CIS - Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas

• The Professor of Sociology has focused much of her studies on Gender Sociology
• The jury bases its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career spanning more than 30 years.

A graduate in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid, she obtained her doctorate from the University of London. Capitolina Díaz was a professor at the University of Oviedo (1992), where she was part of the Center for Feminist Research and Women's Studies, and subsequently a professor of Sociology at the University of Valencia (2012). She has served as a visiting professor at Stanford and Harvard Universities (USA), UAM (Mexico), Moa (Cuba), and El Comahue (Argentina).

Her areas of specialization are the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of Gender and Methodology of Social Sciences, and the Sociology of Science with a Gender Dimension. She was the first Director of the Women and Science Unit (2006-2008) of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Government of Spain, a body created in 2005 to promote the application of the principle of gender mainstreaming in the fields of science, technology, and innovation. In 2008, she served as Research Advisor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels, and in December of that same year, she was appointed Director General for Equality in Employment for the Government of Spain (2008-2010). She served as President of the Association of Women Researchers and Technologists (2013-2016). In March 2006, the Association of Progressive Women of El Bierzo awarded her its 2006 Women's Award.

Author, editor and co-author of numerous books, among the most recent are Harriet Martineau's How to Observe Morals and Customs (1838) (CIS, 2022) and Sociological Omnivority: Contributions to the Work of Antonio Ariño (CIS, 2023), as well as more than 100 articles in specialized journals and book chapters on the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of Gender, the Methodology of Social Sciences, and the inclusion of sex and/or gender analysis in research and innovation. In recent years, she has worked on the recovery of the founders of Sociology, particularly on the figure of Harriet Martineau, and on the dissemination among national and international researchers of the inclusion of the gender dimension in the content of their research.

The jury was composed of the President of the CIS, Professor of Sociology José Félix Tezanos, and the following personalities: the Director of Research at the CIS, Silvia García Ramos; the Director of Publications at the CIS, Rosario H. Sánchez Morales; the Professor of Sociology, Inés Alberdi Alonso (National Sociology Prize 2019); the Professor of Sociology, Constanza Tobío Soler (National Sociology Prize 2021); the Professor of Sociology, Rafael Pardo Avellaneda (National Sociology Prize 2022); the Professor of Sociology, Carlota Solé i Puig (National Sociology Prize 2023); the President of the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA), Juan Montabes Pereira; the President of the Spanish Federation of Sociology and full professor Màrius Domínguez i Amorós; The Vice President of the Spanish Federation of Sociology, Professor Lucila Finkel Morgenstern; Professor Irene Delgado Sotillos; Professor of Mathematical Sociology Antonio Alaminos Chica; and Professor of Political Science Pablo Oñate Rubalcaba (2024 National Sociology Prize winner). María Asunción Garzón Martínez, Secretary General of the CIS (National Commission for Sociology of the Spanish Federation of Sociology), acted as the Jury's secretary, with voice but no vote.

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