Identification
            Personal identification
- Full name
- Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez
Citation names
- Zoffmann Rodriguez, Arturo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6112-794B-8F76
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2557-7848
Email addresses
- arturo.zoffmann@eui.eu (Professional)
- azoffmann@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Telephones
- Mobile phone
- 
                           - (+34) 651360114 (Personal)
 
Websites
- https://me.eui.eu/arturo-zoffmann-rodriguez/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Catalan (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | 
| Greek | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | 
| Italian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | 
| Russian | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | 
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | 
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | 
| German | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) | Elementary (A2) | 
| Turkish | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | 
Education
            | Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
| 2015/09/01 - 2019/06/25 Concluded | PhD in European History and Civilisation (Doctor of Philosophy) European University Institute, Italy "The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917-24" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | |
| 2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Concluded | M.Res. in European History and Civilisation (Master) European University Institute, Italy | |
| 2013/10/15 - 2015/07/15 Concluded | MPhil in Modern British and European History (Master) University of Oxford, United Kingdom "‘We behaved like real Bolsheviks’: the Spanish CNT and the Russian Revolution, 1917-24" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | |
| 2010/09/25 - 2013/07/01 Concluded | History (Bachelor) University College London, United Kingdom "How to Live and What to Do?’ The Identity of the Russian Working Class in a Period of Ideological Crisis: 1900-1921" (THESIS/DISSERTATION) | First Class Honours | 
Affiliation
            Science
| Category Host institution | Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/07/15 - 2027/07/15 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal | 
| 2025/02/20 - 2025/03/20 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Sabanci Üniversitesi, Turkey | 
| Sabanci Üniversitesi, Turkey | ||
| 2023/10/15 - 2024/01/15 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Panteion Panepistemio Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Greece | 
| 2020/03/01 - 2021/02/28 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | 
| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Mexico | ||
| 2015/09 - 2019/06 | Researcher (Research) | European University Institute, Italy | 
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution | Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/01 - 2022/12/31 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil | 
| 2021/01/01 - 2021/06/01 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher) | El Colegio de México AC, Mexico | 
| 2018/04/01 - 2019/06/01 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain | 
Projects
            Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/10 - Current | Transiciones: desmontaje de dictaduras y construcción de democracias en perspectiva comparada PID2022-140112NB-I00 Researcher
                                     Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Universidad de Granada, Spain | Ongoing | 
| 2025/04/01 - 2030/03/31 | The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39 Principal investigator
                                     Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | European Research Council | 
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/06/01 - Current | The Hispanic-Anglosphere: Transnational networks, global communities, 1700-1900s PhD Student Fellow
                                     Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom | Ongoing | 
Outputs
            Publications
| Book | 
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| Book chapter | 
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| Book review | 
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| Journal article | 
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| Manual | 
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| Online resource | 
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| Thesis / Dissertation | 
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Activities
            Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/11/15 | Justiça com as próprias mãos: polícia privada, paramilitares e somatens na crise da Restauração na Espanha, 1917-1923 | Polícia(s) e Sociedade. Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal) | 
| 2021/10/28 | Fascist labour? Barcelona’s Sindicatos Libres and the Spanish far right, 1919-23 | Neo-fascism and the radical right Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal) | 
| 2020/10/20 | De México a Moscú pasando por Madrid: Mijaíl Borodin y los orígenes del comunismo en México y España | Seminario permanente México-España Colegio de México (Mexico City, Mexico) | 
| 2019/12/05 | Freedom deferred’: Francesc Cambó and the Crisis of Spanish Liberalism, 1917-23 | Construção do Estado, Movimentos Sociais e Economia Política New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) | 
| 2019/06 | The shadow of October in the heat of July: the memory of the Russian Revolution in the Spanish anarchist “debate on power”, July-September 1936 | Historical Materialism University of Panteion (Athens, Greece) | 
| 2018/10 | An honest worker against the red tyrants: Barcelona’s dirty war between libres and cenetistas | Industrial Vigilantism, Strikebreaking and Patterns of Anti-Labour Violence, 1890s-1930s The University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) | 
| 2018/06 | Revolutionary cosmopolitanism in action: The London protests over Francesc Ferrer’s execution, 1909 | The Hispanic-Anglosphere Workshop The University of Winchester (Winchester, United Kingdom) | 
| 2017/12 | "We behaved like real Bolsheviks”: the Spanish CNT and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1924 | The Centenary of the October Revolution New University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) | 
| 2017/11 | “El anarquista ruso era un semidiós”: el anarcosindicalismo español ante la Revolución rusa, 1917-1923 | Centenario de la Revolución rusa University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) | 
| 2017/05 | ‘“Anarchists will have to act as bosses”: the Spanish anarchists, the Soviet regime, and the question of political power, 1917-36 | Beyond 1917: socialism, power and social change The University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) | 
| 2017/03 | 'Behind me, the Cheka, the persecutions, but also the seeds of a new world’: anarchist travellers in Soviet Russia, 1917-24 | Reform and revolution in Europe, 1917-1919 University of Tampere (Tampere, Finland) | 
| 2016/06 | The Spanish anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917-24 | World Counterrevolutions: 1917-1920 from a global perspective Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität (Hanover, Germany) | 
Supervision
| Thesis Title Role | Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Current | Low Tide. The Soviet Mith in Southern Europe between 1975 and 1991: the Collective imaginary and self-representation of Communists
                                 in Italy, Spain, Portugal Co-supervisor | 
Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/07/08 - Current | Co-organiser, International Conference: Communicating Community: Anarchism and its Boundaries (2019/07) Conference (Co-organisor) | European University Institute, Italy | 
| 2021/11/26 - 2021/11/27 | International Conference: National Liberation, World Revolution: Anti-Colonialism and the Origins of Communism, 1914-24 (2021/11/26 - 2021/11/27) Conference (President of the Organising Committee) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal | 
| 2017/10/05 - 2017/10/07 | Co-organiser, International Conference, The peripheries of the European revolutionary process(es): 1917-23 (2017/10) Conference (Co-organisor) | European University Institute, Italy | 
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event | Event name Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/11/02 - Current | The constitutional road to dictatorship: states of exception and authoritarianism in interwar Europe Conference | Methodological Questions in Social Sciences], University of Crete, 2023 Panepistemio Kretes, Greece | 
| 2023/10/24 - Current | Guest discussant: Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, ‘Communist Internationalism and Anticolonial Cultures: the place of Africa’ Conference | A world without empire? Encounters and connections between African, European, and Soviet Communists, 1920s to 1970s Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy | 
| 2023/09/06 - Current | The Sindicatos Libres: trade union violence and right-wing mass politics, 1917-23 Conference | Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea Universidad de la Rioja, Spain | 
| 2022/04/02 - Current | States of exception, militarism, and the crisis of the liberal state: Spain and Portugal, 1917-26 Conference | Historical Materialism International Conference, Kadir Has University Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Turkey | 
| 2024/11/05 - 2024/11/06 | Presentation of paper: "Beat a scab, shoot the president: Spanish pistolerismo and labour violence in Europe" Workshop | Strikebreaking and the Counter-Revolution: Far-Right Anti-Labour Organisation after  the Russian Revolution, 1917-1939 Universitetet i Oslo, Norway | 
Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11 - Current | Historical Materialism | |
| 2024/05 - Current | Historia Actual online | |
| 2024/02/01 - Current | Historia Social | |
| 2024/01/15 - Current | Historical Materialism | |
| 2021/11/01 - Current | Journal of Global History (1740-0228) | |
| 2021/04/01 - Current | Visioni Latinoamericane (2035-6633) | Università di Trieste | 
| 2020/12/01 - Current | Left History (1913-9632) | University of Toronto | 
| 2020/04/01 - Current | História: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (978-0-19-873163-4) | 
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/01 - Current | The Hispanic Anglosphere | Associate Researcher | 
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/06 - Current | Espanha traumática: guerra, ditadura, resistencias, 1936-1975 | |
| 2022/06 - Current | A crise do estado liberal no contexto ibérico | IHC-NOVA-FCSH | 
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/10 - Current | Guest lecturer (2 hours). University of Santiago. Module: Civil Wars. Lecture title: ‘La Guerra civil rusa [The Russian Civil War]. Modern history MA. | MA in Modern History | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 
| 2023/12/02 - Current | The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution | History | Panepistemio Ioanninon, Greece | 
| 2023/11/06 - Current | The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution | Sociology | Panepistemio Kretes, Greece | 
| 2022/10/01 - 2022/12/22 | História da Revolçao Russa | (Master) | Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil | 
| 2022/03/03 - 2022/03/04 | First-year PhD course in the Global History of Empire | PhD in Global History of Empires (Doctor) | Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Italy | 
| 2021/12/10 - 2021/12/10 | Guest lecturer: Proletarian turf war: the rise and fall of Barcelona's Sindicatos Libres, 1919-23 | Politics and violence in the contemporary age (Master) | Università degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche Geografiche e dell¿Antichità, Italy | 
| 2021/01 - 2021/06 | Historia contemporánea de Rusia | Relaciones Internacionales (Bachelor) | El Colegio de México AC, Mexico | 
| 2018/04/01 - 2019/06/01 | Visiting professor at the University of Barcelona during the spring terms of 2018 and 2019. I taught the section of the Contemporary History module dealing with the Eastern bloc and the Soviet Union in 1945-1991. | Història (Bachelor) | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Departament d'Història Moderna i Contemporània, Spain | 
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role | Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/01 - Current | Evaluation of post-doc grant applications. Evaluator | Casa de Velázquez, Spain | 
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/10 | As leis de excepção contribuíram para “minar as práticas democráticas” no século XX (entrevista com Jornal Público) | Público | 
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/12/15 - Current | Jacobin Greece | History of Spanish Anarchism | 
Distinctions
            Award
| 2020 | UNAM post-doctoral grant in the humanities Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico | 
| 2018 | Ayudas de estancias breves (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte) | 
| 2016 | EUI research grant European University Institute, Italy | 
| 2015 | Salvador de Madariaga PhD scholarship | 
