Ezequiel Varela Vázquez

Profile

Hi, nice to meet you! I am a first-year PhD candidate at the School of History, funded by UKRI through WRoCAH. The provisional title of my thesis is: The Search of the Galician Race: Eugenics, National Identity, and Womanhood in North-West Spain (1900-1936), 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.

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 / 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