José Luis Ledesma
José Luis Ledesma holds a PhD in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute (Florence) and currently teaches History of Social and Political Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid. Previously he has been a researcher at Yale University (2007-2008), Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza (2008-2013) and a postdoctoral researcher "Juan de la Cierva" at UCM and has done research stays at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and at the London School of Economics.
His research has focused on violence in Civil War and post-war Spain, with a particular specialization in the Republican zone. He has also developed other lines of research such as Spanish anarchism, the Second Republic and the Popular Front, anticlericalism, and the memories and public representations of the Spanish Civil War. He also studies other phenomena of violence, civil war and revolution in Interwars Europe in a comparative perspective.
He is the author of Los días de llamas de la revolución (2004) and Las justicias del pueblo (forthcoming), co-author of Violencia roja y azul. España 1936-1945 (2010), as well as co-director of La Guerra Civil en Aragón (2006, 12 vols.) and co-editor, among others, of Culturas y políticas de la violencia. España siglo XX (2005), Avenida de la República (2007) and La República del Frente Popular (2010).
