José Antonio Marín Paredes

José Antonio Marín Paredes is a current Senior Lecturer at the University of Deusto with a career entirely rooted in its Donostia campus. His extensive administrative history includes serving as Secretary of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (1994-2000), Director of the Environmental Resources Management postgraduate programme (2000-2001), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts (2002-2003), Director of the Department of Culture Sciences and PhD programmes (2003-2009), and Vice-Dean of Academic Organization/Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (2009-2012).

His educational credentials from the University of Deusto are:

• PhD in Philosophy and Arts (History)
• Diploma in University Teaching
• BA in Geography and History

Research centers on historical analysis of Basque society during medieval and modern eras, examining kinship ties as foundational to community-based power structures and their transition to corporate/territorial systems. His work also investigates identity formation, memory frameworks, and cultural transmission mechanisms through societal bonds.

Concurrently, he engages in educational innovation focusing on competence-based learning methodologies in social sciences and ICT integration for knowledge technologies, emphasizing discourse-action relationships across historical and contemporary contexts.

From 2007 to 2013, he contributed to the Basque Government-recognized Innova research team (R2010, Category A).

Office hours are held Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 16:00-18:00 in Room D.215 of the P. Arrupe building at the Donostia campus, with an anomalous Thursday slot listed as 16:00-16:00.