Susana Macías Pascua
PhD Researcher
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room 2.009
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 62469
smaciasp@uni-bonn.de
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Zeuske, Prof. Dr. Stephan Conermann, Prof. Dr. Béla Bodó
Member of- Research Area A - Semantics - Lexical Fields - Narratives
Academic Profile
My research delves into early modern Spain, focusing on the role of religion, law, and economic-political institutions in their historical relationship with the Romani collective known as the Calé (Spanish gitanos). It analyzes the antagonisms between the development of public policy and the Calé’s "refractory resistance" to assimilationist aims. It further examines the forms of coercion and the semantics of power, exploring the extent to which such measures permeated existing social and everyday practices. More broadly, it seeks to identify patterns of dependence and reciprocity within early modern Iberian society and to reconstruct a history of the gitanos' daily experience beyond the unrelenting image of the outcast.
2020–2026
Ph.D. in Early Modern History, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
2017–2019
M.A. in History, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
2004–2005
Pg. Diploma in "Globalization and Regionalization: Culture, Nationalism and History of the Present," UNED, Spain
2004–2005
Pg. Diploma in "Postmodern Culture and Pragmatic Rationality," UNED, Spain
1998–2003
Five-Year Degree in Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
since 2020
Research Associate in Research Area A Semantics – Lexical Fields – Narratives, University of Bonn, Germany
(Ed.) Romani Entanglements in Europe. Past and Present Asymmetric Dependencies. De Gruyter (in progress).
(with Mariana Sabino Salazar) “Bordering the Empire: Romani Women (or Gitanas) and the Inquisition in the Spanish Atlantic,” in A. Ostendorf and M. Fotta (Eds.), Romani Atlantic. Cambridge University Press.