Dr Andrew Dowling

Overview

I am a contemporary historian working in the Hispanic Studies Department within the School of Modern Languages and joined Cardiff University in 2002 from the Department of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Prior to this, I spent seven years in the city of Barcelona, where I completed my doctorate. My research has centred on Catalan history in the 20th century and in particular, the political articulation of Catalan nationalism under both the Franco dictatorship and democratic Spain. Recent  research centred on the emergence of pro-independence mobilisation in Catalonia and I completed a research monograph for Routledge on this subject in 2018. My next monograph, A Short History of Catalonia, is published in 2022 by Routledge.

I am editor for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Spanish History, a volume which brings together around 45 Spanish and international scholars of Spain.

I am on the Editorial Board of the journal Dictatorship and Democracies, based in Spain and the editorial committee of the political monthly Treball. I have been a particpatant in a series of successful research funding bids with scholars from Spanish universities, with projects focussing on regions, nationalism and identity in Spain. The latest, with funding from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, runs from 2020 to 2023 and includes colleagues from the universities of Valencia and Barcelona.

I teach courses on the modern and contemporary history of Spain, and co-ordinate the School Final Year Module Protest and Dissent in the 1960s.

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students on any area of modern Catalan history and politics, nationalism in Spain and theoretical approaches to nationalism and have successfully supervised to completion four students, most recently in 2020.

I regularly comment in national and international media on issues of contemporary concern to Spain, including the BBC, CNN, France 24, the Associated Press and TRT World, and have been cited in a number of Spanish media outlets including El Pais, La Vanguardia and CTXT.