nireEHU MERCEDES MARIA ARBAIZA VILALLONGA
- Knowledge area
- Contemporary History
- Department
- Contemporary History
- Centre
- Faculty of Labour Relations and Social Work
- Electronic mail
- mercedes.arbaiza@ehu.eus
Mercedes Arbaiza (Bilbao, 1963) is a historian who earned her PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1994. She then gained pre-doctoral experience at the Department of Economics and Business of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) (1995-1996).
Arbaiza has been a tenured professor at the Department of Contemporary History of the UPV/EHU since February 1997, where she co-ordinates the module ‘Social History and Industrial Relations’ of the Industrial Relations Bachelor’s degree programme at the Faculty of Industrial Relations and Social Work. She also lectures on subjects relating to the construction of modern societies from a gender perspective in different Master’s degree programmes of the UPV/EHU:
Interuniversity MA in Contemporary History, ‘The Contribution of Gender to Social Construction’ (together with Miren Llona).MA in Feminist and Gender Studies, ‘Feminism, Subject and Modernity’. MA in Human Resource and Employment Management, ‘Gender Politics and Employment’.
Since 2013, Arbaiza has focused her attention on the study of emotions in the shaping of political subjects and social antagonism—namely. The emotions as an object of study are interesting from a historiographical point of view when understood as agents of protest and political tension, as well as a decisive driving force.