Ainhoa Campos Posada

Dr Ainhoa Campos Posada serves as the Ramon Areces Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford's European Studies Centre (2024-2025), specializing in the civilian experience of the Spanish Civil War and contemporary memory of Franco's dictatorship. Her research bridges historical analysis with modern reconciliation efforts in Spain.

Her educational background includes a PhD in History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2020), followed by research assistant roles on Spanish Civil War projects and the Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (2022).

Campos Posada's scholarly focus centers on social history during wartime and post-dictatorship memory recovery, particularly examining economic survival mechanisms in Madrid during the Civil War and forensic investigations of Franco-era mass graves. Her work critically engages with Spain's unresolved historical trauma through empirical analysis of civilian experiences.

Her 2023 publications reveal consistent thematic patterns: rigorous documentation of wartime Madrid's supply systems intersects with investigations into Castilla-La Mancha's mass graves, demonstrating how material conditions and physical evidence reconstruct silenced narratives of Francoism.

Key recognitions include:

• Ramon Areces Visiting Fellowship (2024-2025) supporting Oxford-based research
• Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022) enabling memory studies at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Her fellowship awards constitute significant research funding that advances Spanish historical scholarship through archival recovery and interdisciplinary methodologies. Current work at Oxford extends her investigation into how historical memory shapes contemporary Spanish identity, building on her foundational research into civilian war experiences and dictatorship legacies.