# Rosario López Sánchez Member of the Advisory Council ![Lopez](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/thumbnail_rosariolopez_317_02rec.png?itok=jXZw2h1U) email laptop\_windows [Rosario López Sánchez's profile at Universidad de Málaga](https://www.uma.es/departamento-de-filosofia/info/109500/rosario-lopez-sanchez) laptop\_windows [academia.edu](https://concepta-net.academia.edu/RosarioLopez) Rosario López Sánchez is Lecturer in Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Málaga (Spain). Her work explores the relationship between philosophy, historiography, and politics. Her research focuses on the methods for the study of political thought and the history of political liberalism since the 19th century (John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden). She also has a research interest in political thought and parliamentary debates, with a special focus on Britain and Spain. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal [*Global Intellectual History*](https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgih20) (Taylor & Francis), member of the research project [*Civic Constellation III: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Anti-Liberalism*](https://www.uma.es/civicconstellation/) (PGC2018-093573-B-100, 2019-2022), Board Member of [*Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought*](https://www.historyofconcepts.net/concepta/), and Board Member (Secretary) of the [History of Concepts Group](https://www.historyofconcepts.net/the-history-of-concepts-group/meet-the-board/). Between 2017 and 2021, she was Working Group Leader in the [COST Action *Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe*](https://www.uma.es/costactionrecast/). After earning her PhD from the University of Málaga in 2013, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Tutor at the [Institute of Intellectual History](https://www.intellectualhistory.net/), University of St Andrews (2013-16). She has been a visiting scholar at the Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, University of Jyväskylä (2010) and the Centre for Political Ideologies, University of Oxford (2011). Her doctoral thesis was awarded the ‘Luis Díez del Corral’ Prize in 2013 (Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies, Madrid). She is the author of two monographs, [*Contexts of John Stuart Mill’s Liberalism: Politics and the Science of Society in Victorian Britain*](https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783845279947/contexts-of-john-stuart-mill-s-liberalism?hitid=34604&page=1&l=en) (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016), and [*El pensamiento político de John Stuart Mill y su contexto intelectual: Una aproximación conceptual a su liberalismo político*](https://www.cepc.gob.es/publicaciones/monografias/el-pensamiento-politico-de-john-stuart-mill-en-su-contexto-intelectual-una-aproximacion-conceptual-6) (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2016). She has co-edited several journal issues, among them ‘[Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Pluralism: The Practice of Intellectual History and Conceptual History](https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rgih20/6/1)’, *Global Intellectual History* 6:1 (2021). Among her refereed contributions are ‘John Stuart Mill on Religion, Utility, and Morality,’ [*The Cambridge Handbook of the History of Atheism*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-atheism/john-stuart-mill-on-religion-utility-and-morality/73A9B7EE44B2B2B010F3625DEB05C4C4) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021); ‘[In search of the Unicorn? Interdisciplinarity in Intellectual History](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23801883.2019.1657641),’ *Global Intellectual History* 6:1 (2021); ‘[Richard Cobden as a Middle-Class Hero: Public Speaking and Political Debate in Victorian Britain’](https://journal-redescriptions.org/articles/10.7227/R.20.1.4), *Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory* 1:20 (2017); ‘ “Advanced Liberalism” and the Politics of Reform in Victorian Parliamentary Culture’, in: [*Parliamentarism and Democratic Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives*](https://shop.budrich.de/en/product/parliamentarism-and-democratic-theory/), Kari Palonen and José María Rosales, eds. (Leverkusen and London: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2014). He review article ‘[The Quest for the Global: Remapping Intellectual History](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916599.2015.1115250)’ prompted [John Pocock’s reflections on globality and intellectual history](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1523997). She is currently working on editing Richard Cobden’s unpublished travel diaries and she is also co-editing a volume on *The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe* (together with Pasi Ihalainen, Kari Palonen and Henk te Velde) which will be published in 2025. - ## People categories [Member of the Advisory Council](/people-categories/member-advisory-council)