ORCID: 0000-0001-6621-8561

Margarita Barral Martínez (Carballo, 1973) is a European doctor of History from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She earned an outstanding performance award with her doctoral thesis Eugenio Montero Ríos e a cidade de Santiago (‘Eugenio Montero Ríos and the city of Santiago,’ 2005), directed by professor Ramón Villares Paz. She is currently a teacher-researcher at the Department of Contemporary and American History of the USC under the Isidro Parga Pondal Programme. She received the Galicia Research Award for young researchers in the year 2009.

Her lines of research are political history and local history.

Her main publications include the following: (2007): Montero Ríos e Compostela: un feudo clientelar, Sotelo Blanco, Consorcio de Santiago; (2008): “Eugenio Montero Ríos a Santiago di Compostela (1886-1914)”, in Storicamente, nº 4; BARRAL MARTÍNEZ, M. (2009): “Banquetes e serenatas para os caciques. Santiago na etapa da Restauración Borbónica”, Semata. Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades; (2009): “La Alameda, el Paseo de la Herradura y otros jardines". Espacios vertebradores de la estructura social y urbana de Santiago: siglos XIX y XX”, in LÓPEZ DÍAZ, M. (ed.), Estudios en homenaje al profesor José M. Pérez García, Vigo, Servizo de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo, Vol. 1, pp. 67-76; (2010): "O espíritu expositivo na época contemporánea e a organización e desenvolvemento da ‘Exposición Regional Gallega’ de 1909”, in GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, C. and MÉNDEZ GARCÍA, R.Mª (eds.), Exposición Galega de 1909 (MPG-IEG “Padre Sarmiento”, pp. 121-194.