Enriqueta Vila Vilar | |
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Born | 14 May 1935 Seville |
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Enriqueta Vila Vilar (born 1935) is a Spanish historian and researcher specialised on the History of the Americas.
Born in 1935 in Seville, she earned a PhD in History of the Americas from the University of Seville in 1972.[1] She worked as research lecturer at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).[2] She served as Seville municipal councillor in representation of the Andalucist Party (PA) and was charged with the municipal government area of Culture from 1991 to 1995.[2] In 1995, she became the first female numerary member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras, serving as director of the learned society from 2011 to 2014.[3][2]
In January 2012, she was elected to cover the vacant seat as numerary member of Royal Academy of History left by the decease of Juan Vernet; she assumed on 16 December 2012, reading a speech titled Hispanismo e hispanización: el Atlántico como nuevo Mare Nostrum.[1]