Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López
Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is Senior Distinguished Researcher at the University of La Coruña (UDC) in Spain as well as Principal Investigator (PI) of the ‘FUNDEU’ project, funded by NextGenerationEU and of the tenure-granting Research Consolidation project ‘FREEMOVEU’, funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI).
During the academic year 2024-2025 she will be a Visiting Fellow at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge and at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) working on Contemporary History and, more specifically, on Peace-building in European integration from the language(s) of the Arts. She received the 2024 ‘María Moliner’ National Research Award in the Humanities from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
From 2019 to 2022 she was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow at the European Studies Center (ESC) of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA and at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’ (NAVSCHEN).
She previously was Assistant Professor in European Culture and Politics at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.
From 2021-2023 Dr. Blanco Sío-López was Executive Committee Member of the Global Young Academy (GYA). Currently, she is also Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS); Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and Full Member of the Young Academy of Spain.
She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization –with a specialization in European Integration History– at the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence and received the FAEY’s Best PhD Thesis Award in 2008.
Select publications
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Schengen as a Political Territory: Sources of Differentiation in the EU’s Free Movement of Persons’ from 1985’, Politique européenne, Special Issue 2020/1 (67-68): ‘Differentiated European integration beyond mainstream approaches’, pp. 26–52, Paris: L’Harmattan.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘The Future that Once Was: 1989, the EU’s Eastward enlargement and democracy’s missed chances’ in book: 1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War, London, Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2019, pp. 169–187.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Transitional Margins to Re-Join the West: Spain’s Dual Strategy of Democratisation and Europeanisation’, in book: Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe. The Influence of Smaller Powers, London, Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2019, pp. 205–224.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Inner Tensions vs. Outer Change: Political Agency Impact on Cohesion Funds Implementation in Spain in the Context of the Maastricht Treaty’, Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Special Issue 2017, vol. 23, European Funding: On the Way to a New Research Agenda?, pp. 263-281.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Unveiling Covectors. Correlating Migration and EC Enlargement in the Case of Spain’, Journal of European Integration History (JEIH), Special Issue 2017, vol. 22: Peoples and Borders. 70 Years of Movement of Persons in Europe, to Europe, from Europe (1945-2015), pp. 211-236.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., ‘Designing Scenarios on Inclusive Globalisation. Europe 2020 and the Social Dimension of EU’s External Policy’ in book: Austerity and the Implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy in Spain. Re-shaping the European Productive and Social Model, Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, NY, Oxford, Wien, PIE – Peter Lang, ‘Work and Society’ Series, 2017, pp. 77–101
- Blanco Sío-López, C., Guest Editor, Special Issue: Policy Innovation, Regional Integration and Sustainable Democracy Building: The MDGs as Challenges and Vehicles, Regions and Cohesion, RISC Journal, 5(3), Winter 2015, Berghahn Journals, NY, Oxford, 139 pp.
- Blanco Sío-López, C., Book Co-editor, Converging Pathways: Spain and the European Integration Process, Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, NY, Oxford, Wien, P.I.E. – Peter Lang – Cuadernos de Yuste Series, History and Political Science, 2014, 562 pp.
Select awards
- 2024 ‘María Moliner’ National Research Award in the Humanities from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
- From 2023: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS).
- From 2022: Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE).
- 2020 Best Non-European Chapter Award as Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow (2019-2022).
Further links
- https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/people/cristina-blanco-sio-lopez/
- https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/cristina-blanco-sio-lopez-receives-the-2024-maria-moliner-national-research-award-in-the-humanities/
- https://academiajoven.es/academicos/cristina-blanco-sio-lopez/
- https://yacadeuro.org/blanco-sio-lopez/
- https://www.unive.it/pag/38078/
- http://esomi.es/cristina-blanco
