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Andrew Dowling

Dr Andrew Dowling

Reader in Hispanic Studies

School of Modern Languages

Email
DowlingA@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75608
Campuses
66a Park Place, Room 1.12, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3AS
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Media commentator
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Available for postgraduate supervision

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. I published Catalonia: A New History in 2022 in the Routledge Studies in Modern European History series.

I am editor for the Routledge Handbook of Spanish History, a volume which brings together 45 Spanish and international scholars of Spain, to be published in late 2023.

I am a particpatant in a series of successful research funding bids with scholars from Spanish and other European 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 2023 to 2026 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, Vilaweb and CTXT.

Publication

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

  • Dowling, A. 2016. A tale of two cities. Madrid and Barcelona in Spain. In: Cole, A. and Payre, R. eds. Cities as Political Objects. Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation. Cities Series Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 79-95.

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2014

2013

2012

2009

2006

2005

2001

Articles

Book sections

Books

Research

My scholarship on Catalonia and Spain, which straddles historical sociology, political science and contemporary history, is ideally situated to combine academic rigour and reach wider audiences. My third sole authored monograph Catalonia: A New History, published by Routledge, provides a social, political and economic analysis of a minority nation and fully engages with the theory of nationalism, historical sociology and historiography. 

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to Spain (Year One)
  • Business Spanish (Year Two)
  • Spain 1898-1975 (Year Two)
  • May 68: Marking Changes in European Politics and Culture (Year Four) Module Lead
  • Cultures of Dissent and Rebellion in Spain (Four)
  • Politics and Society in Spain (Four)

Postgraduate

  • MA Global Studies
  • MA Translation Studies
  • Research Methods and Skills

Supervisions

I supervise students in the areas of historical sociology, comparative and national history, with a particular focus on questions of national identity.

I welcome applications from students of:

Historical sociology

Nationalism and Identity

Modern and Contemporary Spain

Catalan studies

Historical sociology

Music and dissent

Radical politics