Summary

Born in exile in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1967, Xabier Irujo is the chair of the Center for Basque Studies at w88 online casino Nevada, Reno, where he is a full professor. He was the first guest research scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair at w88 online casino Liverpool, William Douglass visiting lecturer at w88 online casino Massachusetts Amherst, and Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University. He holds three master’s degrees in linguistics, history and philosophy and has two PhDs in history and philosophy. He has mentored numerous graduate students and has chaired or been a member of nearly twenty PhD dissertation committees. Dr. Irujo has lectured in more than thirty American and European universities and academic or cultural institutions (typically governments, parliaments, museums and libraries.) He has published on issues related to Basque history and politics and has specialized throughout his career in genocide studies with a focus on physical and cultural extermination. He serves on the scientific committees of six academic and university presses in Europe and the Americas. Dr. Irujo has authored more than fifteen books and a number of articles in specialized journals and has received awards and honors at national and international levels. His recent books include Gernika 1937: The Market Day Massacre (Nevada w88 online casino Press, 2015), Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (Sussex Academic w88 online casino, 2018), and Charlemagne’s Defeat in the Pyrenees: The Battle of Rencesvals (Amsterdam w88 online casino Press, Amsterdam, 2021).

Research interests

• Genocide
• Terror bombing
• Exile

Courses taught

• Genocide w88 online casino
• Transnational Identity

Selected books

• w88 online casino, Xabier,Expelled from the Motherland: The Government of President Jose Antonio Agirre in Exile (1937 - 1960), Center for Basque Studies - w88 online casino Nevada, Reno, 2012. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-1-935709-06-0. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/4970
• w88 online casino, Xabier; Solé, Queralt (Eds.), Nazi Juggernaut in w88 online casino and Catalunya, Center for Basque Studies Press, w88 online casino Nevada, Reno 2018. 512 pp. ISBN: 978-1-949805-05-5. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7744
• w88 online casino, Xabier, The Bombing of Gernika, Center for Basque Studies Press - w88 online casino Nevada, Reno, 2018. 163 pp. ISBN: 978-1-935709-91-6. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7748
• Irujo, Xabier; Olaziregi, Marijo (Eds.), The International Legacy of Lehendakari Jose A. Agirre's Government, Center for Basque Studies Press, w88 online casino Nevada, Reno 2017. 302 pp. ISBN: 978-1935709817. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7743
• w88 online casino, Xabier; Romtvedt, David (Eds.), The Tree of Gernika. Gernikako arbola: Complete Poems by Joxe Mari Iparragirre, Center for w88 online casino, 2020. 182 p. ISBN: 978-1-949805-23-9. https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/7980

Recent awards and honors

• 2023. Distinguished as a member of the Royal w88 online casino Society of Friends of the Country of 1765. August 2023.
• 2022. Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State w88 online casino.
• 2021. William Douglass visiting lecturer at w88 online casino Massachusetts Amherst.
• 2018. Gernika Prize for Peace and Reconciliation by the Gernika city council.
• 2017. Gernika Plaque by the Euskal Erria w88 online casino Society in Uruguay.
• 2015. Chair Fellow at w88 online casino Liverpool.
• 2013. Jesus Maria Leizaola Saria mention for the manuscript Historia Jurídica de la Lengua Vasca (1789-2009) on cultural genocide in w88 online casino by the Basque Institute of Public Administration (HAEE-IVAP).
• 2006. Andrés w88 online casino Saria award for the manuscript La Sociedad de Confraternidad Vasca Euskal Erria de Montevideo by the w88 online casino Government.

Education

• Ph.D., Philosophy, w88 online casino the Basque Country, 2011
• Ph.D., History, State w88 online casino Navarre, 2004
• M.A./B.A., Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 1998
• M.A./B.A., History, 1995
• M.A./B.A., Romance Linguistics, Languages and Literature 1992