Originally from the UK but having traveled extensively all over the world from an early age with his family, Cameron Watson is a writer, translator, copyeditor, and teacher. He went to graduate school in the United States and has a PhD in Basque Studies, with an emphasis in History. He taught Basque and Spanish history as well as that of modern Europe at the University of Nevada, Reno, and he has also been a visiting professor at several universities in Spain. He has lived in Andalusia and currently resides in the Basque Country, where he divides his time between freelance work in academic publishing and teaching on studies abroad programs for different US universities. He is the author of the definitive text in English on modern Basque history as well as several other books and articles. He speaks Spanish, Basque, and French and his interests include Basque history and culture and, more broadly, the complex issue of diverse Iberian identities through history. Such issues include the Islamic legacy in Andalusian culture, the central place of Andalusia in the creation of Spanish national identity, and the recent controversy over Catalan claims to independence. If one historical moment came to define the thorny issue of national identity in Spain, it was the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, a topic he has studied in some depth and a conflict whose ramifications persist to this day.

Langage spoken : English, Spanish

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