José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas, Ph.D.

Research areas

Modern Europe, State socialism, intellectual history, human science expertise, everyday life history, comparative history

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

2010–2014: Bachelor in History, University of Granada and Jagellonian University of Krakow, thesis title: Non-violent civil resistance. The struggle against the State in Poland

2015–2016: Master in Contemporary History, University Complutense of Madrid, thesis title: The Intellectuals and the Gulag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Spanish Culture (1973-1982)

2017–2022: Ph.D. in The GDR and the European Dictatorships after 1945 at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, thesis title: The Civilization of Leisure. East Germany, Spain, Europe and the Quest for Modern Leisure

Foreign internships and scholarships

2014: Research assistant, Lech Walesa Institute, Jagellonian University of Krakow

2017–2021: PhD researcher, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, project: The GDR and the European dictatorships after 1945

2021: Research fellow, Stiftung Ettersberg (Erfurt)

2022: Visegrad fellow, Open Society Archives, Central European University

International grants and projects

2017–2021: Die DDR und die Europäische Diktaturen nach 1945 / The GDR and the European Dictatorships after 1945, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, team member

Projects of Excellence in Basic Research

2021–2026: Expertíza v autoritářských společnostech. Vědy o člověku v socialistických zemích středovýchodní Evropy / Expertise in Authoritarian societies. Human Sciences in the Socialist Countries of East-Central Europe, Czech Science Foundation, EXPRO – Excellence in Research grant (2021-2026), team member

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the REIECO (Network of Researchers of East Central Europe), University Complutense of Madrid (since 2021)