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Leyre Arrieta

College positions:
Visiting Fellow
Subject:
History
Department/institution:
University of Deusto
Contact details:
la557@cam.ac.uk

Professor Leyre Arrieta

Ph.D. in Contemporary History, she is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Deusto, where she teaches in the International Relations and Communications programmes.

She has been involved in individual and collective research projects in the areas of Basque nationalism, exile, and integration within Europe, as well as in the history of Basque radio. She has also examined nationalist symbolism and the role of women in the Basque Nationalist Party. Currently, she is the Director of the Ph.D. programme ‘Leisure, Culture and Communication for Human Development’ at the University of Deusto.

Select publications

  • Al servicio de la causa vasca. Tecnos, 2021.
  • “The Basque heroine Libe and the nationalist press (1895–1936)”, Gender & History, March 2021, 1-21.
  • “A Window of Opportunity. The Basque Nationalist Party and European Christian Democracy in Exile”, Kosicki, P. H. and Kaiser, W. (eds.), Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century. Catholic Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas. Leuven University Press, 2021, 117-135.
  • “The Basque Country within Spain and Europe: Basque Nationalist Party Proposals during the Spanish Transition to Democracy (1975-1980)”, Bayó, S. and Brady, N., Pulling Together or Pulling Apart? Perspectives on Nationhood, Identity, and Belonging in Europe. Peter Lang, 2020, 29-53.
  • “El nacionalismo vasco y Jacques Maritain (1936-1945)”, Ayer, 2019, 113, 1, 187-213.
  • Estudio introductorio. La Causa del Pueblo Vasco de F. J. Landaburu. Universidad del País Vasco, 2017.
  • “Agirre’s Government and Europe’s Political Construction”, Olaziregi, M. J., and Irujo, X. (eds.). The International Legacy of Lehendakari J.A. Agirre’s Government. University of Nevada, 2017, 183-201.
  • Estación Europa: La política europeísta del PNV en el exilio (1945–1977). Tecnos, 2007.