Queralt Sole Barjau
Professora agregada
Short biography
PhD in Contemporary History, from the University of Barcelona in 2008, with the thesis entitled: “Mass graves in Catalonia 1936-1939”, works as a professor of this subject at the same University. Specialist in violence during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime, especially in issues related to repression and exile, and memory, she is the top expert in Catalonia on mass graves and the disappeared from the Civil War. For this reason, she was responsible for the mass graves unit of the Democratic memorial of Catalonia, and he was also one of the 7 people from all over the State who were part of the Commission of Experts that was created by judge Baltasar Garzón to advise in these matters. Solé has taken part in several events on historical memory, including the one that took place in 2008, co-organized by the Museum of the History of Catalonia and the magazine Sàpiens, where she gave the conference De les fossas comunes de Catalunya al Valle de los Caídos.
Research interests
- Violence and repression during the civil war and the Franco dictatorship Historical
- Analysis of the vestiges of the civil war and the Franco dictatorship in the 21st century
Selected publications
Solé, Q. (2017). The valley of the fallen: a new El Escorial for Spain. Human Remains and Violence, an Interdisciplinary Journal, 3(1), pp. 3 – 21 . https://doi.org/10.7227/HRV.3.1.2 . ISSN: 2054-2240
Solé, Q.; López, X. (2019). El Valle de los Caídos como estrategia pétrea para la pervivencia del franquismo. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural, 13, pp. 299 – 317 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2340-1869
Solé, Q. (2019). Pervivencia de las fosas comunes de la guerra civil española en el siglo XXI. Evidencia cultural, particularidad académica. Historia Contemporánea, 60, pp. 439 – 475 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1130-2402
Díaz-Ramoneda, E.; Herrasti Erlogorri, L.; Solé, Q. (2021). Archaeological evidence of gender differences in violent repression: exhumations of women killed during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Dictatorship. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 7(2), pp. 209 – 226 . https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.41464 . ISSN: 2051-3429
Gallego-Vila, L.; Solé, Q. (2021). Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, Where Human Remains Disappear: A Funerary Monument for a Dictator. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 7(2), pp. 227 – 242 . https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.41462 . ISSN: 2051-3429
Selected projects
SUBTIERRO: Exhumaciones de fosas comunes y derechos humanos en perspectiva histórica, transnacional y comparada . 2016 – 2018 . Ref.CSO2015-66104-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Francisco Ferrandiz Martin
Co-Fundadora i membre de la Junta Directiva del ‘Centro Internacional de Estudios de Memoria y Derechos Humanos’ (CIEMED) . 2014 – 2019 . Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) . PI: Queralt Sole Barjau
Grup de Recerca Consolidat Centre d’Estudis Històrics Internacionals (GREC-CEHI) . 2017 – 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1425 . Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Andres Mayayo Artal
El Cinglo Alt: Arqueologia de la Guerra Civil al Front del Pallars . 2018 – 2021 . Ref.CLT009/18/00033 . Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya . PI: Queralt Sole Barjau; Joan Villarroya Font
Servicio de consultoría y asistencia técnica para la elaboración de un dossier informativo de determinadas víctimas de la guerra civil enterradas en el Valle de los Caidos como acción complementaria de su exhumación . 2020 – 2021 . Ref.305/20 . Ministerio de la Presidencia, Relaciones con las Cortes e Igualdad. . PI: Queralt Sole Barjau