Anna Catharina Hofmann (Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg) holds a doctorate in history. Hofmann’s doctoral thesis on developmentalism in the Franco dictatorship was published in 2019 and awarded the Hedwig Hintze Prize of the Association of German Historians (VHD). The Spanish translation was published in 2023. In addition to the second Francoism, her lines of research include the comparative history of dictatorships and the analysis of developmental policies in the twentieth century. In her new project, prof. Hofmann compares the evolution of three European development regimes from the 1920s to the 1970s, using Spain as a case study; France and Romania, with particular emphasis on political legitimation strategies and nation building processes.
Recent publications
- 2025: “Selling the Francoist Modernisation Abroad: Propaganda and Perception in the Western World during the 1960s”, European Review of History/Revue européenne d’histoire, 32: 209-230;
- 2025: “‘Los derechos fundamentales han pasado a la historia’. Ernst Forsthoff, Laureano López Rodó y el Estado administrativo autoritario en la modernidad industrial”, en Sebastián Martín, Federico Fernández-Crehuet y Alfons Aragoneses (eds.), Desarrollo de la dictadura, dictadura del desarrollo. El régimen franquista en su entorno internacional (1946-1969), Sevilla, Athenaica.
- 2024: “‘Un país en vías de desarrollo’. La propaganda franquista interior y exterior durante la década de 1960”, Historia del Presente, 43: 27-50;
- 2023: Una modernidad autoritaria. El desarrollismo en la España de Franco (1956-1973), València, PUV.