Academic Information

Marta García Garralón is a graduate from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a doctorate in Geography and History from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, after presenting her PhD thesis on the nautical training of pilots and seafarers for the Spanish routes of the Carrera de Indias (Taller de Mareantes: el Real Colegio Seminario de San Telmo de Sevilla 1681-1847). She has collaborated as a postdoctoral at the University of Exeter and she is currently member of the staff of Humanities at the Department of Modern History at UNED.

Her investigations revolve around the Maritime History of the Modern Age, specially in several lines of work related to the nautical instruction of individuals, to the professional development of different employments at sea, and the world of ports. Her most recent line of research focuses on the study of the commercial legal institution of the general average, and on the redistribution of costs derived from damages in the Spanish commercial maritime navigation (16th and 17th centuries).

In 2005 she was awarded with the accesit prize by the Diputación de Sevilla 2005 for her monograph on the Universidad de Mareantes de Sevilla (1569-1793).

Lines of research:

- The general average as an instrument to reduce maritime risk in the Modern Age

- Seafarer Institutions in Maritime History in the Modern Age

- Nautical training and institutional development for the instruction of pilots, seafarers and the Royal Navy employments

- Social history of seafarers