Cristina Hernández Casado is a postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. As part of the BADEMS project, she is currently interested in the study of Black communities and their cultural activities in Madrid.

She graduated with a PhD in History from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2023. She then carried out interdisciplinary research at the University of Burgos, providing historical perspectives to the literary-based project Ámbitos literarios de sociabilidad en el siglo de oro: El teatro escrito en colaboración en su contexto, nuevos instrumentos de investigación. She is also a member of the project NOBINCIS: Nuevas noblezas de la Monarquía Hispánica, the research group HERMESP Élites y agentes en la Monarquía Hispánica and the node “NOBINCIS” of Red Columnaria. Her research has been devoted to early modern businessmen and women, Atlantic trade, network analysis, and social promotion strategies in the Hispanic Monarchy. She has conducted research stays in Spanish and Portuguese institutions.

She has published several articles and book chapters, including “Trade, Credit, and Marriage: The Mobility of Portuguese Conversa Merchants and Financiers” in Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). Her book-length monograph Capital y poder en la Monarquía Hispánica (1580-1660). Jorge de Paz Silveira, los hermanos Pasariño y las redes de negocio judeoconversas was published in 2024.