Dr Matthew Kerry is a Fellow at Jesus College and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History. He is a social historian of modern Spain, covering the 'long' twentieth century from c.1890 to the present and with a particular focus on the meaning and practice of politics in everyday life. He joined Oxford in 2023 after three years at the University of Stirling. He has held research fellowships at York University, the University of Granada and the Institute for Social Movements (Bochum) funded by organisations including the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the DAAD. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield.
His previous research centred on the Spanish Second Republic, specifically the revolutionary insurrection in the coal-mining areas of Asturias in October 1934, and has since broadened his scope to the emergence of mass politics in the preceding decades, as well as popular culture and protest post-1975.
