Ana Struillou, Dr.
- SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow
- Office KO2-H-367
Postdoctoral project
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Ana Struillou is an early modern historian, with a particular interest in mobility and the transmission of material culture between Europe (mostly Spain) and North Africa. Before coming to UZH, she was a Past & Present Fellow (2023-2025) at the Institute of Historical Research in London.
Her first book project, derived from her doctorate (European University Institute, 2023), examines the material culture of different groups of Southern European and North African travellers across the Western Mediterranean from the early 16th until the mid-17th century. She has published widely on Mediterranean and Spanish history, and her work has appeared in the Mediterranean Historical Review, Past & Present, and the Journal of Early Modern History, among other fora.
At UZH, Ana will start work on her second book project, examining circulations between the Iberian, Ottoman, and Saadi empires during the long sixteenth century.
Publications
Monograph in preparation
«Across the Material Sea: People on the Move and their Things across the Early Modern Mediterranean».
Journal Articles
(forthcoming) «L’ombre du voyageur. Pratiques scripturaires itinérantes et mobilité transméditerranéenne (1570-1680)», Revue d’Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine.
August 2025 (forthcoming) «Mobility, Material Culture, and the Archive: A View from the Mediterranean», Journal of Early Modern History.
«Insights From a Travel Journal: Travel Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth Century Mediterranean», Mediterranean Historical Review, 38/1 (2023), pp. 71-92.
«Corps en mouvement et remèdes itinérants. Faire l’histoire de la santé pendant le voyage entre Espagne et Afrique du Nord (1530-1640)», E-Spania. Revue Interdisciplinaire d’études Hispaniques Médiévales et Modernes, 45 (2023).
https://journals.openedition.org/e-spania/47060
Edited issues
«Immobility», Past & Present Virtual Issue, 2025, gtaf014 (with Lamin Manneh and Malika Zehni).
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf014
Book chapters
2025 (in print) «Prosecuting Islam from Afar: Material Discourses in the Inquisitorial Judgement of Renegades», in: Anke Fischer Kattner, Sonja Kleij, and Thom Pritchard (ed.), Crisis in the Early Modern World, Amsterdam University Press.
2025 (in print) «Entangled Narratives: Imagining and Crossing Borders in the Mediterranean», in: Elena Paulino Montero, Antonio Urquizar Herrera, and Borja Franco Llopis (ed), Late Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of Islam across Europe: A Connected Memory, Brill (with Ognjen Krešić and Elena Paulino-Montero).
«From Segorbe to Pau: Morisco Diplomacy in France Before the Expulsion», in: Mercedes García-Arenal and Gerard Wiegers (ed.), The Morisco Diaspora and Morisco Networks across the Mediterranean, Leiden/Boston 2025, pp. 92–118.
Book Reviews (selected)
[Review of] «Matthew F. Rarey, Insignificant Things: Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic», in: Journal of Early Modern History, 28/4 (2024), pp. 351-353.
[Review of] «Mehdi Ghouirgate, Les Empires Berbères. Constructions et déconstructions d’un objet historiographique», in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā. The Journal of Middle East Medievalists, 32 (2024), pp. 616-618.
[Review of] «Isabelle Poutrin, Les convertis du Pape. Une famille de banquiers juifs à Rome au XVIe siècle», in: Revue Alarmer (2024).
[Review of] «Claire M. Gilbert, In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)», in: Annales HSS, 78/1 (2023), pp. 166-168.
[Review of] «Jocelyn Hendrickson, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press, 2021)», in: Journal of Early Modern History, 26/6 (2022), pp. 572-574.
[Review of] «Gilbert Buti/ Daniel Trichaud-Buti, Rouge Cochenille: Histoire d’un insecte qui colora le monde (CNRS Éditions, 2021)», in: Annales HSS, 77/3 (2022), pp. 606-609.