Cristina Blanco Sío-López

Prof. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Tenured Associate Professor in Contemporary History and Sociology at the University of La Coruña (UDC), Spain. She is also a Research Affiliate at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) and a Life Member and Fellow at Clare Hall, the College of Advanced Studies at the University of Cambridge.

During the academic year 2024-2025 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. In 2024 she received the ‘María Moliner’ Spanish National Research Award in the Humanities from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. She was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the NextGenerationEU ‘FREEMOVEU’ and ‘FUNDEU’ and was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she directed the EU H-2020 project ‘NAVSCHEN’ as PI. She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member. She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization –with a specialization in European Integration History– at the European University Institute of Florence and received the FAEY’s Best PhD Thesis Award 2008.

Currently, she is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS); Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and Corresponding Member of the Young Academy of Spain. From 2021-2023 Prof. Blanco Sío-López was Executive Committee Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA), based at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’.

Her research and publications focus on European Integration History with an accent on: EU enlargement policy narrative temporalities; the Schengen Area fundamental human mobility rights and sustainable factors of peace studied through the Arts and shared via Digital Humanities conceptual maps.