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IKER SAITUA IDARRAGA

Knowledge area
Economic History and Institutions
Department
Centre
Faculty of Economics and Business
Electronic mail
iker.saitua@ehu.eus

Iker Saitua is a Basque Government Postdoctoral Fellow in History at University of California, Riverside. Saitua received his PhD from University of Nevada, Reno in 2016, with a dissertation on the Basque immigrant labor in the sheep industry of the Great Basin. Thereafter, he presented his dissertation at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), getting a second Ph.D. that received summa cum laude honors in History. Before joining UCR, Saitua taught at UPV/EHU. His work has focused largely on the intersections between agricultural labor, natural resources, and livestock raising in the American West. Saitua’s first book, Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954 (University of Nevada Press, 2019), offers a critical examination of the history of Basque sheepherders in the West. On the other hand, he works on another intellectual project that explores the historic and didactic value of cartoons and comic books developed during the Spanish Civil War. Also, he engages these images for studying the didactic value of graphic novels for teaching history and social sciences.

His research is published in Historia Agraria, Historia Social, and Historia Contemporánea. He has presented papers in 30 conferences nationally and internationally.