Ana Roda Sanchez

Email: a.rodasanchez@qmul.ac.uk

Ana joined Queen Mary as a PhD student in 2023. Her research analyses attitudes towards Jewish converts in fifteenth-century Toledo. She strives to understand the ways in which converts were discriminated by Christian mainstream society, as well as to clarify the extent to what race played a role in this context.

Ana holds a Research Master in Theology and Religious Studies from KU Leuven (2022). She also holds a BA in Theology from KU Leuven (2020) and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (2018).

Ana’s doctoral project is supervised by Miri Rubin, Bert Carlstrom and Delfi Nieto-Isabel, and it is funded by the HSS Queen Mary Principal Studentship.

Research

Main research interests:

• premodern critical race studies
• urban studies
• religious conversion
• cultural encounters
• racialisation and the formation of early modern European states.

Teaching

As of January 2025, Ana teaches on the module ‘Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800’.

Publications

• “La reforma del clero precisneriana promovida desde el arzobispado de Toledo (1446–1495).” Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 119/3-4 (2024).
• “Alfonso Carrillo y Acuña and His Attempts to Reform the Toledan Church within the Context of the Castilian Succession Conflict (1465–1479).” Journal of Early Modern Christianity 9, no. 1 (2022): 45–66.