LUIS GONZAGA
MARTÍNEZ DEL CAMPO

Luis G. Martínez del Campo is ‘Ramón y Cajal’ Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the Complutense University of Madrid. After completing a PhD (European distinction) at the University of Zaragoza in 2014, he held postdoctoral positions at the Universidad de Concepción (Chile), University of Essex (UK) and Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (Basque Country, Spain). His research explores the history of Spanish cultural diplomacy, with a special focus on the emergence of Spanish language education as a soft-power resource. His works have appeared in Contemporary European History, Ayer and the Journal of Borderlands Studies, as well as in several edited volumes. He is the author of Cultural Diplomacy: A Hundred Years of History of the British- Spanish Society (Liverpool University Press, 2016), which examines the history of a cultural institution at the heart of the relationship between Britain and the Spanish-speaking world in the twentieth century.