Cecilia Tarruell

Cecilia Tarruell is the Sir John Elliott Junior Research Fellow in European History 1500–1800 at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Previously, she held the Newton International Fellowship at the History Faculty and Wolfson College (2016–2018) and was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2015–2016). She earned a joint doctorate in early modern history from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2015).

Her research focuses on the Spanish Empire's interactions with the Islamic world during the 16th–17th centuries, emphasizing human mobility, religious conversion, and socio-political dynamics amid warfare. Key projects include a monograph on voluntary migration and assimilation of Muslims, Jews, and Eastern Christians into the Spanish Empire, and another analyzing coerced mobility via captivity and enslavement in the early modern Mediterranean.

• Research Projects:
• "Mobility and Religious Conversion in the Early Modern Iberian World": Examines voluntary migration from Islamic lands to the Spanish Empire, focusing on conversion and assimilation.
• "Circulations between Christian and Islamic Lands": Investigates Christian captives/enslaved individuals in the Ottoman Empire and Morocco who later served the Spanish Habsburgs.

Her academic contributions span cultural, social, political, and religious history, with special attention to transnational dynamics and material culture.

• Awards: Newton International Fellowship (2016–2018), Max Weber Fellowship (2015–2016).