Enriqueta Vila Vilar (born 1935) is a Spanish historian and researcher specialised on the

History of the Americas The prehistory of the Americas (North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an ice age. These groups are generally believed to have been isolated from the peopl ...

Biography

Born in 1935 in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, she earned a PhD in

from the

University of Seville The University of Seville (''Universidad de Sevilla'') is a university in Seville, Spain. Founded under the name of ''Colegio Santa María de Jesús'' in 1505, it has a present student body of over 69.200, and is one of the top-ranked universi ...

in 1972. She worked as research lecturer at the

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas The Spanish National Research Council ( es, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote res ...

(CSIC). 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. 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. In January 2012, she was elected to cover the vacant seat as numerary member of

Royal Academy of History The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ...

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''.

References

1935 births 20th-century Spanish historians Spanish women historians Historians of the Hispanic world Seville city councillors University of Seville alumni Living people 21st-century Spanish historians {{Spain-historian-stub