Department: Historia Contemporánea

Centre: Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y la Comunicación

Campus: Bizkaia

Field of knowledge: Artes y Humanidades

Area: Contemporary History

Research group: La experiencia de la sociedad moderna en España ss.XIX y XX - GIC 21/061

Was part of these groups:

Email: miren.llona@ehu.eus

Personal web: https://experienciamoderna.com/quienes-somos/miren-llona-2/

Doctor by the Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea with the thesis Las mujeres de las clases medias bilbaínas los cambios de la identidad femenina durante los años veinte y treinta a través de la historia oral 2000. Supervised by Dr. María Dolores Valverde Lamsfús, Dr. José Javier Díaz Freire.

PhD in Contemporary History from the University of the Basque Country since 2000, her thesis, on the construction of the identities of women of the middle classes in Bilbao during the 1920s and 1930s, based on oral sources, was awarded the Victoria Kent Research Prize by the University of Malaga in 2001. She works as a professor of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences of the University of the Basque Country and also teaches in the Master of Feminist and Gender Studies, in the Master of Contemporary History and in the Master of Equal Opportunities of the University of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on three areas of interest: oral history and the analysis of memory from a cultural perspective; gender history and the study of power relations between men and women; the construction of identities from a national, class and gender perspective in the Basque Country. In 2004 she was the founder of the AHOA Oral History Archive. From 2008 to 2012 she served on the board of the International Oral History Association (IOHA). She is also the president of the Maite Albiz Women's Documentation Center since 2004. Between 2020 and 2022 she has been the president of the Spanish Women's History Research Association (AEIHM).