Complutense University of Madrid

Faculty Member, Contemporary History

Ph. D. Assistant Professor (Profesora Ayudante Doctor)

Faculty of Geography and History

About

Carolina Rodríguez-López (Madrid, 1971). Ph.D. Complutense University of Madrid in 2001 is Assistant Professor at Complutense University of Madrid, Contemporary History Department since 2007. She was junior researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and in l’Université de la Sorbonne-Panthéon I. She has been Visiting Scholar in Harvard University in 2009 and 2010.
Her research strands include History of University (education institutions and academic elites alike), Intellectual history and cultural transfers (mainly academic exiles), Historiography trends and Women’s history.
She is the author of Tradición, autoridad y monarquía. Pío Zabala y Lera y su España bajo los Borbones and La Universidad de Madrid en el primer franquismo: ruptura y continuidad (1939-1951), as well as the co-author of La universidad española, 1889-1939. Repertorio de legislación and Hacia un modelo universitario: la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She has contributed to collective volumes edited in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Argentina and Spain and has published several articles in Ayer, Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, Cuadernos del Instituto Antonio de Nebrija de Estudios sobre la Universidad y Revista de Historiografía among others.
Her current research is focused on a comparative study about German and Spanish academic exile in the United States. As a result he has published the chapter « La emigración científica alemana en EEUU durante el III Reich. Caminos de una historia transnacional », in F. Gallego (ed.), Rebeldes y reaccionarios. Intelectuales, fascismo y derecha radical en Europa (Barcelona, 2011). She is also co-editor –in collaboration with José M. Faraldo- of the book:  Reconsidering a lost intellectual Project: Exiles’ reflections on cultural differences (London, 2012).
She has participated in seminars as a guest researcher in the US, Argentina, Italy (among other European countries) and Spain.

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