Dr. Joana Isabel Duyster Borreda

Biography

Joana-Isabel Duyster Borreda is a historian whose research focuses on questions of national and regional collective identities and memories, particularly within the context of transnational connections. Her scholarly work has primarily examined Spain and Western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a specific geographical focus. Currently, she is engaged in a postdoctoral research project titled 'Book of Books', which explores the cultural and political relations between Spain and Denmark, specifically related to the legacy of Hernando Colón’s Libro de los Epítomes in Denmark during the seventeenth century. She completed her Bachelor degree in Medieval and Modern History and Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, followed by a Master's degree in History at the same institution. Joana earned her PhD in history from the University of Oxford in 2020, where her dissertation analyzed the transnational connections and competing ideas of region and nation in Early Catalan Nationalism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At the University of Copenhagen, Joana coordinates the Center for Study of Nationalism and co-convenes the Global Europe History Forum. She is keen to supervise projects that relate to her research interests.

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