Marije Hristova

Marije Hristova is a postdoctoral researcher in a EU-funded Horizon 2020 research project called Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe (UNREST) at the Spanish National Research Council, and a research fellow in the project The Underground Past led by Francisco Ferrándiz. She is also a founding member of the Spanish association Memorias en Red, which organises debates, exhibitions and events related to the topic of remembrance. Hristova holds a MA in history from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and a MA in Spanish Literature from the University of Amsterdam. She was a Marie Curie predoctoral fellow at the Spanish National Research Council. Besides, she has collaborated with the Spanish Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, which excavates and identifies the bodies of victims of the Spanish Civil War.

In her PhD dissertation, entitled Reimagining Spain: Transnational Entanglements and Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War since 1989, she analyses the influence of transnational frameworks on the reconfiguration of the memory narratives of the Spanish Civil War. In this work she examines, among others, the influence of Spanish mass grave exhumations on the reconfiguration of Spanish national identity.