CAREER

Ikerbasque research professor in the Department of Contemporary History of the UPV/EHU since 2009.

Degree in linguistic anthropology and literature from the Sapienza University of Rome (1984). Following stays as a pre-doctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona (1983) he received a PhD in Sociology and European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (1994).

He made stays as a post-doctoral researcher or Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (1994-1995), later working as an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University (1995-1996), and as an Associate Professor at the Central European University of Budapest (1997-99). From the year 200 he has worked as a Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University, London Metropolitan University and the London School of Economics, where, together with his teaching activities in undergraduate studies, he has taught on several post-graduate courses.

Since the year 2009 he has worked in the Department of Contemporary History of the UPV/EHU, where he has also taught on the Master de Nacionalismo en el siglo XXI of the Department of Political Sciences (2009-2016). He has also participated in educational courses and seminars at the UNED (2015), the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (2016), and was a Visiting Professor at the Sapienza University of Rome (2018). He has directed two international doctoral theses and is currently directing another two, one of which is an international thesis.

He develops his research activity in the consolidated research group “Biography & Parliament”, specialising in the research line of the analysis of ideas, specifically the analysis of historical processes of cultural homogenisation, neoliberal globalisation and the political-cultural consequences of climate change.

He has participated as a researcher in several research projects and contracts. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications, including articles in high impact international journals, books, book chapters, entries in encyclopaedias, blogs, op-eds and other academic articles, the majority of them in English.

He is also active in the publishing field as a member of several editorial committees and scientific councils.

He has been a member of the editorial council of the journal Historia contemporánea since 2012, as well as of several high impact international journals. He is also a reviewer for journals and has reviewed over 100 academic articles.

In the management field he has been a member of the Department’s doctoral program (2014-2018).

He is a member or honorary member of several international associations, and a member of steering committees, including Research Committee 56 in the ISA since 2016.