COORDINATORS
Gabriela de Lima Grecco
PhD Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern History and Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 2018 and 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political History, Theories and Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as in the Department of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Researcher Talent Attraction contract for the Community of Madrid). PhD in Contemporary History from the Autonomous University of Madrid, with the thesis From the pen as a trade to the official pen: state and literature during the new states of Getúlio Vargas and Francisco Franco (1936-1945), which received the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate. She was a visiting researcher (all with public or private funding) at the University of California Los Angeles, at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, at the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), at the Fundación Getúlio Vargas and at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is part of several national and international projects and research groups, being the main researcher in one of them together with Dr. Misael Arturo López Zapico, The relations of European and Latin American dictatorships in a transnational key: understanding, rivalries and connections with democratic States (1930's - 1980's). She was a guest / visiting professor at USP and at PUCRS. She has published more than 40 articles and book chapters, as well as she has been editor of several books and author of two works: Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco ’s Spain and Getulio Vargas ’Brazil. Burning Books, Awarding Writers (2020) and Palavras que Resistem: Censura e promoção literária na ditadura de Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945) (2021).
Tania Hernández Vicencio
Tania Hernández Vicencio has a PhD in social sciences from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, where she was also a researcher in the Departments of Social Studies and Public Administration, and Coordinator of Masters in Regional Development. She is currently a professor-researcher art he Direction of Historical Studies of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, where she has also been Deputy Director of the Contemporary History Area. She has taught courses at El Colef, at the Universidad Iberoamericana, at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in all its branches and at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. She is a member of the National System of Researchers Level II. Her lines of research are: politics and religión in contemporary Mexico, rights in Mexican history and elites and political representation. In 2015 she founded and since then coordinates the Permanent Seminar on Rights in Mexico. She is a member of the following academic networks: Mexican Society of Electoral Studies, and within this, of the Working Groups on Electoral Methodologies and Political Parties, as well as the CLACSO Working Group: Right, Dictatorships and Contemporary Democracies, and the Mexican Network of Political Scientists.
Associate Professor of History of Contemporary America and Republican Brazil at the Department of History at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), working in the Postgraduate Program in History. CNPq Research Productivity Scholarship - Level 2. Ph.D. in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) with an internship (junior visiting fellowship), at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) and with a postdoctoral degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Centro de Estudios Avanzados / Argentina). Member of the Administrative Council of the International Association of Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas). Collaborating researcher at the Center for the Study of Religious History at the Catholic University of Portugal (CEHR / UCP) and external collaborator at HISPONA / University of Santiago de Compostela. Recent research has focused on issues related to the History of Latin America, in the fields of Political and Cultural History, as well as transnational elements and approaches compared to the Iberian Peninsula. From the perspective of political cultures, he develops research dedicated to the understanding of conservatism, immigration and religions, especially within the scope of the studies of rights, authoritarianism and authoritarian regimes, fascisms, integralism, Francoism salazarism
Leandro Pereira Gonçalves
Toni Morant
Associated Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Valencia. He is Principal Investigator 2 of the project Franquismo, género y nación. Perspectivas transnacionales e interseccionales (PID2022-141082NB-C22), funded by the Spanish Research Agency and the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. Between 2010 and 2015, he worked at the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics at the University of Münster (Germany). He was a Visiting Researcher at the Universities of Vienna and Complutense in Madrid, as well as a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Potsdam, Humboldt in Berlin, Vienna and Juiz de Fora. His international PhD thesis (2014) focused on the relations between the Women's Section of the Falange and youth and women's organisations in Nazi Germany. His research mainly addresses gender and fascism from a transnational perspective, with a special focus on cross-border cooperation and on the women of the Brazilian Integralist Action. He also researches the persistence of Francoist symbols in public spaces after 1979, as well as antisemitism. He co-edited Reactionary Nationalists, Fascists and Dictatorships: Against Democracy (Palgrave 2019) and The Right and the Nation: Transnational Perspectives (Routledge 2023), and is the author of numerous articles in renowned international journals, including the Journal of Contemporary History, Ayer, Historia y Política, Zeitgeschichte, Nordisk Judaistik, and Análise Social.