The professor of Modern History Ofelia Rey (Arnois, A Estrada, 1956) has been awarded the 2022 Spanish National History Prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, for The Short Flight. Women and migrations in the Modern Age (University of Santiago de Compostela), which the jury considers "a rigorous investigation with a diversity of historical sources that offers a comprehensive vision of the migrations of women in the Modern Age: intrapeninsular, transoceanic, those of those who did it as free, semi-free or captive persons or as exiles…”.
In addition, the jury has singled out the book "for studying its causes and transcendental demographic, social, labor, economic, cultural and moral consequences, while at the same time offering an examination of the other side of the phenomenon, the consequences of male migrations in the women who stayed". The verdict highlights "her outstanding contribution to Spanish historiography and its enormous social value, as well as the analysis of a complex reality, that of migrations, of undeniable relevance" and affirms that "the work of Ofelia Rey It is an example of interdisciplinarity and impeccable methodology, with an updated focus on the gender perspective of migratory processes in Spain in the Modern Age”.
The author, professor of Modern History at the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2002, has been director of the Obradoiro journal of Modern History for 15 years and is part of the scientific committee of academic journals such as Tiempos Modernos ( Complutense University), Historical Research (University of Valladolid), Contrahistories. The other view of Clío (UNAM, Mexico) or Estudis (University of Valencia. In addition, he belongs to the Advisory Council of the CSIC History Library. His books include History of women in Galicia: (16th to 19th centuries) (2009 ); The Challenge of Breaking a Glass Ceiling in the 21st Century: Women and Human Sciences in the Spanish Academic and Scientific System (2019) and the award-winning The Short Flight: Women and Migration in the Modern Age (2021).
