market dynamics in the same context. She is supervised by Giorgio Riello, with Lauren Kassell as her second reader.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in her profile. She is associated with the EUI’s Department of History and contributes to research clusters on methods in early modern history.