LOURENZO
FERNANDEZ PRIETO

Lourenzo Fernández Prieto is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was visiting professor at the universities of London (1991), Cork (1999), CUNY (2013) and Princeton (2015). He researches on: Rural society of the 20th century: technological and social change; rural world in the Franco regime; civil war and politics of memory. Among his 185 publications, some recent: with Soto Fernández, D. (2010): "The Atlantic in the Mediterranean you are: The same state, other landscapes... the same peasants?", Garrabou, R., Sombras de progress, Critique; (2011): “Interpreting Galician History: The Recent Construction of an Unknown Past”, Hooper, K. and Puga, M. (eds.), Contemporary Galician Studies. Between the Local and the Global, NYC, MLAA; (2014): with Aurora Artiaga. Other views on the coup, war and dictatorship, Cataract; with M. Cabo & J, Pan-Montojo, Agriculture in the Age of Fascism. Authoritarian Technocracy and Rural Modernization, 1922-1945, Brepols; (2018): Lana's Civil War story told by the sisters. Comars; with the. Miguez, Coupists and Executioners of 1936, Galaxia, (2020): with D. Lanero: Milk and milkmaids in the 20th century. From innovative organic fusion wool, the Green Revolution wool, PUZ; with Alba Díaz (2021), Senderos de lana Historia. Views and actors in half a century of rural history, Comares; "Women's agrarianism..." VV.AA. At the turn of time. Generals. He supervised 19 doctoral theses; he directed 21 competitive research projects and 19 conventions. Until 2021 he was director of the Department of History and director of the Juana de Vega Chair. Nowadays is Scientific Director of CISPAC and is currently Vice President of SEHA (Society for Agrarian History Studies).