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Arnau Fernández Pasalodos
Postdoctoral Researcher
Centre for History (CHSP)
Research Interest(s): War Studies; Perpetrator Studies; Counterinsurgency; Spanish Civil War; Fascism; Second World War
Discipline(s): History
Biography
Arnau Fernández Pasalodos (Barcelona, 1995) holds a PhD in Contemporary History and is a researcher at the Centre for History at Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on the sociocultural history of European civil wars and the construction and consolidation of the Franco dictatorship. He is the author of Hasta su total exterminio. La guerra antipartisana en España, 1936–1952 (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024) and ¿Mató tu bisabuelo al mío? Cómo el trauma de la Guerra Civil y del franquismo ha atravesado cuatro generaciones (Crítica, 2026).
He has held research and teaching positions at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University College Dublin, and the University of Granada. At University College Dublin, he was a researcher on the ERC-funded project The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914–1949, led by Robert Gerwarth. He is currently a researcher on the ERC-funded Global War on Civilians project, led by Sheldon Garon at Sciences Po.
In 2021, he received the Mary Nash Award from the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, and in 2025, the Young Researchers Award from the Ateneo de Granada–Fundación Unicaja.
Current Research
Arnau Fernández Pasalodos' current research focuses on violence against civilians, aerial warfare, irregular warfare, and counterinsurgency in twentieth-century Europe, with particular emphasis on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship.
At Sciences Po, he is currently investigating the bombing of civilian populations during the Spanish Civil War as part of a broader comparative and transnational history of aerial warfare and violence against civilians.
More broadly, Arnau Fernández Pasalodos' research explores the social and cultural dimensions of civil wars and their aftermaths, including anti-partisan warfare, state violence, civilian experiences of war, and the long-term legacies of political violence.
AWARDS
2025 - Young Researchers Award from the Ateneo de Granada–Fundación Unicaja.
2021 - Mary Nash Award from the Asociación de Historia Contemporánea.