Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (born 1966) is a Spanish historian who specializes in
nationalism studies
Nationalism studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to the study of nationalism and related issues. While nationalism has been the subject of scholarly discussion since at least the late eighteenth century, it is only since the e ...
, the cultural history of war and violence, and
migration studies.
Biography
Born in
Ourense
Ourense (; ) is a city and the capital of the province of province of Ourense, Ourense, located in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, northwestern Spain. It is on the Camino Sanabrés path o ...
, Galicia, in 1966, he studied at the
University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and at the
University of Burgundy. He earned a PhD in contemporary history from the
European University Institute
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral research-intensive university and an intergovernmental organisation with juridical personality, established by its founding member states to contribu ...
in 1992,
reading a dissertation titled ''El problema de las nacionalidades en la Europa de entreguerras: El Congreso de Nacionalidades Europeas (1925-1938)'' supervised by
Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Stuart J. Woolf.
Senior lecturer at the USC since 1994, he obtained a chair of contemporary history at the USC in 2007. Following a hiatus as a full professor of Modern European History at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...
from 2012 to 2017, he returned to his post at the USC.
[.] Since July 2018, he is vice-president of the . Fluent in several European and world languages, he is also a member of the editorial board of the history journals "Studies on National Movements", ''Historia Social'' and ''Passato e Presente'', as well as a member of the International Advisory Board of ''European History Quarterly'', ''Ayer'', ''Anuario del IEHS'', ''Estudos Iberoamericanos'', ''Spagna Contemporanea'', "Análise Social", "Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies", and ''Historia y Política'', among others.
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* Die bewegte Nation. Der spanische Nationalgedanke, 1808-2019, Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2019 (reprint: Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildug, 2020).
* Sites of the Dictators. Memories of Authoritarian Europe, 1945-2020, London: Routledge, 2021.
* Imperios e danzas. As Españas plurais do franquismo, Vigo: Galaxia, 2021 (English updated edition: Beyond Folklore? The Franco Regime and Ethnoterritorial Diversity in Spain, 1930-1975, London: Routledge, 2024).
* Volver a Stalingrado. El frente del este en la memoria europea, 1945-2021, Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022 (forthcoming English edition: The Eastern Front in European Memory. On Victims and Heroes, 1945-2024, Blondon: Bloomsbury, 2025).
* Os inmigrantes imaxinados. A identidade galega na Arxentina, 1780-1960, Vigo: Galaxia, 2024.
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Academic staff of the University of Santiago de Compostela
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
21st-century Spanish historians
1966 births
European University Institute alumni
Scholars of nationalism
Living people