Adriana Luna-Fabritius is a Docent in Intellectual History at the University of Helsinki, where she researches and teaches legal cultures and the political and economic languages of empires. Her work explores the circulation and appropriation of legal, political, and economic practices across the territories of the Spanish Monarchy through transimperial networks of communication. She pays particular attention to the role of Naples in processes of social, political and intellectual transformation. In this context, she has published extensively on natural law, political economy, cameral sciences, and liberalism, and on cultures of innovation, improvement, and the construction of expertise.
Dr Luna-Fabritius is an active member of international research networks on European political, economic, and legal history, as well as on colonial and transimperial contexts. She serves on the editorial committee of the European Society for the History of Political Thought series History of European Political and Constitutional Thought (Brill), and of Clàssics del Pensament Polític Català, a joint project of the Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern (Government of Catalonia) and the Fundació Ramon Llull.
Her current research, relevant to this network, is developed within her project Narratives of Crisis in the Early Modern World (founded by Kone Foundation).