Michele Curnis
Professor Michele Curnis
Michele Curnis is a tenured professor of Medieval History in the Department of Humanities: History, Geography, and Art at Carlos III University of Madrid. He holds a PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Turin (2004) and a PhD in Historical Sciences from the University of Genoa (2011). He was a CONEX research fellow at UC3M from 2015 to 2019 (Marie Curie Fellowship, ERC People Actions). He has taught at the Universities of Turin and Eastern Piedmont (Vercelli) and has conducted research at the Universities of Göttingen, Cincinnati, Santiago de Chile (Pontifical Catholic University), and Milan (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart). His research interests include the tradition of Aristotelian political thought in the ancient and medieval world, the history of the anthology genre (John Stobaeus), the historical dimension of the works of Alfonso X the Wise, and the works of Dante. After serving as secretary and deputy director, he is currently the director of the Lucio Anneo Seneca Institute of Classical Studies at UC3M and head of the NOMOS research group, affiliated with the Humanities Department of the same university. In 2023, he founded the UC3M Seminar on Medieval Culture, which he directs and coordinates. He is a member of the international academic society Collegium Politicum—of which he was president during the 2022-2023 academic year—the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies (SEEM), the Spanish Society for Byzantine Studies (SEB), the Spanish Society for Classical Studies (SEEC), and the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Military History (ASEHISMI). He collaborates as a reviewer with several scholarly journals and is co-editor of the open-access journal Pegé/Fons.