Ana Cabana Iglesia is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, in the Contemporary History area of ​​the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is member of the research group Historia Agraria e Política do Mundo Rural (HISTAGRA).

Her lines of research revolve around the study of rural society in the 20th century, with special reference to social attitudes, socio-environmental conflict, communal property and women's history.

She is currently IP of the projects "Family agriculture in a gender perspective: reproductive work, environmental knowledge and models of femininity in Galicia and Andalusia 1900-2011" (PID2023-151334NB-100) of the Ministry of Education and "Science at the Fair" of FECYT and researcher of the project "Fighting for gender and food justice: rural women's struggles in Portugal, Galicia, and the Basque Country" funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation.

Among her main scientific contributions are :

• Cabana, A.; Díaz Geada, A.; Otero-González, U., (2022), “Pensar las mujeres rurales «ser campesina» para la dictadura franquista”, Studia Historica. Historia contemporánea, 40
• Cabana Iglesia, A. (2023), “Las mujeres rurales y su papel en los incendios de la Galicia (España) del siglo XX “, Historia Agraria de América Latina, 2-4.
• Cabana Iglesia, A. (2024), “Ponte Sampaio, 1965(des)memoria das loitas labregas durante o franquismo”, en Grandío Seoane, E. (coord.), Pasado arrincado: lugares de memoria democrática en Galicia, Vigo, Galaxia