José Álvarez Junco (born 1942) is a Spanish historian, emeritus professor of the History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the
Complutense University of Madrid
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(UCM). He is an expert in the study of the
nation-building of Spain,
nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ...
s and the
anarchist movement
The history of anarchism is as ambiguous as anarchism itself. Scholars find it hard to define or agree on what anarchism means, which makes outlining its history difficult. There is a range of views on anarchism and its history. Some feel anar ...
.
Biography
Born on 8 November 1942 in
Vielha
Vielha e Mijaran (; ca, Viella – Mitg-Aran ) is a municipality in Aran, Lleida, Spain. It was created in 1970 by the merger of the municipalities of Arròs e Vila, Betlan, Escunhau, Gausac, Vielha and Vilac: some of the former municipalities re ...
, in the Catalan Pyrenees, he moved young with his family to
Villalpando (province of Zamora), where he was raised and spent his youth.
He took his highschool studies at the ,
in the provincial capital,
Zamora.
He studied law (1959–1964) and political science (1962–1965) at the
University of Madrid.
A pupil of
Luis Díez del Corral
Luis Díez del Corral y Pedruzo (5 July 1911, in Logroño – 7 April 1998, in Madrid) was a Spanish jurist, writer and political scientist. He was legal counsel and a deputy in the Spanish Cortes from 1943–49, during the first legislative ses ...
and
José Antonio Maravall during his university years,
he earned a PhD at the UCM reading a thesis on the Spanish anarchist movement supervised by Maravall.
From 1992 to 2000, he held the Prince of Asturias endowed chair at
Tufts University
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. He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the
Harvard University
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's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).
From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the
Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) in
Madrid
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, serving in that capacity as member of the
Council of State
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.
Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.
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20th-century Spanish historians
Tufts University faculty
Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid
Historians of political thought
1942 births
Scholars of nationalism
Living people
Historians of the labour movement in Spain
21st-century Spanish historians