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Research Team
Carolina Rodríguez-López has published 9 monographs (5 of them coedited), 9 articles (many of them published in quality magazines indexed in JCR, SCOPUS, Arts and Humanities Citation Index), 39 book chapters in international relevant publishing houses like Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Transcript, Hentrich & Hentrich, and Iberoamericana Vervuert. She has several publications in leading scientific outlets such as HSK and Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea. She is the author of one Exhibition catalog and has been part of 11 research projects about the history of the universities, the history of the Spanish War, women's history, and the history of cultural and scientific transfers, among other topics. Mrs. Rodríguez has been a member of 2 Research teams, she is currently included in one and she is the director of one of them. She is a member of the Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences at Carlos III University of Madrid and of the Ortega y Gasset-Marañon Foundation. Mrs. Rodríguez has participated in more than 60 conferences and specialized workshops in Germany, Spain, the USA, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Portugal. She has been also a member of the scientific committee of workshops and exhibitions. She has been the curator of an exhibition and she is an evaluator for such renowned Journals. She is a member of the editorial board of three Journals and a member of the Scientific board of one. She has obtained fellowships and research grants as a doctoral and postdoctoral researcher at highly competitive programs, including doctoral fellowships from the Complutense University of Madrid, and postdoctoral from the Carlos III University of Madrid. She has been Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies (Harvard University) twice and also a Visiting Scholar at California State University Dominguez Hills. She obtained grants from the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard and by Del Amo Foundation. She has been Guest Researcher at ZZF (Potsdam, Germany). She is the director of CIAN-Journal of the History of Universities, and also the director of "Expehistoria. Research Group on Sociocultural and intellectual history". She is the director of the Complutense Workshop on University History. She is the supervisor of 6 Ph. D. Thesis about to be finished.
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Contact: carolinarodriguez@ghis.ucm.es | Phone: 91 394 5902
Paula Bruno holds a PhD in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires. She is also Professor in History from the same faculty and holds a postgraduate Master Degree in Historical Research from the University of San Andrés. She is and has been a visiting scholar at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris), the European University Institute (Florence), the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Barcelona, the University of Girona, the “José María Luis Mora” Research Institute (Mexico City), the National Autonomous University of Mexico, the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the University of Verona, the Ibero-American Institute of Berlin, the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS), among others. Bruno is the author of books (4 as sole-author, 1 as co-author and 2 as editor), of articles in peer-reviewed journals (30), of book chapters (12), of book reviews (40) on Hispanic American cultural history, history of women, history of intellectuals, diplomatic history and historical biography. She has received scholarships and funding to develop individual and group research projects of different state agencies, foundations and R&D centres from different countries and international organisations including Argentina, United States of America, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, and France. For her research works, she has received the awards: Premio Pensamiento de América “Leopoldo Zea” (2008), Premio Especial “Eduardo Mallea” (2016), Premio “Gregorio Weinberg” (2016), among other distinctions and grants.
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Giulia Quaggio is a leading specialist in post-1945 Europe with an innovative focus on Southern European culture and democratization processes. Her approach to Spanish modern history places particular emphasis on the symbolic performances of societal actors and on the framing of political discourses and collective protests. Her research is interdisciplinary and comparative in its core and incorporates analysis of visual culture, cultural institutions and their discourses within political elites but also cross-referred to social movements. This makes her an international versatile researcher and teacher. She has worked in Florence, Madrid, London, New York and Sheffield. Furthermore, from March until July 2019 she was a research associate at the Deutsche Historische Institute in Rome. She has already built a strong transnational research network in Europe (i.e. CoMo Centre for Contemporary and Modern History in Sheffield, the editorial board of the Italian journal Spagna Contemporanea, the Department of History of Social Movements at UCM Madrid and ICS in Portugal). Her first book The Culture in Transition. Reconciliation and Cultural Policies in Democratic Spain (Alianza 2014) explores how culture symbolically influenced and defined the political process of Spanish democratization. To answer this question, she also applied Foucault’s concept of governmentality, defining culture as a special tool in regulating the new democratic relationship between citizens and power. Several reviews in high impact specialist journals such as Hispania and popular Spanish media as RTVE underlined the outstanding and pioneering quality of my monograph. Her second book A Double Political Experience: Spain and Italy (University of Granada, 2018) delves into the encounter between the Spanish Republican Intellectual Francisco Ayala and the Italian Jew Renato Treves in Argentina during the Second World War. It shows the deep social consequences of forces exiles on the global circulation of knowledge and transatlantic contacts (Review: Revista de Occidente 448, 2018). During the past year and half, she was involved in a UK Max Batley funded project entitled Protest as Democratic practice: peace movement in Southern Europe, 1975-1990 within a truly international team (PI Dr Eirini Karamouzi, Co-PI Professor Benjamin Ziemann and Professor Maria Grasso). She developed a robust and innovative research agenda on the visual codes of peace and antinuclear activists in Greece, Spain and Italy during the last years of the Cold War. Indeed, my third monograph The Spanish Struggle for Peace. Participatory Democracy and Cold War Anxieties after Franco (1975-1986) is already under contract with Routledge. This will be a comparative study on how peace and anti-NATO activists contributed to the construction of a different democratic culture in Europe during the so-called Second Cold War. During and after my PhD, she secured funding from the Italian Government, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Spanish Ministry of Education, New York University, University of Sheffield and Max Weber Foundation. Moreover, her strong commitment to public engagement and research impact is demonstrated through my collaboration with the exhibition at the Greek Parliament in Athens Fighting for Peace in the 1980s (November 2018- March 2019) and the RTVE documentary on Francisco Ayala s return to democratic Spain (March 2014).
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Contact: giulquag@ucm.es | Phone: 91 394 7807
Julia Moreno García is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at Computense University of Madrid. Ph D. in History (1985). She is specialized in the Contemporary History of Asia and Africa with a main focus on China and Japan. She is the author of books and articles about China, Japan and also Cuba. She studied the slaves’ market in the late Spanish Empire and the biographies of leaders of iindependence movement in Cuba and Mexico. She has also an extensive production in disclosure texts.
Contact: jfmoreno@ghis.ucm.es | Phone: 91 394 5917
Francisco Morente Valero is a Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Between 2009 and 2020 he was director of the research group «Studies on Republic and Democracy» at the UAB, and he has been Principal Researcher of some research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science as: HAR2014-53498-P. «Culturas políticas, movilización y violencia en España, 1930-1950». 1/1/2015-31/12/2018; HAR2011-25749. «Las alternativas a la quiebra liberal en Europa: socialismo, democracia, fascismo y populismo (1914-1991)». 1/1/2012 – 30/6/2015; HUM2004-01840/HIST. «La revolución conservadora (1914-1945). La modernización de la cultura de la extrema derecha en Europa y España». 13/12/2004 a 12/12/2007.
His field of research is the Franco’s dictatorship and the fascist movements and regimes in the interwar era. About this period of the Spanish and the European history, he has edited some books: España en la crisis europea de entreguerras. República, fascismo y guerra civil (2011); Tierras de nadie. La Primera Guerra Mundial y sus consecuencias (2014), with Javier Rodrigo; and La rabia y la idea. Política e identidad en la España republicana (1931-1936) (2016), together with Jordi Pomés and Josep Puigsech. He has written extensively on history of intellectuals in fascism, with special attention to the political culture of the Spanish Falangist party. The main result of this research line is the biography of the prominent Falangist leader and intellectual Dionisio Ridruejo. Del fascismo al antifranquismo (2006), as well as several edited books (together with Ferran Gallego): Fascismo en España (2005), Rebeldes y reaccionarios. Intelectuales, fascismo y derecha radical en Europa (2011), and The Last Survivor. Cultural and Social Projects Underlying Spanish Fascism, 1931-1975 (2017). He has been Visiting Scholar at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy. State University of New York, Albany, New York, U.S.A. (Fall semester 2012). He has served as Chair of the Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary History Departament, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2005-2010), and as Vice chancellor for the Academic Staff, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2016-2022). He is an author on education and youth policies of fascist regimes, including the books La escuela y el Estado Nuevo. La depuración del Magisterio Nacional (1936-1943) (1997) and «Libro e moschetto». Política educativa y política de juventud en la Italia fascista (1922-1943) (2001). And on history of the universities on the interwar Europe and during the Franco’s regime. In this line of work, he has prioritized the comparative perspective of the Spanish, Italian and German cases, and he has especially studied the projects of a fascist university and the fascist student organizations. See among other papers:
-«El Sindicato Español Universitario. Estudiantes fascistas, el ejemplo italiano y la lucha contra la democracia en España (1931-1936)», Spagna Contemporanea, 53 (2018) 41-62.
-«The Falange and Academia: Falangist Intellectuals and the Idea of a National-Syndicalist University (1933–1943)», in Ferran Gallego and Francisco Morente (eds.), The Last Survivor. Cultural and Social Projects Underlying Spanish Fascism, 1931-1975, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton & Eastbourne, 2017, pp. 62-89.
-«Estudiantes contra la República. El Sindicato Español Universitario ante el espejo europeo», in Francisco Morente, Jordi Pomés y Josep Puigsech (eds.), La rabia y la idea. Política e identidad en la España republicana (1931-1936), Zaragoza, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2016, pp. 261-288.
-«Los estudiantes nazis en la República de Weimar. Tradición, modernidad, fascistización», in Francisco Cobo Romero, Claudio Hernández Burgos y Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (eds.), Fascismo y modernismo. Política y cultura en la Europa de entreguerras (1918-1945), Granada, Comares, 2016, pp. 61-75.
Fernando Ramos Arenas is an Associate Professor of European Cinema History at the Department of Art History at Complutense University in Madrid, where he is also Key Staff Member of the Jean Monnet Chair Modern Times and PI of the Horizon 2022 project REBOOT (Reviving, Boosting, Optimising and Transforming European Film Competitiveness) (2023-2026). From 2010 to 2017 he was Assistant Professor at Leipzig University, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2010 and his Habilitation in 2020. He was Marie Curie fellow (2015-2017) and in 2017-18 he was visiting researcher at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Since 2022 he is also the editor in chief of the SCOPUS journal Anales de Historia del Arte. His research focuses on European film culture, transnational cultural exchanges and film reception practices and discourses. He has published two monographs on European cinema (on authorship, 2011, and cinephilia, 2021), edited three volumes and written articles for high impact research journals such as Screen, Media History, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, Hispanic Research Journal and Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.
Contact: ferramos@ucm.es | Phone: 91 394 5883
Work Group
Linda Erker is a historian and PostDoc at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (2018-2025). In her second book project she works on the Migration of Knowledge and the Migration of Scientists from Austria to Latin America between 1930 and 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). Her doctoral thesis focused on a historical comparison between the austrofascist regime (1933-1938) and early franquism (1939-1945) from the perspective of the development of universities under fascists systems. She studied history and Spanish at the University of Vienna and the Free University of Berlin. Her research areas include: the history of persecution and migration; the history of science in Austria and Spain (20th century); comparative perspectives on fascism; ideological continuities of political caesurae in Austria (1933/1938/1945/1955), and the culture of remembrance in Austria and Germany after 1945. In 2015 Lind Erker won the “Theodor Körner Prize for Science, Art and Culture”, in 2018 the “Herbert-Steiner-Prize of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance” for her research and her dissertation and in 2022 the "Irma Rosenberg Prize for Research on the History of National Socialism"
Contact: linda.erker@univie.ac.at
Moisés Fernández Cano is a PhD Candidate and PhD research position at the European University Institute in Florence. History Degree at Valencia University, MA at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Erasmus scholarship at the Freïe Universitat auf Berlin. Specialized in Queer History and Histories of sexualities developed in Western- European countries. His thesis project addressed the spaces of daily resistance of homosexual people in the city of Madrid during the Second Francoism. He was interested in daily experiences and the influence of emotions when dealing with space, identity and sexual desire. He combined this project with a training scholarship at the Centro Complutense de Interpretación de la Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid (CCIDECUM), also under the supervision of Professor Rodríguez-López. In this position. Simultaneously, he founded the non-profit academic association MariCorners, where he holds the position of Vice President. At MariCorners he has promoted the organization of the first international conference on LGTBIQ studies in Spain as well as the publication of two monographs: one in physical format and the other in digital format. In 2019 He was also the coordinator of two seminars at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. addressed theories and practices of sex in public and cruising and about the idea of moral panic in the context of the History of Sexualities.
Contact: moises.fernandez@eui.eu
Sarah Lemmen is an assistant professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). Before coming to Madrid, she held research positions and fellowships among others at GWZO Leipzig, University of Vienna, University of Bremen and the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. With a geographical focus on East Central Europe, her research interests include global and transnational phenomena such as the history of migration and exile, of travel and tourism, of cross-border workers, and transborder radio broadcasting. Her latest publications include a special issue (jointly edited with Brigitte Le Normand) on "Ports in State Socialism – or why the Cold War Matters to Maritime History", International Journal of Maritime History 33/1 (2021) and the monograph Tschechen auf Reisen. Repräsentationen der außereuropäischen Welt und nationale Identität in Ostmitteleuropa 1890-1938, Köln-Wien: Böhlau, 2018.
Contact: slemmen@ucm.es. | Phone: 91 394 58 65
Leandro Losada Leandro Losada is specialist in history of elites, political history and history of political thought. He has been a Wallace Fellow at The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy) and visiting researcher at: Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), Complutense University of Madrid, Center for Political and Constitutional Studies ( Madrid), Casa de Velázquez-Madrid Institute for Advanced Study), University of Girona, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università per Stranieri di Siena and Freie Universität Berlin. He has received distinctions from the Presidency of the Nation of the Argentine Republic and from the National Academy of History. He obtained the Ricardo Rojas Special Prize from the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires (Former Municipal Prize) for his book La alta sociedad en la Buenos Aires de la Belle Époque. Sociability, lifestyles and identities (Buenos Aires, Iberoamerican XXI Century, 2008 -Second Edition, National University of Quilmes, 2021-). Author, among others, of: History of the elites in Argentina. From the conquest to the rise of Peronism (Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, 2009), Marcelo T. de Alvear. Revolutionary, president and republican leader (Buenos Aires, Edhasa, 2016), and Machiavelli in Argentina. Uses and readings, 1830-1940 (Buenos Aires, Katz Editores, 2019). His latest book is Machiavelli in the Spanish-Speaking Atlantic World, 1880-1940. Liberal and Anti-Liberal Political Thought (Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
Irene Mendoza Martín is a PhD researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid where she is finishing her PhD thesis. During this time, she did two research fellowships at the University of California- San Diego and at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her main research interests are the history of entertainment, women in the public sphere and the study of young university women in the 20th century. Regarding this last area of research, she had co-authored (with Carolina Rodríguez-López) an article on Spanish university associations published in 2022 in Annali di storia delle università italiane, as well as another article (forthcoming) on women who received a pension from the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios and their access to the labour market. Other publications can be found in book chapters published by Dykinson, Open Book Publishers and Egales, as well as in the journals Ayer, Studia historica. Historia contemporánea and Estudios de Historia de España.
Contact: irene.mendoza.martin@gmail.com
Clara Moura Soares has a degree in Art History (1996) from the School of Arts and Humanities (University of Lisbon) and a Master in Arts, Heritage and Theory of Restoration (1999) from the same institution. PHD 2006. Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and is integrated researcher of the ARTIS – Art History Institute of the same University. Coordinated a research project entitled “Eneias - The collection of painting at the Portugal National Library: from de saving of conventual artistic heritage during the Liberal Revolution to an integrated study of conservation and dissemination (2011-2014), funded by FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology). Is scientific coordinator of the Project ORION - Collections and Art Collectors in Portugal, a Digital Art History research oriented project focused on the study of collections and art collectors in Portugal, supported on a relational database management system (UID/EAT/04189/2016). Integrates the research teams of the following projects: CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation – The study of the healthcare buildings built in Portugal in the 20th century (2016-2019) funded by FCT; and The Marbles of the Anticlinal in Alentejo - 2.000 Years of Memory and Heritage (2017-2019), funded by FEDER (European Regional Development Fund). Has investigated and oriented master's and doctoral theses in various fields of heritage science, including its management, inventory, history and theory of restoration and cultural tourism, with some books and articles published on the same subjects. Is the deputy director and general editor of the electronic journal ARTis ON http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao
Contact: claramourasoares@letras.ulisboa.pt
Jara Muñoz Hernández has a degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in the specialty of Conservation and Restoration of Architectural Heritage. She has a PhD in Architectural Heritage from the same university (Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2022). She works currently as an associate professor at ETSAM (UPM). She works in the line of research of architectural drawing, where her doctoral thesis belongs. It deals with the School of Agricultural Engineers and La Florida state as an original space for the subsequent development of the Ciudad Universitaria. She has taken part in the exhibition Landscapes of a war: the Ciudad Universitaria of Madrid (2015), as well as in the design of various activities within the framework of the 90th anniversary of the Ciudad Universitaria (2017). The result of this research work on the form of the Madrid campus has been reflected in different publications and presentations at national and international congresses and seminars. It is worth mentioning the articles published in specialized magazines such as Arqueología de la Arquitectura, Revista de Humanidades, and Anales del Instituto de Estudios Madrileños or the co-edition of the book Hacia el centenario. La Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid a sus 90 años (2018). She is the editorial secretary of CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades.
Contact: jara.munoz upm.es
Maria João Neto is an Associate Professor in the History of Art Institute at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon. Graduated in History of Art by the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, in 1985, and received the MA and PhD degrees in History of Art, from the same University in 1990 and 1996, respectively. Developed her studies in the areas of Contemporary Art History and Theory and Practice of Architectural Restoration, and focused in particular to the study of the production of architecture and the arts in the time of the dictatorial regime of Salazar. Teaches courses in graduate school in Art, Cultural Heritage and Restoration, Faculty of Humanities of Lisbon, with the direction of several PhDs students. Responsible for several national research projects funded by the FCT and the QREN. Participated in the European Project: Plants in European Masterpieces, financed by EU (Culture 2000), and in a few international projects of architectural conservation developed by World Monuments Fund.
Carmen Núñez Nadal graduated in History in 2010 with an average grade of 7,86 and in the last two years of my degree she specialized in Contemporary History. After completing her studies with an Academically Directed Work, "Education under the Second Francoism: The General Education Law of 1970", and in which she obtained the maximum grade of 10, she understood that research in history was the path that in the near future she wanted to undertake. That is why, in 2012 She started an Interuniversity Master's Degree in Contemporary History, which she resumed and completed in 2018 – 2019, with which she continued my research concern, embodied in a Master's Degree, evaluated with a 9.5. Likewise, she has completed her academic training with a Master's Degree in ESO Teacher Training and Baccalaureate, FP and Language Teaching and for years She has been balancing her interest in research with the teaching of Geography, History and Art in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. PhD candidate. She works on the first women's college of the Complutense University of Madrid during the Franco period (1939 – 1945): Colegio Mayor Santa Teresa de Jesús.
Guadalupe Seia holds a Doctoral degree in Social Sciences and a BA in Sociology by Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Also, she has obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary History by Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Argentina). She has been awarded with research fellowships in México, Spain, Chile, and Germany. Currently, Doctor Seia works as a Tenured Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas in Argentina. She is a Department Member at Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” and Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Her research interests are university and student movements recent history, Latin-American Cold War and transnational and comparative analysis. Guadalupe takes part of several research projects: “Un campus global: universitarios, transferencias culturales y experiencias en el siglo XX” (PID2020-113106GB-I00, Spain) and “Sistema universitario, políticas públicas y movimiento estudiantil en la Argentina, 1973-2015” (PIP 11220200100274CO, Argentina), among others. Also she is member of “Seminario Interinstitucional Latinoamericano de Historia de las Juventudes” (Mexico); “Red de Estudios de Historia de las Juventudes en Iberoamérica” and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Contact: guadalupeseia@gmail.com
Piero Sassi studied architecture and urbanism at the School of Architecture of Ferrara and at the institute of urbanism of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. From 2013 to 2022 he was research associate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where he defended (September 2022) his doctoral thesis on urban planning and development in the capital city Madrid under Franco’s dictatorship (title: "El gran Madrid Capital de España" – Planung und Bau der Hauptstadt Madrid unter der Diktatur Francos 1939–1959). Since 2013 he is the coordinator of the UEDXX (Urbanism of European Dictatorships during the Twentieth Century) scientific network. Since 2023 he is teaching and researching at the Universität Kassel. His main research focus are on Twentieth Century urbanism history, urban regeneration processes as well as spatial planning in European Union’s policies.
Elisa Signori is a full-time professor of Contemporary History at University of Pavia (Department of Humanities) teaching courses in Contemporary European History for Bachelor in Lettere and for the interfaculty post-graduate degree in Modern and Contemporary European History. She was responsible of the modern-contemporary curriculum in the PhD in History at the University of Pavia and is supervisor of several doctoral theses. Since 2013 she is professor of Contemporary History at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano (Switzerland) too. She studied in Pavia and graduated in 1976 with full marks. Since 1973 she was also a student of the Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia, where she obtained a year of post lauream specialization in 1977. She has given lessons and seminars, and presented conferences at numerous Universities, both in Italy and abroad (including Universities of Sydney, Tokyo, Genève, Paris, Budapest).
Contact: signori@unipv.it | Phone: +39 0382 984732
Alejandra Beatriz Pérez-Escartin is a PhD researcher at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research focuses on the fashion system in Mexico and its incidence on journalism produced by women. She belongs to the Research Center in Fashion and Contemporary Phenomena at Universidad Villanueva de Madrid. She holds an M.A. in media research. She has obtained grants from the Mexican government (FONCA and Conacyt) and Spanish Institutions (Santander Bank-Computense University). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) on the research projects: "La configuración de géneros literarios en la prensa mexicana de los siglos XIX y XX", and “Rescate de obras de escritores mexicanos del siglo XIX” at the Philological Research Institute.
Contact: alejpe16@ucm.es