Dr. Marta Garcia Cabrera
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Arbeitsbereich Neuere Geschichte, Prof. Dr. Oliver Janz
Gastwissenschaftlerin
14195 Berlin
From 2022 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
From 2021 Honorary Research Fellow, University of Kent (Canterbury, UK)
2017- 2021 PhD in Contemporary History – Atlantic Islands Programme – (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain). Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow, Canary Islands Government- Thesis on British propaganda in Spain during the First and the Second World War
2020 Visiting Researcher, Humboldt University (Berlin, DE)
2019 Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University (Washington D.C., USA)
2018 Visiting Researcher, King’s College University (London, UK)
2015-2016 MA in War, Media and Society (University of Kent, UK)
2013-2014 MA in Teaching Training for Secondary Education and Baccalaureate (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of La Laguna, Spain)
2009-2013 BA in History (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)
Current research project: An analysis of the foreign intelligence services in the Canary Islands and the Northwest Africa during the Second World War (1939-1945): The role of espionage and diplomacy of the United States, Germany, and Great Britain in the mid-Atlantic.
Other fields of interest: propaganda, foreign policy, and Spanish neutrality during the First and the Second World War
Publikationen
«El control de la opinión pública canaria durante la Gran Guerra (1914-1918): Propaganda y diplomacia extranjera», Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia (2022)
«British geographic intelligence during the Second World War: A case study of the Canary Islands», Intelligence and National Security (2021)
«La información y la propaganda como instrumentos preparatorios de las operaciones militares británicas en Canarias (1941-1943)», XXIV Coloquio de Historia Canario-Americana, (2021)
«Operation Warden: British sabotage planning in the Canary Islands during the Second World War», Intelligence and National Security (2020
«The semiotics of British print propaganda in Spain during the Second World War», in War and Semiotics (Routledge, 2020)
«International propaganda in Spain during the First World War: state of the art and new contributions», in Communication in the First World War (Routledge, 2020)
«Organización y contenidos de la propaganda de guerra británica en Canarias durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial», Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia (2019)
«De la neutralidad oficial a la no beligerancia española en la II Guerra Mundial: análisis a través de la prensa canaria», Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos (2018).