Jonathan Sherry, PhD
Historian | Author | Senior Editor, Eagle Intelligence Reports​

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I was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. I studied history and music at Eastern Kentucky University after quitting pilot school for lack of funds. At EKU, I had the pleasure of working with the wonderful mentors Jennifer Spock, the late Bruce MacLaren, and the late Robert "Bob" Topmiller. 

 

On graduating in 2009, I sold my car to buy a plane ticket to Europe to take a research internship position in Austria at the Jewish Museum of Vienna. There I worked on an exhibition on the Austrian Marxist composer, Hans Eisler, and his exile in civil war Spain and later the United States and East Germany. In Spain, Eisler composed fight songs such as ¡No Pasarán! and El Quinto Regimiento to inspire the war-weary antifascist troops of Republican Spain.

 

I began graduate study in European and Russian history in 2009 at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on Spanish and Soviet history and working under William Chase, Jonathan Harris, and others. I took an MA (2011) and PhD (2017), studying Spanish, German, and Russian language along the way and doing extensive archival research abroad in various countries.
 

Much of my research has been conducted in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, near old Vegueta, the neighborhood in which Juan Negrín was born. Negrín was Prime Minister of Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War. In 2013, his archive was transferred from the Negrín family apartment in Paris to the Fundación Juan Negrín in Las Palmas, where I spent two years researching in the collection.

I continued research and writing in Barcelona for 2015-2016.  As Fulbright Researcher, I worked with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's research team, Grupo de Estudios sobre República y Democracia. In 2016, I took a position as Visiting Researcher at the London School of Economics Cañada Blanche Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, working with Paul Preston for 2016-2017.
 

After defending my dissertation in 2017, I taught European and Spanish History at the University of Miami before moving to Penn State University - Erie to teach Russian and European History. I then worked as Assistant Professor at Averett University, where I taught courses on Europe, Spain, Russia, and the history of communism from 2019 to 2024.

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In 2026, I took a job as Senior Editor at Eagle Intelligence Reports, where I am also a contributing writer. Eagle Intel is a geopolitical and foreign policy analysis media platform that is committed to producing analytical and strategic reports free of overt bias, media oversimplification, and political noise. We are based in Bucharest, Romania, where I live with my family.

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Over the years, I've also completed several long-distance thru-hikes. I've thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail (2200 mi) northbound from Georgia to Maine, the Continental Divide Trail (2500 mi) northbound from Mexico to Montana, the Camino del Norte (575 mi) in Spain, the Camino Primitivo (500 mi) in Spain, and the GR-11 (550 mi) through the Pyrenees of Spain, Andorra, France.

 

In addition to history and geopolitics, I also write creative non-fiction and thru-hiking logs. As a musician, I play guitar and piano (less so banjo and ukulele), and I write and record my own music.

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I recently published Stalinism on Trial: Communism and Republican Justice in the Spanish Civil War at Liverpool University Press.

Buy it here: https://bit.ly/StalinismOnTrial

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Jonathan