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Magaly obtained her PhD in 2008 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her doctoral dissertation – ‘Trade Unionists and the World: European and Latin American Labour and the Creation and  Maintenance of International Trade-Union Organisations, 1949-1969‘ (published in 2010 in Peter Lang) – won her the Labor History Dissertation Prize 2008. Between 2009 and 2015 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow for the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). She studied the League of Nations’ campaigns against human trafficking, prostitution and child labour. In 2013 she became postdoctoral fellow of the Francqui Foundation to conduct research at the Université libre de Bruxelles. She is visiting fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) since 2010, and a member of national and international networks such as the EU-COST Action ‘Comparing European Prostitution Policies: Understanding Scales and Cultures of Governance‘ (2014-17), the Young Academy (2016-21), HIVA – Research Institute for Work and Society (2018 – ), and the Advisory Platform on Prostitution Policy – Flanders (2016 – ).

Magaly was appointed as an assistant professor at the KU Leuven in 2015. Her current research focuses on the history of international organisations, global labour, and subaltern history. She works in close cooperation with Belgian and foreign colleagues for the organisation of multidisciplinary projects around prostitution policies (or non-policy) at the local and international levels, and the living conditions of sex workers. In the last decade, Magaly has established a fruitful cooperation with NGO’s working with vulnerable people (homeless persons, sex workers…) for oral history projects. She is engaged in research-oriented teaching at BA- and MA-level in the Dutch and English History Programmes, and the Master in European Studies. She supervises doctoral research projects around peasants and democracy in Colombia and subalternity and sports in Ecuador.