Olivia Muñoz-Rojas Oscarsson

Olivia Muñoz-Rojas Oscarsson is a sociologist and essayist specialising in culture, politics and society from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a particular interest in the aesthetic dimensions of political processes and contemporary collective imaginaries. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a master’s degree in Humanities from New York University, and a degree in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also studied at Uppsala and Lund universities in Sweden.

A regular contributor to El País and Proceso, she has also written for publications including The Huffington Post and Clarín. Her academic work has appeared in international journals, and she is the author of Ashes and Granite: Destruction and Reconstruction During and After the Spanish Civil War (Sussex Academic Press, 2011).

Of Spanish and Swedish heritage, she has lived in Mexico City and New Delhi and is currently based in Paris.