About

I am a Profesor Contratado Doctor (assistant professor, tenured) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM); I have been Ramón-y-Cajal researcher at the UCM (2009-2015). My Ph. Diss in history was at the same university with a work on Russian nationalism. After further studies in history and cultural studies in Moscow, Frankfurt/Oder and Poznań I worked from 1997 to 2002, at the European University Viadrina, in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany). From 2004 to 2008 I was research fellow and project coordinator at the Center of Research on Contemporary History, (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, ZZF), in Potsdam (Germany). I have published extensively in English, German, Spanish and Polish languages. Some works: about nationalism in Polish communism (Europe, Nation, Communism. Essays on Poland, New York, Frankfurt 2008), on Europeanism in Socialist countries (Europe in the Eastern Bloc. Imaginations and Discourses, Vienna/Cologne 2008 [with Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel and Christian Domnitz (Eds.)]), about resistance against fascism and communism in comparison (La Europa Clandestina. La Resistencia contra las ocupaciones nazi y soviética (1938-1948), Madrid 2011); exiles from dictatorships (Reconsidering a Lost Intellectual Project. Exiles’ Reflections on Cultural Differences, CSP 2012 [with Carolina Rodríguez-López (eds.)]), history of Tourism (Introducción a la historia del Turismo, Madrid 2013[with Carolina Rodríguez-López]). My last book has been a critical review of the Russian revolution of 1917 and its memory (La Revolución rusa: historia y memoria, Madrid 2017).