Dr. Irujo is a professor at the Center for Basque Studies at the
University of Nevada, Reno. He has held distinguished visiting and research
appointments, including the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool,
the William Douglass Visiting Lectureship at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, and the Eloise Garmendia Chair at Boise State University. He holds
three master's degrees in linguistics, history, and philosophy, as well as two
PhDs in history and philosophy. Dr. Irujo has served as chair or committee
member on forty doctoral dissertations. He has lectured widely across Europe
and the Americas and published extensively on Basque history, politics, and
genocide studies, with a focus on physical and cultural extermination. He has
authored more than fifteen monographs, including The Mechanics of Death
(2025), Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (2018), and Charlemagne's Defeat
in the Pyrenees (2021).