Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas


Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas is a Galician historian, specialised in nationalism studies, the cultural history of war and violence, and migration studies.

Biography

Born in Ourense, Galicia, in 1966, he studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela and in Dijon. He earned a PhD in contemporary history from the European University Institute in 1992, reading a dissertation titled El problema de las nacionalidades en la Europa de entreguerras: El Congreso de Nacionalidades Europeas supervised by Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and. Senior lecturer at the USC since 1994, he obtained a chair of contemporary history at the USC in 2007. Following a hiatus as full professor of Modern European History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2012 to 2017, he returned to his post at the USC.. Since July 2018, he is vice-president of the Council of Galician Culture. Fluent in several European languages, he is also a member of the editorial board of the history journals Historia Social and Passato e Presente, as well as member of the International Advisory Board of European History Quarterly, Ayer, Anuario del IEHS, Estudos Iberoamericanos, Spagna Contemporanea and Historia y Política, among others.

Works

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+ War Veterans and the World after 1945. Cold War Politics, Decolonization, London: Routledge, 2019.