Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (born 1966) is a Spanish historian who specializes 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 (USC) and at the University of Burgundy. 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 (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 LMU Munich 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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