Ofelia Rey Castelao

Ofelia Rey Castelao (born 1956) is a Galician historian, writer, and university professor. Focusing her research on women's history, she studies female migration and the insertion of Galician women in the literate culture. Rey Castelao was awarded the (National History Prize of Spain) in 2022.

Early life and education Ofelia Rey Castelao was born in A Estrada, Pontevedra, Spain, in 1956.

After studying Geography and History at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), That same year (1978), the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain awarded her the National Award for the Best Scholars. In 1984, her doctoral thesis (The vote of Santiago in modern Spain), presented at the same university, was awarded "outstanding cum laude", and she received again the Extraordinary Prize. In 1985, she received the . In July 2005, in Sydney, Australia, she was elected member of the .

She is a member of the scientific committee of academic journals, such as Tiempos Modernos (Complutense University of Madrid), Revista de Investigaciones Históricas (University of Valladolid), Contrahistorias. La otra mirada de Clío (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Historia Social, Trocadero (University of Cádiz), Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, Estudis (University of Valencia), among many others. She is a member of the advisory board of the History Library of the CSIC.