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SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
AURORA G. MORCILLO, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Director Initiative for Spanish and Mediterranean Studies/SIPA
History Department
Florida International University
Tel (305) 348 37 68
E-mail: morcillo@fiu.edu
EDUCATION
 1995 Ph.D. History (Modern Spain & Italy and Gender) University of New Mexico
 1988 MA Contemporary History Universidad de Granada (Spain)
 1986 BA Geography and History Universidad de Granada (Spain)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
 2013- present Director Initiative Spain and Mediterranean Studies
 2011-present Professor of History
 2002-2011 Associate Professor History and Women’s Studies
 2008- Spring Interim Director Women’s Studies center
 2003-2008 Associate Director Women’s Studies center FIU
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
 The Seduction of Modern Spain. The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic.
(Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2010). pp. 338
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True Catholic Womanhood: Gender Ideology in Franco Spain (Dekalb: Northern Illinois
University Press, 2000) (reprint Edition 2008) pp. 224
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Memory and Cultural History of the Spanish Civil War: Realms of Oblivion. (Volume
Single Editor) (Leiden, Boston BRILL, 2014) pp. 571
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En cuerpo y Alma: Ser mujer en tiempos de Franco (Madrid, Siglo XXI, September
2015) pp. 450
Books in Progress
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Sources For The Cultural History Of Modern Spain From The Enlightenment To
The Present (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)
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Of All Things Visible and Invisible: Women’s Life Narratives in Franco’s Spain. (under
review)
Book Chapters
 “El género en lo imaginario. El «ideal católico femenino» y estereotipos sexuados bajo el
franquismo.” In Mary Nash ed. Represión Resistencias, Memoria: Las mujeres bajo la
dictadura franquista. (Granada: Comares Historia, 2013) pp 71-95
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“El feminismo en España 1900-1940” en Raquel Mesa (coord) 100 años en femenino,
Comisariada por Oliva María Rubio e Isabel Tejeda for Acción Cultural Española
(Madrid: AC/E, 2012)
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“The Orient Within. Spanish Women Self empowering Acts under Francoism” Fatima
Sadiqi ed. Women as Agents of Change in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge,
2011)
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“Tiempos Modernos. Feminismo y Lucha Política Durante La II República Y La Guerra
Civil” in Pilar Folguera comp. El Feminismo en España (Madrid: Fundación Pablo
Iglesias, 2007)
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“Notas para la historia del género” in Jaime Eduardo Jaramillo Jiménez (compilador)
Cultura, identidades y saberes fronterizos (Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
CES, 2005)
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"Shaping True Catholic Womanhood: Francoist Educational Discourse on Women"
inVictoria Enders and Pamela Radcliff eds., Constructing Spanish Womanhood. Female
Identity in Modern Spain (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999)
Articles
 “Españolas Con, Contra, Bajo, (D)El Franquismo (1940-1960)” in Desacuerdos 7 Sobre
arte, políticas y esfera pública en el Estado español. (Madrid, UNIA arteypensamiento,
2012) pp. 42-64
 “Sexo pensante, sexo cambiante. La educación media superior de las españolas en los
años cincuenta” Arenal. Revista de hitoria de las mujeres.vol 17. num.2 julio-deciembre
2010 University of Granada (Submitted March 2011 published September 2011) pp. 299318
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“Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro. Women Modern Docile Bodies” in Andrew McFarland and
Boria Majumdar eds. Journal Sport in Society, (Sport in Society, volume 11, issue 6,
November 2008, pp. 673 - 684.
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“Walls of Flesh. Spanish Post-War Reconstruction and Public Morality” in Bulletin of
Spanish Studies, Volume 84, Issue 6 September 2007, pages 737 – 758
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“Women in Portugal and Spain” Encyclopedia of Women in World History Bonnie Smith
ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Book Reviews
 Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground. Represion and Victimization in a Small
Andalusian Town by Richard Barker (Sussex Academic Press, 2012) Bulletin of Society
for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
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Ghosts of passion: Martyrdom, gender, and the origins of the Spanish Civil War by Brian
D. Bunk in Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire. 43, no. 1,
(2008): 156
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Memory and Amnesia of the Spanish Civil War. The Role of the Spanish Civil War in The
Transition to Democracy. by Paloma Aguilar (Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books,
2002) in Bulletin of Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, (spring 2006)
INVITED LECTURES
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“Of All Things Visible And Invisible: Reflections On The Practice Of Oral History
Through Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy” Invited Lecture to 20 Deutscher Hispanistentag
University of Heidelberg, Germany. March 18-22, 2015
“Susana Estrada a la Delacriox. The transition to democracy in Spain” NOISE Summer
school University of Utrech 2010 at University of Granada. August 27, 2010.
“Sexo Pensante, Sexo Cambiante: Las universitarias españolas bajo el Franquismo”
Universidad de Cantabria, March 25, 2010.
“Judy Chicago’s feminist art as a pedagogical tool” Miami Jewish Museum, November 5,
2009
“Cuerpos de Mujeres: Imaginarios, disputados, resistentes.” Universidad de Granada,
Spain June 29-30, 2009
“Imaginario de Género: estereotipos y discurso Franquista” Jornadas Mujeres Bajo la
dictadura Franquista, Fundación Pablo Iglesias, Madrid, December 2-3, 2008
“The Orient Within. Women’s Self-empowering Acts under Francoism” Chaired by
Professor Paul Preston, Cañada Blanch Centre, London School of Economics, December
10, 2008
CONFERENCE PAPERS
 "Of All Things Visible and Invisible: Spanish Women's Narratives during Francoism," in
MLA Convention Chicago January 12, 2014.
 “Spanish Projections in Modern Europe” Panel Commentator, 147th Annual American
Historical Association Conference, Washington DC, January 6, 2008
 “Strangers in the Dark Movie Theater” XIII Coloquio Internacional AEIHM Asociaciόn
Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres http://www.aeihm.org (Barcelona,
October 19-22 2006)
 “Body Politics and The transition to Democracy” paper presented at (European Social
Science History Conference) http://www.iisg.nl/esshc Amsterdam, March 2006
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“The Spanish Mystic Body Politic Under The Franco’s Regime” presented at The 4th
Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 11 -14, 2006