Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz
- Position: Teaching Fellow in Modern British Histor
- Areas of expertise: Postwar Europe. Modern and Contemporary British History, Twentieth-Century Spanish history; political violence, 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 British 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 developing a new project on the life of communist guerrilla fighter Ilio Barontini (1890-1951), provisionally entitled ‘Il Cavaliere Guerrigliero. Ilio Barontini and the Making of Revolutionary Warfare (1890-1951)’. While my project on Hobsbawm focuses on global communism and political commitment in the second half of the twentieth century, the new project takes a step back and looks at global communism and political engagement in the first half of the century.
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 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.