Xabier Irujo

Xabier Irujo is the director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a professor of genocide studies. He was the first Guest Research Scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, William Douglass visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University. With BA and MA degrees in philology, history, and philosophy, he holds two doctorates in history and philosophy. He...See more

Xabier Irujo is the director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is a professor of genocide studies. He was the first Guest Research Scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, William Douglass visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University. With BA and MA degrees in philology, history, and philosophy, he holds two doctorates in history and philosophy. He has directed numerous doctoral theses and is part of the scientific committees of five academic and university publishers. He is the author of more than twenty books and a number of articles in specialized journals and has received awards and distinctions at the national and international levels, including the Gernika Prize for Peace and Solidarity in 2019. He has dedicated the last two decades to studying the bombing of Gernika and has collaborated with the Gernika Documentation Center in searching for archival material about the bombing. As a result of these investigations are his trilogies on the bombing of Gernika and the political exile. Among his latest books, we highlight the trilogy on the bombing of Gernika: Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (Sussex Academic Press, 2019), The Bombing of Gernika (Center for Basque Studies Press - University of Nevada, Reno, 2018), Gernika: April 26, 1937 (Crítica, Barcelona, 2017) and Legal History of the Basque Language (HAEE, Bilbao, 2015). See less