We are happy to share that Life Member Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López has been appointed as Tenured Associate Professor (Grade 10) in Sociology and Contemporary History at the University of La Coruña (UDC) in Spain, where she is also the Principal Investigator of the NextGenerationEU project FREEMOVEU on the history of human mobility rights. She specialises in the History of European integration, with an accent on EU enlargement policy temporalities; the Schengen area fundamental rights; Global Governance; Comparative Regional Integration and Digital Humanities.

She started her tenure with the role of Director of the ‘Blas Cabrera’ Summer Research School at theInternational University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) 2025, granted as ‘María Moliner’ Spanish National Research Awardee in the Humanities 2024. This summer research school , held at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander, brings together the 80 students with the highest BA, MA and PhD qualifications in Spain from all disciplines. This year’s interdisciplinary programme was dedicated to the cross-silos theme of ‘Time and Horizons’ and it included scholars from the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Cornell, Groningen, Macau, Pompeu Fabra, Georgia Tech, IE, EUI and CERN, etc.

Dr Blanco Sío-López received the ‘María Moliner’ Spanish National Research Award in the Humanities 2024 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the King of Spain. She is currently an Affiliate at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH); Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS); Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE); Corresponding Member of the Young Academy of Spain (AJdE) and Associate Researcher at the ‘Association for Global Political Thought’ (AGPT) at Harvard University.

She was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge in the Michaelmas term 2024. She was also a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall from December 2024 to late May 2025, when she developed the new project she directs as PI on ‘Factors of sustainable peace in European integration through the language(s) of the Arts’. She was ‘Santander’ Senior stipendiary 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.

Clare Hall is delighted to witness Dr Blanco Sío-López’s continued success and the remarkable breadth of her scholarly achievements. We extend our warmest congratulations on her appointment and on the international recognition her work continues to receive, and we wish her every success in this exciting next chapter of her academic career.