Santiago Gorostiza

Santiago Gorostiza is an environmental historian working on modern and early modern Spanish history, with training as a historian, environmental scientist, and political ecologist. His research interests focus on the socioenvironmental disruptions caused by war and militarisation, and on how fascist and other authoritarian regimes mobilise nature politically in their discourses and practices. Santiago’s research has particularly examined water history during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Francoist dictatorship in Spain. 

Santiago studied both History and Environmental Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He carried out his PhD at the Centro de Estudos Sociais of Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal) as a Marie Curie ITN fellow. After his PhD, Santiago completed a two-year postdoctoral position at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), where he started combining environmental history with historical climatology. He was a visiting researcher at Manchester University, England (2014), Georgetown University in Washington DC (2016) and Lund University, Sweden (2019). Since 2019, he is the Spanish representative to the European Society of Environmental History (ESEH). 

At the Center for History at Sciences Po, Santiago is involved in the Shifting Shores project (Émergences/Ville de Paris Program), which examines the environmental history of morphological changes of deltaic coasts.