Surname: Aguirre Herráinz               

Name: Pablo

Date of birth: 22/09/1989

Email: cerbuteca@gmail.com

 Pablo Aguirre holds a degree in History from the University of Zaragoza (2007-2011), and received an award for academic excellence at the University of La Rioja in the year 2012. He has also coursed the Master in Contemporary History, who has been recently awarded a citation of excellence (MMEE2011-0643; 253 BOE resolution, 20/10/12). His Master's Dissertation, entitled “The republican exile in France (1939-1940). The case of Spanish refugees in Basses-Pyrénées. A welcoming under suspicion”, focuses on the immediate experience of those who crossed the frontier while the civil war, back in Spain, was coming to his end (January-February, 1939). The project report deals with the French attitude towards the republican refugees until the Armistice Day on 22 June, the time from which France was partially invaded by Germany and collaboration policy emerged from Vichy. To this extent, the memory of the project was based on personal research carried out from the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departmental Archive (visited in October 2012). The dissertation was presented in November 2012 and scored the highest result.

Pablo Aguirre has also received previous grants from the University of Zaragoza and from the Pedro Cerbuna College (respectively, an administrative support grant during the 2011 enrollment period, and a library stock management and cultural diffusion grant for the 2010-2011 academic year). Besides, he has organized different events and participated in many distinctive university activities, such as conferences, lectures, colloquiums, and representative functions. Finally, he has an intermediate level command of English (B2 Level), and he is currently studying French and German as complementary languages (third and second course, respectively) at the Zaragoza School of Languages.

Al present Pablo Aguirre takes part of the research group “The Spanish Civil War Memory during the Transition to Democracy” (a research project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness; reference: AHR2011-25154; duration: 2012-2014), in which he develops his PhD in Contemporary History as a research fellow (given a loan from the Ministry of Education’s University Faculty Training –FPU- programme). Therefore, his main field of research concentrates on the successive decades of exile, from the postwar in France to the democratic transition in Spain, along with the returns and continuous bordering contacts between exiles and countrymen.