Ofelia Rey Castelao Explained

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Ofelia Rey Castelao (born 1956) is a Galician historian, writer, and university professor. Focusing her research on women's history, she studies female migration and the insertion of Galician women in the literate culture.[1] Rey Castelao was awarded the (National History Prize of Spain) in 2022.[2]

Early life and education

Ofelia Rey Castelao was born in A Estrada, Pontevedra, Spain, in 1956.[3] [4]

After studying Geography and History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Rey Castelao obtained a degree in history in 1978, with her thesis receiving the Extraordinary Prize from that university.[5] That same year (1978), the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain awarded her the National Award for the Best Scholars.[6] In 1984, her doctoral thesis Spanish; Castilian: (El [[voto de Santiago]] en la España moderna (The vote of Santiago in modern Spain), presented at the same university, was awarded "outstanding cum laude", and she received again the Extraordinary Prize. In 1985, she received the Spanish; Castilian: Premio a las Tesis Doctorales de la Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra.

Career

Between 1979 and 1981, Rey Castelao was a research fellow of the Ministry of Education. In 1978 she began to work as a scholarship holder and assistant professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Geography and History of USC. In 1986, she became a professor, and in 2002, a full professor. In August 1990, she was appointed corresponding member for Spain and Mediterranean Europe of the Spanish; Castilian: Commission Internationale de Démographie Historique (International Commission of Historical Demography). Between 1990 and 2005, she was director of the journal Galician: Obradoiro de Historia Moderna (Workshop of modern history). Since 1992, she has directed several national and international research projects. Since 2002, she has been Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Santiago.[7] In July 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she was elected member of the French: Bureau de la Commission Internationale de Dèmographie Historique. In 2006, she was invited by the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, where she served as Director of Studies. From January 2006 to October 2009, she was the Coordinator of History and Art at the Spanish; Castilian: Agencia Nacional de Evaluación y Prospectiva.

Rey Castelao has been the director of several doctoral theses, as well as numerous other undergraduate dissertations.[8]

She is a member of the scientific committee of academic journals, such as Tiempos Modernos (Complutense University of Madrid), Revista de Investigaciones Históricas (University of Valladolid), Contrahistorias. La otra mirada de Clío (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Historia Social, Trocadero (University of Cádiz), Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Estudis (University of Valencia), among many others. She is a member of the advisory board of the History Library of the CSIC.

She has published twelve books and more than 100 chapters and articles, as well as papers at national and international conferences.

Awards and honours

Selected works

Essays in Spanish

Essays in Galician

Essays in French

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ediciones Nigratrea . nigratrea.es . web.archive.org . 13 February 2023 . gl . 21 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130621120338/http://nigratrea.es/dossier.php?idAutor=445 . 2013-06-21 .
  2. News: Ofelia Rey Castelao gana el Premio Nacional de Historia de España 2022 . 13 February 2023 . elDiario.es . 3 November 2022 . es.
  3. News: Ofelia Rey Castelao wins the National History Prize - Today Times Live . 13 February 2023 . todaytimeslive.com . 3 November 2022.
  4. Web site: Pagina nueva 1 . www.geocities.ws . 13 February 2023 . gl.
  5. Web site: Ofelia Rey Castelao. Currículum vítae . Universidad de Santiago de Compostela . Wayback Machine . 13 February 2023 . es .
  6. Web site: Biografía Ofelia Rey Castelao . aestrada.gal/ . 13 February 2023 . gl . 25 May 2010.
  7. Web site: Facultad de Geografía e Historia Universidade de Santiago de Compostela . www.usc.gal . 14 February 2023 . es.
  8. Web site: Tesis de universidades españolas a través del protocolo OAI-PMH By authors/directors "rey castelao, ofelia, 1956-, dir." . tdx.cesca.cat . web.archive.org . 14 February 2023 . es . 6 March 2016.
  9. Julio Hernández Borge y Domingo L. González Lopo (eds.): Mujer y emigración. Una perspectiva plural (p. 39). Actas del Coloquio Internacional Cátedra Unesco 226 sobre Migraciones. Santiago de Compostela, 23–24 November 2006.

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