Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz
- Position: Teaching Fellow in Modern History
- Areas of expertise: Twentieth-Century Spanish history; Political violence in the twentieth century Europe (1914-1952) Modern British History, Political and cultural memory in modern and contemporary Europe
- Email: I.ItoizCiaurriz@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 414 Parkinson
- Website: ORCID
Profile
After receiving a BA (Hons) in History and Politicis (2014) and then an MA in Modern History (2015) from the Complutense University of Madrid, I moved to the University of Edinburgh to begin work on my PhD. under the supervision of Professor Emile Chabal. Having held a temporary teaching fellow in Modern European History at Durham University, I joined the University of Leeds in August 2024 as Teaching Fellow in Modern History.
Research interests
I am a historian of twentieth-century European and British political and intellectual life. My research interests lie broadly in the political and intellectual history of political movements, political theory and historical memory.
My current research agenda is twofold. First, I am currently working towards my first monograph, based on my doctoral research on the political commitment of Eric Hobsbawm. I use Hobsbawm’s life and work to think through the history of twentieth-century global Communism, as well as reflect on the nature of political commitment and place them within a broader narrative of intellectual engagement in the second half of the twentieth century. It engages with a wide range of sources - Hobsbawm’s private papers - and draws on scholarship on emotions, intellectual, comparative, and biographical history.
Second, I am now beginning a new project that builds on aspects of my previous research on political violence and identity. Provisionally titled The Unmaking and Remaking of Europe: Consent, Coercion, and Ordinary Violence in Spain, France, and Italy (1936–1952), this project explores the upheavals in Europe during this period, focusing on Spain, France, and Italy. It examines how civil war, fascism, and total war ‘unmade’ Europe and how it was subsequently ‘remade’ through consent, coercion, and ordinary violence. Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, it aims to deepen our understanding of political violence, recovery, and memory.
Qualifications
- PhD in History
- MA in Modern History
- BA (Hons) History
- BA (Hons) Political Science
Professional memberships
- Royal Historical Society
Student education
At undergraduate level, I teach first-year course on glboal decolonisation and the making of the twentieth century, second-year strand on Postwar Europe (1945-1968), second year course on British history since 1945 and a third eyar module on Contemporary British history.