A medical historian currently working at the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora (Portugal).
Dr. Francisco Javier Martínez is a specialist on the history of medicine, public health and humanitarian action in modern Morocco, either with regard to the colonial interventions of France and Spain, or to the local initiatives of modernization. Recent works include the coordination of the journal dossier The Pasteur Institutes in the Maghreb during the Colonial Period and the volume edited with John Chircop, Mediterranean quarantines, 1750-1914. Space, Identity and Power.