Antonio Míguez Macho is a Full Professor in the Department of History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Dean of the Faculty of Geography and History. He is a member of the research group: Historia Agraria Política do Mundo Rural (HISTAGRA).

His lines of research include the study of the history of social movements and the processes of construction of citizenship, memory and the traumatic past, with particular attention to the forms adopted by violence against the civilian population, social attitudes against violence and the processes of memorial transmission of the past in comparative perspective.

He is currently taking part in the project “Definición, cartografiado y propuesta de intervención sobre los lugares de memoria del Golpe de 1936, la Dictadura franquista y la Resistencia (Galicia, 1936‐1952)”, Secretaría de Estado de Memoria Democrática (2022)

Among his publications, the following stand out:

• Antonio Míguez Macho, “Spain 1936-1945: Coup d’État and Genocidal Practices in the Destruction of ‘Anti-Spain’”, Cambridge World History of Genocide, vol. III “Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914‐2020, Ben Kiernan, ed. (New York, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022);
• Antonio Míguez Macho, “The Last Crusade: Holy War and Genocidal Practices in the Case of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)”, Routledge Handbook on Religion and Genocide, Sara E. Brown e Stephen Smith, ed. (London: Routledge, 2021);
• Antonio Míguez Macho (ed.), Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain. From the Spanish Civil War to the Present Day (London: Bloomsbury, 2021);
• “Un pasado negado. Lugares de violencia y lugares de memoria del golpe, la guerra civil y el franquismo”, Confluenze. Revista di Studi Iberoamericani, 10(2), 2018, 127-151. Editorial: Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne, Università di Bologna. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/8885. País de Publicación: Italia. ISSN: 2036-0967; ou
• Antonio Míguez Macho, The Genocidal Genealogy of Francoism: violence, memory and impunity (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2016).