Santiago López Rodríguez

Short presentation

Santiago López Rodríguez is a Spanish historian. He completed his Ph.D. dissertation “Spanish Foreign Office during the Holocaust in Occupied France (1940-1944)”. He taught at the University of Extremadura (2017-2020) and was also a visiting researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (2017-2018) as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2019). Since September 2021 he is a postdoctoral researcher at Hugo Valentin Centre.

Keywords

• historia
• fascism
• nationalism
• holocaust and genocide studies
• holocaust memory culture
• antisemitism
• holocaust history
• spanish history
• iberian peninsula history
• nazism

Biography

Santiago López Rodríguez (Salamanca, 1991) graduated in History and Historical Heritage at the University of Extremadura (2009–2013), where he also finished two Masters: one in Teaching (2014) and the other in Research and Humanities (2015). He completed his Ph.D. dissertation “Spanish Foreign Office during the Holocaust in Occupied France (1940-1944)” with a National Research Grant (2016–2020) which obtained the distinctions of Summa Cum Laude, International Mention, and Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2021). His research deals with Franco’s regime and the Holocaust, the focus being on the diplomatic role of Spain in occupied countries. He taught at the University of Extremadura (2017-2020) and was also a visiting researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (2017-2018) as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2019). Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Hugo Valentin Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University (2021-2023) where he is conducting a research project entitled: “Witnessing the Holocaust: Spain and Portugal during the Second World War”.