Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa (born 1945 in

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) is a Spanish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

.''The Independent''
/ref> He specialises in contemporary history, the Basque Country''City Journal''
/ref> and nationalisms.

Studies

Fusi has a degree in History from

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and has a Ph.D (History) from the same university. Likewise, he has a Ph.D from

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and is a Doctor ''Honoris Causa'' in Humanities from

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.Official Website of Spain's Royal Family
/ref>

Teaching

Fusi, currently Professor of History at

, where he has held the Chair of Contemporary History since 1988, has devoted a large part of his career teaching at universities in Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has been a lecturer at Colegio Universitario San Pablo-CEU and professor at universities in Murcia, Cantabria and the Basque Country. As well as having taught at the universities of California, Wisconsin and

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, his main activity after studying under

Raymond Carr Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr (11 April 1919 – 19 April 2015) was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. Early life Carr was ...

was as Director of the Centre for Iberian Studies at

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(1976–1980).

Appointments

Between 1986 and 1990, Fusi was the Director of the

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, and is still a member of its board of trustees. He has been the Academic Director at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset and at the Fundación José Ortega y Gasset (2001–2006),''TIME Europe''
/ref> where he is still a trustee and Emeritus Fellow. Fusi was elected to ''medalla nº 15'' of the

Real Academia de la Historia The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ...

on 21 November 2014.

Committee of Experts

Fusi was a member of the ad hoc committee of experts set up to advise the Spanish government regarding the return of the polemical "

Salamanca Papers The Salamanca Papers (Spanish: ''Papeles de Salamanca''; Catalan: ''Papers de Salamanca'') refer to the 300,000 documents and 1,000 photographs confiscated from the Catalan government after the Spanish Civil War. The papers were transported in 12 ...

" to the autonomous government of Catalonia. Comprising, among others,

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and

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Professor of History

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, the committee declared in 2004, by a majority of 14 of its 17 members, that it was "just and legitimate" that the documents be returned to the autonomous government."El Comité de Expertos considera 'justo y legítimo' devolver el Archivo de Salamanca a Cataluña" ''El Mundo'' December 24, 2004
Retrieved 2009-08-27 The documents were finally transferred in 2005.

Publications

*''Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy''. London: Routledge. 1979 (with Raymond Carr) *''El País Vasco. Pluralismo y nacionalidad'' (1983) *''Franco, autoritarismo y poder personal'' (1985) Madrid : Suma de Letras, 2001 Taurus Ediciones, 1995. *''España 1808-1996. El desafío de la modernidad'' (with Jordi Palafox, 1997) *''España, la evolución de la identidad nacional'' (1999) *''Un siglo de España. La cultura'' (2000). He received the Premio Espejo de España award in 1976 for ''Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy'', 1979, written in collaboration with

,Fundación Príncipe de Asturias
and in 2001 he received the Montaigne Prize. His essay "La Patria lejana: el nacionalismo en el siglo XX" (2003), deals with the evolution and diversity of contemporary nationalist movements. *''La España del siglo XX'' (with S. Juliá, J.L. García Delgado and J.C. Jiménez, 2003) *''El País Vasco 1931-37. Autonomía. Revolución. Guerra Civil'' (2003) *''El malestar de la modernidad. Cuatro ensayos sobre historia y cultura'' (2004) *''Identidades proscritas. El no nacionalismo en sociedades nacionalistas'' (2006).

References

External links

Compilation of publications Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa
on Dialnet
Fundación José Ortega y GassetReferences to Fusi in ''European History Quarterly''
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