Maialen Salcedo Berrueta

Maialen Salcedo Berrueta is a third-year PhD student in History of Art at the HiCSA laboratory of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Rousseau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Prof. Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), she studies the role of Spanish haute couture in the process of nation-building in Franco’s Spain (1939-1975). This project is generously supported by a doctoral studentship awarded by the Collège des Écoles Doctorales of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Fellow of the Casa de Velázquez, she has been a doctoral visiting researcher at the Department of History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, under the guidance of Prof. Javier Moreno Luzón, and at the Museo del Traje in Madrid.
Her long-standing interest in the history of Spanish fashion and its links with the contemporary history of Spain has led her to participate in various seminars and conferences in both Spanish and French universities. In line with this commitment, she also serves as secretary of SARTORIA, the Association for Fashion and Art History Research, where she co-organises a monthly doctoral seminar that aims to broaden fashion studies towards an interdisciplinary approach, confronting them with current debates in Art History, such as the decolonial perspective, visual culture, and transcultural history.