ORCID: 0000-0002-9880-743X 

Rafael García Ferreira (Santiago de Compostela, 1990), holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Santiago de Compostela with the thesis "Violence, persecutions and narrative in the shaping of the power of the coup in Santiago de Compostela, 1936", graded Cum laude.

During his pre-doctoral stage he was a contract researcher on the projects "Processes of construction and destruction of citizenship. Xenocidal practice, memory and transitional justice in comparative perspective", and "Transnational and multidisciplinary networking on the memorial public policies promoted by the European Observatory on Memories". He was part of the HISTAGRA Research Group (Agrarian History and Politics of the Rural World. 19th and 20th Centuries), with which he still collaborates, and also participated in other research projects funded by competitive calls. He was also part of the research team for different R&D contracts with public bodies, in which he carried out research tasks in his field and the preparation of the final results reports. In 2021 he was in charge of the research and documentation tasks within the Four-Year Democratic Memory Plan for Galicia, launched by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory and the Xunta de Galicia. In 2022 and 2023 he developed his own project as principal investigator, funded by the Diputación de A Coruña.

His research and publications focused on the Second Republic and the coup d'état of July 1936, as well as the different processes and consequences associated with it. He paid attention not only to the study of the victims and perpetrators of the violence generated after the uprising, but also to other issues such as the different spaces used for this violence and the summary military trials, on which he analysed their characteristics, language, implications and responsibilities. He worked on the issue of the spatiality of violence for the documentation prior to the archaeological intervention of different Galician graves, taking into account their location, characteristics and possibilities for study and intervention. His participation in R&D contracts with administrations and associations was fundamentally related to the field of memory; in this respect, his most recent contributions are directly related to the Law of Democratic Memory of 2022, with its necessary compliance and action.He has also participated in different national and international congresses and seminars, as well as in dissemination and knowledge transfer activities through documentation, organisation and dissemination in different exhibitions organised by the HISTAGRA group. He is currently developing his research at the Inter-University Research Centre for Cultural Atlantic Landscapes (CISPAC).