Miguel Soto Garrido 

Miguel Soto Garrido is graduate in History (University of Malaga) and master’s degree (Autonomous University of Madrid). His research interests focus on Early Modern Mediterranean and relations between North Africa and Europe during the 16th and 17th century. His recent works focus on the ransom of captives, the Moorish of the Kingdom of Granada and the diplomacy between Spanish Monarchy and North African states. He participates in various national research projects linked to Early Modern Mediterranean and diplomacy. He is currently completing his PhD project entitled “Monarchy and Nobility. The 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia and the defense of the Strait of Gibraltar:  authority, frontier and diplomacy (1576-1603)” supervised by M. Á Bunes Ibarra (CSIC) and J. J. Bravo Caro (UMA). At the international field, he has completed pre-doctoral stays at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CHAM). His work at MAP explores the Atlantic dimension of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the transition from the 16th to the 17th century through the Marchena family network and the families of Sephardic origin employed by the Medici to channel their commercial and political interests in the North African sultanates.