Virginia López de Maturana (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1981). PhD in Contemporary History (UPV/EHU). Associate Professor of the Department of Contemporary History (UPV/EHU).
I am a specialist in the history of the Basque Country in the 20th century. I am the author of La reinvención de una ciudad. Poder y política simbólica en Vitoria durante el franquismo, 1936-1975 (Bilbao, UPV/EHU, 2014). I have co-published numerous works including Diccionario ilustrado de símbolos del nacionalismo vasco (Madrid, Tecnos, 2012), La Diócesis de Vitoria. 150 años de historia (Vitoria-Gasteiz, ESET/Diocese of Vitoria, 2013), Álava insólita. Símbolos, mitos y lugares de memoria (Bilbao/Vitoria-Gasteiz, Ediciones Beta/Sancho el Sabio, 2018), Testigo de cargo. La historia de ETA y sus víctimas en la televisión (Bilbao, Ediciones Beta, 2019) and El laberinto de la representación. Partidos y culturas políticas en el País Vasco y Navarra, 1875-2020 (Madrid, Tecnos, 2021). I was a visiting scholar at Oxford Brookes University (UK).
I have participated in a great number of transfer activities, such as exhibitions organized by various institutions. Commissioned by the Basque Parliament, I made the Catalog of Symbols and Monuments that Involve an Exaltation of the Civil War and the Dictatorship in the Basque Country (2011), together with the historian Aitor González de Langarica. Along the same lines, and commissioned by the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council, I prepared the Technical Report on the Vestiges of the Civil War and the Dictatorship in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2017). For this same institution, and together with the historian Isabel Mellén, I produced Project for the Reduction of the Gender Gap in the Street Map of Vitoria-Gasteiz (2022). I was part of the Basque Government commission that has elaborated the document BegiradaK. Shared Bases for the Social Construction of Memory in the Basque Country (2022).