Alicia Cámara Muñoz is professor of Art History at the UNED. Her research is focused on engineers and fortifications of the Spanish monarchy in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and she has received various national and international awards for her studies in the field of military architecture. Prominent among her publications are Arquitectura y sociedad en el Siglo de Oro (1990) and Fortificación y ciudad en los reinos de Felipe II (1998).