About our staff
Dr Julius Ruiz
BA(Hons), MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS
Senior Lecturer; International Director
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3760
- Email: J.Ruiz@ed.ac.uk
- Room 1.27, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Office hours
Biography
A graduate of Swansea University, I carried out my doctoral research at Wolfson College, Oxford under the supervision of Dr Frances Lannon. I arrived in Edinburgh in 2003 after holding a Post Doctoral Fellowship at King's College London.
Summary of research interests
Places:- Latin America
- Culture
- Diplomatic History
- Politics
- War
- Twentieth Century & After
Research interests
My current research interests lie in twentieth-century Spain, especially the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime. At present I am completing a book on the repression in Republican Madrid between 1936-39. I am also interestedin twentieth-century Cuba, especially the Spanish community in Cuba after 1898.
Undergraduate teaching
- The People's Game. A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939
- Restoration Spain 1875-1923 (3/4 Hons)
- The Spanish Civil War (4MA)
Postgraduate teaching
- The Closest of Enemies: US-Cuban Relations 1898-2014
Current Students:
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic | Supervision type | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kokosalakis, Yiannis | PhD | A social history of the Soviet Communist Party 1928-1941 | Secondary | |
| Raeburn, Fraser | MScR | Scottish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War | Primary | link |
| PhD | El Legardo de Recuerdo; The importance of personal, collective and official remembrance in Spain in the post-Franco era. | Primary |
Books - Authored
Ruiz, J. (2016) 'Paracuellos': The Elimination of the ‘Fifth Column’ in Republican Madrid During the Spanish Civil War. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press
Ruiz, J. (2015) Paracuellos. Una Verdad Incomoda. S.L.U. Espasa Libros
Ruiz, J. (2015) The 'Red Terror' and the Spanish Civil War: Revolutionary Violence in Madrid. New York: Mac Keith Press, Cambridge Univ Press
Ruiz, J. (2012) La justicia d Franco: la represión en Madrid tras la Guerra Civil. Barcelona: RBA Libros
Ruiz, J. (2012) El terror rojo. Spain: Espasa Libros
Articles
Ruiz, J. (2015) Carrillo fue el 'facilitador' de Paracuellos. El Mundo
Ruiz, J. (2011) Las metanacciones del exterminio. Revista del Libros
Ruiz, J. (2011) Fighting the International Conspiracy: The Francoist Persecution of Freemasonry, 1936–1945. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 12(2), pp. 179-196DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2011.591981
Ruiz, J. (2010) ‘¿El genocidio español? Reflexiones sobre el auto de Garzón’. Noticiero de las ideas, 37
Ruiz, J. (2009) Work and don't lose hope': Republican Forced Labour Camps during the Spanish Civil War. Contemporary European History, 18 (4), pp. 419-442DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777309990087
Ruiz, J. (2009) Incontrolables' en la zona republicana durante la guerra civil: el caso de Luis Bonilla Echevarria. Historia y Política, 21, pp. 191-218
Ruiz, J. (2009) Seventy Years On: Historians and Repression during and after the Spanish Civil War. Journal of Contemporary History, 44 (3), pp. 449-472DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009409104118
Ruiz, J. (2007) Defending the Republic: The Garcia Atadell Brigade in Madrid, 1936. Journal of Contemporary History, 42 (1), pp. 97 - 115DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009407071625
Ruiz, J. (2005) A Spanish genocide? Reflections on the post-war Francoist repression. Contemporary European History, 14(2), pp. 171-191DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777305002304
Chapters
Ruiz, J. (2018) Fighting the fifth column: The terror in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. In: Barros, A. and Thomas, M. (eds.) The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil–Military Divide, 1914–2014. Cambridge; New York; Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, pp. 47-63DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108643542
Ruiz, J. (2017) El Comité Provincial de Investigación Pública: Los crímenes de la checa de Fomento a través del testimonio policial. In: Moreno Cantano, A. (ed.) Checas: Miedo y odio en la España de la guerra civil. TREA, pp. 39-59
Ruiz, J. (2016) Дожное обвинение: Советский Союэ и эверства реслубдиканцев в Паракуэдвос. In: Русский сборник: Исследования по истории России. Том XX: СССР и Гражданская война в Испании 1936-1939. Moscow: Модест Колеров, pp. 315-351
Ruiz, J. (2012) Vino nuevo en odres viejos: La historiografía de la represión en España durante y después de la guerra civil. In: del Rey Reguillo , F. and Álvarez Tardío, M. (eds.) El laberinto republicano: La democracia española y sus enemigos (1931-1936). Barcelona: RBA Libros, pp. 186-201
Ruiz, J. (2011) Incontrolables en Madrid durante la Guerra Civil: Las vidas paralelas de Agapito García Atadell y Luis Bonilla Echevarría. In: Bullón de Mendoza , A. and Togores, L. (eds.) La otra memoria. San Sebastián de los Reyes – Madrid: Editorial Actas, S.L., pp. 198-204
Ruiz, J. (2011) Old Wine in New Bottles: The Historiography of Repression in Spain During and After the Spanish Civil War’. In: Tardío, F. (ed.) The Spanish Second Republic Revisited. From Democratic Hopes to Civil War (1931-1936). Sussex Academic Press
Ruiz, J. (2004) Was the Spanish Civil War inevitable?. In: K W Estes, D. (ed.) History in Dispute, Vol 18: The Spanish Civil War. Detroit: St. James Press, pp. 103-108
Ruiz, J. (2003) La Justicia Militar en Madrid 1939-1945. ¿Justicia exterminadora?. In: Isidro, J. (ed.) España en guerra. Protagonistas para un conflicto. Dykinson S.L., pp. 87-111