Natalia Núñez Bargueño is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (MSCA) at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies (Research Unit History of Church and Theology) and the Faculty of Arts (MoSa). She was a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Facultad de Humanidades of the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and an invited research fellow at Sciences Po’s History Department, where she taught seminars on Asian and European history. She is also a temporary research member at the École Française de Rome (2024-2025) and an associated research fellow for five different research projects in Spain and France.
She holds a double Ph.D. Mention très honorable avec félicitations du Jury / Cum Laude from Sorbonne University and the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares respectively (2018). Her thesis, “Croyances, espaces et politique dans l’Espagne du XXe siècle : les congrès eucharistiques internationaux”, was awarded the best dissertation in history prize by the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (2019).
In her work, she explores innovative aspects of Contemporary Catholicism, transnational and cultural history, and gender studies. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters in French, Spanish, and English, as well as the monographic book Fe, modernidad y política: los congresos eucarísticos internacionales (Faith, Modernity and Politics: The International Eucharistic Congresses, Comares, 2024) and co-editor of Más allá de los nacionalcatolicismos: redes transnacionales de los catolicismos hispánicos (Beyond National Catholicisms: Transnational Networks of Hispanic Catholicisms, Sílex, 2021).
In addition, she is the Director of the Feliciano Montero Seminar of Contemporary Religious History, communications manager and Vice-President of the Asociación Española de Historia Religiosa Contemporánea http://www.aehrc.es/
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