José Luis Aguilar López-Barajas, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher – Department of Modern Transnational and Intellectual History
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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 of Arts 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 of 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: Friedrich Schiller University of Jena: Die DDR und die Europäische Diktaturen nach 1945, team member
Projects of Excellence in Basic Research
2021–2026: EXPRO – Excellence in Research grant (2021-2026), Czech Science Foundation: Expertise in authoritarian societies. Human sciences in the socialist countries of East-Central Europe, team member
Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils
REIECO (Network of Researchers of East Central Europe), University Complutense of Madrid (since 2021)