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Ana Roda Sanchez

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.

In addition to her research, Ana has presented in several conferences in and outside the UK. She started the Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in June 2024. This event has grown in its scope over the past few years. It is now an annual conference that will run its third edition in June 2026.

Research interests

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

Teaching

Ana has been a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at Queen Mary University. She taught in the Department of History, particularly on the module ‘Reformation to Revolution: Europe and the World, 1500-1800’ (January 2025-June 2025).

In September 2025, Ana became a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at University College London. She has been teaching in the module ‘Frontiers of History’ since.

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.
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