Gerard Rosich Pagès

Gerard Rosich works as a scientific coordinator for the BADEMS project. As a collaborator, Rosich will support the PI in coordinating the project’s interdisciplinary team, ensuring that individual sub-projects align with the overarching theoretical framework. His role includes synthesising findings, providing methodological oversight, and framing outputs within a unified narrative.

He is a historical sociologist with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. He previously worked as a predoctoral researcher at the ERC-AdG research project Trajectories of Modernity, led by Peter Wagner and hosted by the University of Barcelona (2010–2015). He later held a postdoctoral research position at the Department of World Cultures of the University of Helsinki, as part of the HERA Research Project The Debt: Historicizing Europe’s Relations with the ‘South’. Rosich’s research spans conceptual and intellectual history, social and political theory, and historical sociology. His current work focuses on the origins of early modern global imperialism and its connections to histories of racialisation, with particular attention to Europe’s ambivalent role in modern history.

He has published extensively on the theory and history of modernity, human autonomy, the use of historical narratives to address past injustices, and the methodological and normative challenges inherent to historical reconstructions. Among his many publications, Rosich has authored two monographs: Autonomy: The Contested History of a European Legacy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and Independència i Autonomia: Una teoria històrica de la modernitat (Editorial Afers, 2017).