CAREER

Xabier Zabaltza Pérez-Nievas is Senior Lecturer in Late Modern and Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). His area of specialization is the history of collective identities and languages, as well as the representative institutions of the Old Regime, especially those of the territories of Basqueland, “a Gypso usque ad Cohortes et a Genistosa usque ad Hospitale Sancti Blasii”.

His academic work includes the books Mater Vasconia. Lenguas, fueros y discursos nacionales en los países vascos (2005), Una historia de las lenguas y los nacionalismos (2006 and 2010) and Euskal Herria, heterodoxiatik (2024), as well as articles in specialised journals, such as Historia Contemporánea, Historia y Política, Nations and Nationalism and Parliaments, Estates & Representation. In his Basque-language essay Gu, nafarrok (2007), which was published in Spanish as Nosotros, los navarros (2009), he explores critically opposing identities in Navarre. He is, moreover, the author of a biography in Basque of the most important of the precedents of Basque nationalism, the Souletin writer Augustin Chaho/Agosti Xaho (Aitzindari bakartia, 2011), which was also published in Spanish and French. With Iván Igartua he has written A Brief History of the Basque Language (2012, 2016 and 2021) in English, Spanish, Basque, and French.

Since he joined the Department of Late Modern and Contemporary History of the EHU, he has participated in several Research Groups and Projects, all of them led by Professors Agirreazkuenaga and Urquijo.