Prof. Dr. Igor Pérez Tostado
Fellow (since January 2025)
Historisches Seminar
Domplatz 20-22
48143 Münster
E-Mail: Igor Pérez Tostado
CV
Igor Pérez Tostado is an Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide (UPO) in Seville (Spain), where he has been a faculty member since 2005. He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2004 and has held various academic and research positions, including a postdoctoral fellowships at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His career has been marked by a strong international dimension, reflected in his research stays at institutions like EHESS (Paris), New York University and TU Dresden. Since 2017, he has been the founder and principal investigator of the PAI HUM-1000 research group, which focuses on globalization, violence, and intercultural negotiation. He has also played a crucial role in academic management, coordinating research projects, organizing over 25 international conferences, and leading initiatives within excellence networks such as COREDEX and the Red Columnaria, where he directs the “Massacre and Frontier” node. Since 2024 he is co-director of the MA Program in History and Digital Humanities at UPO.
Research Project
Currently, Pérez Tostado leads the project En los límites de la violencia (III): La violencia lenta de los imperios modernos funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-122319NB-C22). This project examines the long-term impact of structural violence within imperial contexts, with a focus on economic, political, social, and cultural transformations initiated or sponsored by European empires. His research situates slow violence within a comparative and transnational framework, integrating digital humanities and artificial intelligence methodologies to analyze patterns of violence across different case studies. Additionally, he collaborates in international research initiatives, including the French ANR-funded SOLIDAMIN project, which investigates community solidarity networks and diasporas in 17th- and 18th-century Europe.
Publications
Pérez Tostado’s recent publications contribute to the study of transnational history, imperial violence, and migration networks. Among his key works is Ireland and the Iberian Atlantic: Migration, Military and Material Culture (Albatros, 2020), co-edited with Declan M. Downey, which explores Irish-Spanish interactions in a global context. His chapter "The Destruction of the Canary Islands: A Template for the Caribbean Genocide" in The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 2023) examines early modern colonial violence and its long-term consequences. He also edited A Cultural History of Genocide in the Early Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2022). His ongoing research continues to analyze the intersections of warfare, forced displacement, and state-building, develop new digital tools for historical research and contribute to the debates on imperial governance, collective violence, and the historio of globalization in the early modern period.