José Álvarez Junco Explained

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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 (UCM). He is an expert in the study of the nation-building of Spain, nationalisms and the anarchist movement.

Biography

Born on 8 November 1942 in Vielha,[1] 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 and José Antonio Maravall during his university years,[2] [3] 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.[4] He was also the Chair of the Iberian Study Group at the Harvard University's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES).[5]

From 2004 to 2008 he was Director of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) in Madrid, serving in that capacity as member of the Council of State.[6]

Chair of History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the UCM, he retired in 2014.[7]

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  1. Web site: Government of Spain. Referencia del Consejo de Ministros. www.lamoncloa.gob.es. 28 May 2004.
  2. Web site: El "historiador heterodoxo" se despide de ustedes. El País. elpais.com. 22 January 2014. Juan. Cruz.
  3. José Álvarez Junco: 'Queríamos hacer la contrahistoria'. www.elmundo.es. El Mundo. Lidia. Gómez. 8 October 2014.
  4. Web site: Esta tarde en la UPO, conferencia de José Álvarez Junco sobre "Mito e historia. España y Cataluña". Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 2 April 2014. www.upo.es.
  5. José Alvarez Junco, en el "Top 50" de los intelectuales con mayor influencia. La Opinión de Zamora. 16 October 2008. Jesús. Hernández.
  6. Web site: Las naciones son producto de ciertas circunstancias políticas, culturales.... La Rioja. www.larioja.com. 12 December 2018. Sanda. Sáinz.
  7. Web site: Álvarez Junco: "El populismo suele acabar, si triunfa, en el partido único". El Mundo. 6 August 2016. Manuel. Hidalgo. www.elmundo.es.

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