Gonzalo Vicente Pasamar Alzuria is Professor of Contemporary History since 2020 and has been Associate Professor of Contemporary History from 1991 to 2020. He gives classes at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).
He has also been Visiting Research Professor at the US University of Rutgers (campus of Newark) (United States) from August to November 2006 with a fellowship funded by the Spanish State. In April 2015 he was visiting professor at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) within the Subprogram Erasmus Plus (Mobility teaching staff). He has four-year research periods and six-year teaching ones (with high-positive evaluations from 2006) accredited, his field of enquiry being the history of historiography and the Spanish contemporary memories. He is currently working on the representations of the Spanish the Transition to democracy during the last forty years.
Up to 2020, he has contributed with chapters to 11 books and with 12 contributions to Congresses (all of them published). As a single author or co-author, he has six books of research (one of them in English language: “Apologia and Criticism: Historians and the History of Spain, 1500-2000”, Bern, Peter Lang, 2010); 32 papers in scientific journals, and 14 book-reviews. His last book is entitled, "La Transición española a la democracia ayer y hoy: memoria cultural, historiografía y política". Madrid, Marcial Pons, 2919.
He had also published two manuals for the teaching of historiography (“La historia contemporánea. Aspectos teóricos e historiográficos”. Madrid, Síntesis, 2000; and “Historiografía, historia contemporánea e historia del presente”. Madrid, síntesis 2020, this in coordination with Roberto Ceamanos). The chapter 2 of the former has been used as mandatory reading from the academic years 2010-20 within the subject named “Teaching in the Network”, belonging to the Master in Contemporary History that the universities of Santiago, Valencia, País Vasco, Zaragoza, Cantabria, Autónoma of Madrid, and Complutense offer. During the year 2020-2021 this reading has been updated with one chapter from the second manual.
Between July 2018 and January 2019 the author was coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza. Between 2011 and 2020 he worked as a project evaluator for the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (15 reports). In 2011 he co-founded the biannual online journal “Historiografías, revista de historia y teoría” (https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/historiografias), from which is editor, that in 2021 and in 2022 has been recognized with the Seal of Quality from the “Fundación para la Ciencia y la Tecnología” (FECYT) (Spain). Since January 2016 he takes part of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (International Committee of Historical Sciences). He has also taken continuous part of projects, groups of research and other inquiry initiatives, all of them subjects to open call, from October 1991 until today, and conducted, as lead investigator, three projects of I+D+i (two of them of the National Plan funded by the Spanish State, the last one with 13 researchers in 2012-2014). He has also conducted three projects of innovation teaching at the University of Zaragoza (2014-2018). Until 2022 he has conducted five PhD and now he conducting three others. Número de sexenios de investigación: 5 (Fecha del último concedido: 2023).
Número de tesis doctorales dirigidas y defendidas en los últimos diez años: 6
Índice H: 11
núm. citas: 427
Scientific chapters
- The History of historiography. Retrospective analysis and research. Pasamar Alzuria, Gonzalo Vicente. HISTORY UNDER DEBATE. INTERNACIONAL REFLECTION ON THE DISCIPLINE. 2004
- La profesión de historiador en la España franquista. Pasamar Alzuria, Gonzalo Vicente. LECTURAS DE LA HISTORIA. NUEVE REFLEXIONES SOBRE LA HISTORIA DE LA HISTORIOGRAFÍA. 2001
PhD supervision
- Para leer a Hayden White, 1957-1973. Del humanismo liberal a la emergencia de la posmodernidad. Universidad de Zaragoza. Sobresaliente "Cum Laude". 25/02/15
- Un siglo de relaciones académicas internacionales de la historiografía española (1890-1990). Universidad de Zaragoza. Sobresaliente "Cum Laude". 05/12/14
- Los manuales escolares de historia en España en las últimas décadas y su contrapunto cubano. Universidad de Zaragoza. Sobresaliente "Cum Laude". 06/11/14
Participation in conferences
- 30th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Comparative Civilizations. Participativo - Ponencia invitada/ Keynote. The concept of paradigm and its importance in the History of Historiography. Newark. 30/05/01
UNIZAR teaching of the last six courses
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