José María Maravall Explained

José María Maravall Herrero is a Spanish academic and a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Education

Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and Oxford University, as well as a Honorary D.Litt. from Warwick University.[1]

Career

Maravall was, until his retirement, the director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (CEACS -Juan March Institute in Madrid) and a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.[1] He has taught at the University of Warwick and, as a visiting professor, at the universities of New York (NYU), Columbia, Harvard, and the European University Institute (Florence).[1] He has had a long personal political experience, first in underground anti-Francoist politics and later, under democracy, in social democratic politics.[1] He was the Spanish Minister of Education and Science from 1982 to 1988, and was a member of the Spanish Parliament.[1] [2]

Awards and honors

Maravall is an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College (Oxford), a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] He is a "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" in France and has won the National Award for Political Science and Sociology in Spain.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Un sociólogo de Oxford con una biografía agitada . 16 April 2024 . EL PAÍS . 3 December 1982 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180124005746/https://elpais.com/diario/1982/12/03/espana/407718016_850215.html . 24 January 2018.
  2. Book: Maravall, José María . Boyd-Barrett . O. . O'Malley . P. . The pre-history of educational reform in Spain . Education Reform in Contemporary Spain . Taylor & Francis . 2002 . 978-1-134-87441-5 . https://books.google.com/books?id=WMWIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 . 2024-04-16 . 41.
  3. Web site: Professor José María Maravall FBA . The British Academy . 16 April 2024.