Sandra Suarez Garcia

Dr. Sandra Suárez García is a Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Modern, Contemporary and American History, History of Thought and Social and Political Movements (University of Murcia), affiliated with the COLUMNARIA research group (History and Territorial Dynamics of Iberian Worlds). With a PhD in History from the University of Granada (2022), she specializes in Late Medieval and Early Modern History, focusing on

• Medieval Islamic Spain
• Women in 16th Century Spanish Armies
• War and Gender Dynamics
• Historiographic Methodology
• Cultural Memory Studies

Her recent publications explore military treatises through gender lenses, analyzing topics like amancebamiento (soldier-concubinage) and prostitution control in sixteenth-century armies. She has contributed to debates on Nasrid social elites, Granada's transition to Castilian rule, and modern cultural representations of medieval history through digital media. A 2022 Juan de la Cierva Formación grant recipient, she actively participates in international conferences including the

• Society for the History of War (2023)
• PIMo Cost Action Workshop (2023)
• University of Oxford Material Culture Conference (2023)

Her methodological approach combines documentary analysis with interdisciplinary frameworks spanning art history, archaeology, and digital humanities.