Affiliation: UNED (Spain)
Keywords: Art history, otherness, Muslim-Christian relations, Moriscos, Early Modern Art, critical race theory

Full profile: Borja Franco Llopis is Associate Professor at the UNED (Spain) and his research is devoted to the visual and literary representation of the otherness in Europe. His research explores topics such as race, migration and otherness in the late medieval and early modern periods and their understanding in contemporary societies. He has published 5 books in Spanish and Italian, coordinated 9 more (two in press) in important presses such as Brill, Leuven University Press, Genoa University Press.
He has also published almost 100 articles and book chapters. He combined this work with the production of documentaries about Muslim-Christian relations, which were broadcast on RTVE TV2 and its international station in Iberoamerica, as well as in youtube. He was the Principal Investigator of 3 Spanish Research Projects, and he was the working group leader of the COST Action COST Action 18129: Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750). He has been a visiting scholar in several institutions such as the School of History and Archaeology in Rome, the Istituto Storico per el Medievo (Rome), the Warburg Institute (London), Johns Hopkins University, University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University, Columbia University, Universidade Nova of Lisbon and NYU; and Visiting Professor at the University of Genoa.
He has obtained important scholarships such as the Ramón y Cajal, Santander Iberoamérica, José Castillejo, Leonardo Scholarship (BBVA Foundation) and the Gondra Barandiarán Junior at the Museo Nacional del Prado. He is a member of the evaluation panel in Art History and Literature of the State Research Agency of Spain, that oversees the research projects and postdoctoral grants granted by the Spanish Ministry of Sciences. Since 2022 he is a fellow member of the Young Academy of Spain.