Ana María Vázquez Hoys


Ana María Vázquez Hoys is a Spanish ancient history professor and book author. She collaborates in educational radio and television programs and gives talks at conferences on Ancient History. She studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid before becoming a teacher at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain.

Biography

Ana María Vázquez Hoys was born on 8 October 1945 in Madrid, Spain, the second of two children in a conservative Christian Catholic middle-class family. Her complete first name is 'Ana María del Carmen Milagrosa'. Her mother was Ana María Hoys Rebollal. Her father, Francisco Vázquez Llorente, worked in the military. She married in 1971 to Carlos Martín Martínez, with whom she had two children. She divorced in 1993. Her former husband died in 2001. Her older brother, Francisco, died in 2011.
Ana María obtained a bachelor's degree in geography and history by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in June 1969. She obtained a Ph.D. in ancient history, with cum laude qualification in 1974. She became tutor of ancient history in the 'Centro Asociado' of UNED in Madrid in 1980. She became professor of ancient history in the Department of Prehistory and Ancient History of UNED in Madrid in 1984.
Since the 1980s, Ana María has written many academic books and articles related to ancient history, participated in numerous international conferences and collaborated in radio and television programs. Since 2009 she appears regularly in programs by the Spanish radio stations 'Dial' and 'Europa_FM', mainly in collaboration with presenter Javier Cárdenas. In 2010 she published her first historic novel, placed in Ancient Egypt and titled El Sol Negro.

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