Colls Comas, Josep

Josep Colls Comas is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of Girona. His academic work focuses on the intersection of economic history, rural societies, and historical geography, with particular emphasis on pre-modern agricultural and manufacturing systems in Catalonia.

• Specializes in economic history of Spain
• Researches historical transformation processes in rural Catalonia
• Part of the Research Group on the History of Rural Societies

Research Highlights

• Studied agricultural expansion and environmental changes in Empordà (16th-17th centuries)
• Analyzed decline of village manufacturing in modern northeastern Catalonia
• Investigated farm contract evolution in pre-industrial Catalonia
• Recently explored history of secondary education in 19th-century Catalonia