Ezequiel Varela Vázquez

Profile

Hola! I guess that if you find this profile, it means that you are interested in the history of Spain or eugenics! I am a first-year PhD candidate at the School of History, funded by UKRI through WRoCAH. The provisional title of my thesis is: Love Properly, Reproduce Wisely: The Intersection of Anglo-Saxon, German Nordic and Latin Eugenic Views in Spain (1898-1939), under the supervision of Prof. Peter Anderson and Prof. Richard Cleminson.

I completed a bachelor’s degree in history in Santiago de Compostela’s University in 2022, being awarded the Extraordinary End of Studies Prize. Next, I studied for an MA in History in 2023 at Oxford Brookes University, where I graduated with a distinction. In addition, the School of History also awarded me the Detlef Mühlberger Prize for the best MA dissertation, under the title Neither Here Nor There: Latin Eugenic Notions in Gregorio Marañón’s Works between 1920-1942.

Then, I went on to complete a Teaching Master's in 2024 at Complutense University of Madrid. At the same time, I also received a JAE-Intro scholarship to work with the Spanish National Research Council under the supervision of Ricardo Campos Marin (Department of the History of Science).

My research interests range from the history of medicine and eugenics to the history of sexuality, particularly of homosexuality and queer history. If you are interested to discuss about these issues, please do not doubt to reach me thourgh my email or my Linkedin profile: www.linkedin.com/in/ezequiel-varela-vázquez-a5551927a

Conference, Presentations and Seminars

09/12/2025: ‘Storytelling – Who is “Dr Ferrero”? How a historical finding can shape your research’, School of History PGR Seminar, University of Leeds

15/10/2025: ‘Contacting Psychiatrists: Gonzalo Rodriguez Lafora and Policymaking in Spain (1920-1936)’, WRoCAH Welcome Event, University of York

25/04/2025: ‘El terrmoto de Libsoa (1755): sismologia y teodicea’ (Alejandro Gomez Masdeu) and ‘El archivo clinico de afora como fuente para el estudio de la sexualidad masculina (1915-1947)’ (Ezequiel Varela), Seminario JAE Intro del Departamento de Historia de la Ciencia, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS)

26/02/2025: ‘Eugenics shaping Spain: Maranon’s ideas of masculinity and femininity in his envisaged society (1922-1933), British Soceity for the History of Science PGR Conference, University of Leeds

13/02/2025: ‘Lo que el franquismo se llevo: nociones de feminidad y de masculinidad en la sociedad ideal de Gregorio Maranon (1922-1933)’, I Jornadas Jae Intro del Instituto de Historia (Ezequiel Varela and Ricardo Campos co-organisers), Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS)

28/11/2024: ‘Categorising and Codifying Male Sexual Deviance: A Comparative Study of England and Spain (1885-1928)’, School of History PGR Seminar, University of Leeds

20/04/2023: ‘Latin Eugenic Notions in Gregorio Maranon’s Works’, Conference GetPublished!, Oxford Brookes University

My most recent publication is: Ezequiel Varela Vazquez, “Eugenics shaping Spain: Marañón’s ideas of masculinity and feminity in his envisaged society (1922-1933)”, Revista POLIS, 12.4,46 (2024): pp. 71-84.

Research interests

• history of Spain
• history of the Iberian peninsula
• history of eugenics
• history of sexuality
• history of race
• history of medicine

Qualifications

• Bachelor of History (2018-2022). University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Master of Arts (2022-2023). Oxford Brookes University, England
• Master of Teaching (2024-2025). University Complutense of Madrid, Spain

Research groups and institutes

• Centre for the History of Ibero-America