Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas

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. Born in Ourense, Galicia, in 1966, he studied at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and in Dijon. He earned a PhD in contemporary history from the European University Institute (EUI) 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 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 (Consello da Cultura Galega). 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 a member of the International Advisory Board of European History Quarterly, Ayer, Anuario del IEHS, Estudos Iberoamericanos, Spagna Contemporanea and Historia y Política, among others. Author 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. Volver a Stalingrado. El frente del este en la memoria europea, 1945-2021, Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg,2022.