José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés (born on 1961 in

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) is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

. He is an expert in Spanish constitutional history.

Biography

Valdés was born in 1961. He earned a PhD in History from the

(UPV/EHU), reading a dissertation in 1990 titled ''Monarquía y Gobierno Provincial. Poder y Constitución en las provincias exentas, 1760-1808'' and supervised by . On 13 February 1998, he was one of the founders of the

Foro Ermua The ''Foro Ermua'' ( en, Ermua Forum) was a Spanish civic association, the membership of which was composed of Spanish citizens (most of them living in the Basque Country). It was founded on 13 January 1998; its last president was Mikel Buesa. T ...

. A lecturer at the UPV/EHU since 1988, he was subject to harassment and threats coming from

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

, as well as an attempted attack at the Vitoria Campus where he worked, wherein an incendiary artifact was put in his car in October 1999. He was appointed Chair in Contemporary History at the UPV/EHU in 2017.

Works

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Decorations

* Medal of the Order of the Constitutional Merit (2003):

References

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