Diego Vicente Sánchez

E-mail: dvicentes@unex.es

Diego Vicente Sánchez is a PhD student in Early Modern History at the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain). Currently, he is one of the fellows of the PhD grants programme “Formación del Profesorado Universitario” of the spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, reseraching on the iberian relations and the making of borders in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has been a visiting researcher at the Centro de História of the Universidad de Lisboa. He is also part of the research project “Contrahegemonías: comunidad, alteridad y resistencias en los márgenes del mundo ibérico, siglos XVI-XVIII (Ref. PID2021-127293NA-I00)”, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and by te European Social Fund.

Repository: https://unex.academia.edu/DIEGOVICENTESANCHEZ

Research project: Definig, Controlling and Thinking the Iberian Borderlands (1717-1926)

By rethinking centre-periphery relations and combining macro and micro scales of analysis, this project aims to study the process of defining the Spanish-Portuguese peninsular border over the long term, paying special attention to the attempts at delimitation that were carried out from the end of the Ancien Régime until its definitive establishment in 1926. To this end, it not only studies the work of the technical commissions that defined the border layout, but also the territorial control policies deployed by both States and the community practices and identities that were forged among the populations of the “Raia” from the Middle Ages, which survived in some cases until the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

Research period: April 2025 – July 2025