Alba Díaz Geada

Alba Díaz Geada is a historian affiliated with the Department of Contemporary and American History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a PhD in History and has received prestigious awards including the National Price for Excellence in Academic Performance and the Extraordinary Prize for Doctorate. Her research focuses on agrarian history, social movements, and rural change during the Franco regime and democratic transition in Galicia.

Education:

• Bachelor's in History (2008, USC)
• Master's in Contemporary History (2009, USC)

Research Interests: Specializes in rural social dynamics, labor syndicalism in late Francoism, and the political evolution of Galician rural society between dictatorship and democracy. Her work integrates gender perspectives and environmental sustainability in agricultural studies.

Awards: Recognized for her doctoral thesis on rural Galician socio-economic-cultural change (1959-1982), acknowledged in the Miguel Artola Prize.

Grants & Projects: Current involvement includes studies on rural women's roles in environmental crises, gendered perspectives in family farming, and 20th-century rural conflict analysis. She contributes to research networks like HISTAGRA (Agrarian History Group) and REVOLTA (Agroecology & History).

Labs/Teams: Active in the Consolidación y estructuración research groups focusing on agrarian history and rural politics.