Youssef El Alaoui holds a Ph.D. in Philology (1998) from the Université de Rouen Normandie and is Maître de conférences (Associate Professor) in the history of Spain and colonial Latin America (sixteenth–seventeenth centuries). His research explores the evangelization and assimilation policies directed at minority groups in early modern Spain, with particular attention to the methods developed by the Society of Jesus in its missions to Moriscos and Indigenous peoples. He also studies early modern anti-Muslim polemical literature and its role in the construction of religious and cultural alterity. Among his most significant publications are Jésuites, Morisques et Indiens (Honoré Champion, 2006), Morisques (1501–1614). Une histoire si familière (PURH, 2017), and the chapter “De la nación morisca. Evolución de su percepción en obras de refutación de los siglos XVI y XVII: de fábricas de estereotipos a guías para un mejor conocimiento del Otro" in De nación morisca, edited by Margarita M. Birriel Salcedo and Raúl Ruiz Álvarez (Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2020).