"Juan de la Cierva" research
CCHS-CSIC

Carlos Cañete is at present looking at the historiography of cultural representations and discourses concerning sacred origins in Spain. He was a pre-doctoral fellow at the School of Arabic Studies of Granada (CSIC) from 2006 to 2008 and had a scholarship from the Spanish Government to undertake research for two years (2004/2006) at Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco). Since 2007 he has been a member of the research project concerning seventeenth-century Jesuit missions in Ethiopia led by Víctor M. Fernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He has also since 2009 been a member of the project ‘Material Connections: Mobility, Materiality and Mediterranean Identities’ led by Peter van Dommelen and A. Bernard Knapp (University of Glasgow). He has published several articles in internationally recognized journals.