# Jonatan Lopez-Munoz Visiting Scholar ![Joanatan Lopez Munoz Portrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2026-09/jjlm.jpg?itok=Wsvh8hNe) email Jonatan Lopez-Munoz is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, where he is a Faculty Long-Term Fellow of the Real Colegio Complutense. He received his PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on museum studies, with particular attention to the ways museums have contributed to the construction of national identities. His work also examines cultural heritage, collecting practices, and the role of women in museums, art history, and heritage preservation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of *Women, Museums and Heritage: Narratives on Conservation and Safeguarding* (2024) and *Museums and Identities: The National Construction of Italy in the 19th Century* (2025), and co-editor of *Women and the Arts: Patrons, Artists, Entrepreneurs, Collectors* (2021). His research has been published in journals including *Museum International* and *Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea*, as well as in numerous edited volumes on museum history, cultural heritage, and art historiography. Lopez-Munoz has contributed to six competitive research projects funded by the Spanish Government on museum history, cultural heritage, national identity, art historiography, and the role of women in the arts. He has held research appointments at the University of Zaragoza and the Museum of History of Madrid and has conducted research stays at Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Palermo. His current research explores transnational cultural networks between Spain and the United States by examining the experiences of women museum professionals, art historians, and heritage practitioners. It investigates how these women shaped museum practice, cultural heritage preservation, and the production of art historical knowledge throughout the twentieth century. - ## People [Visiting Scholars](/people/visiting)