Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professorship

Appointees

Since the inauguration of the Chair, many distinguished professors have been appointed to uphold the tradition of promoting Spanish culture in academia.

• Albert Carreras (2007-2008)
• Xavier Coller (2005-2007)
• Miguel Jerez Mir (2004-2005)
• Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2003-2004)
• Joan Subirats (Spring 2003)
• Francisco José Llera (Fall 2003)
• José M. Portillo (2001-2002)
• Jesús M. de Miguel (2000-2001)

Jesús M. de Miguel (2000-2001)

Professor Jesús M. de Miguel was the first to hold the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Studies. He received a degree in Psychiatry in 1969 and a Doctorate in Political Science in 1971, both from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. In 1976, he completed a Ph.D. in Sociology at Yale University. Professor de Miguel has held several academic and professional appointments, including Vice-Chair of Social Sciences, European Commission in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium; President, Manana International Network of Social Scientists; and Director, GRS Sociology Research Group. In addition, he has received grants from, among others, the Fulbright Commission, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and American Council of Learned Societies. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as in Australia and Japan. The author of many books on sociology and political science, Professor de Miguel is the recipient of nine national awards. Professor de Miguel is currently a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, and is a member of the Standing Group on Indicators and Benchmarks of the DG Education and Culture, European Commission, Brussels and Belgium.

José M. Portillo (2001-2002)

Professor Portillo came to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in the fall of 2001 as the second Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor. He is an expert on the History of Modern Europe and Spain, focusing on the development of nationalism and political ideas. Professor Portillo is a Titular Professor at the University of the Basque Country. He is also a member of the editorial committee of Historia Contemporanea and the editor of Clásicos del Pensamiento Político y Social del País Vasco, published by the University of the Basque Country Press. Professor Portillo has received many grants from the Basque Government and the Spanish Ministry of Education. He has also conducted research at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published several books including, Los Poderes Locales en la Formación del Regimen Foral Guipuzcoa, 1812-1850 (1987); Monarquia y Gobierno Provincial: Poder y Constitución en las Provincias Vascas, 1760-1808 (1991); Cadice, 1812: Una Costituzione per la Spagna (1998); and Revolución de Nación: Origenes de las Cultura Constitucional en España (2000). For the 2002-2004 academic years, Professor Portillo is a visiting professor at the Center of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is finishing a research project provisionally entitled "Atlantic Crisis: Autonomy and Independence in the Crisis of the Hispanic Monarchy, 1808-1876."

Francisco José Llera (Fall 2002)

Professor Llera came to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in the fall of 2002 as the co-holder of the third Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professorship. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Sociology (Universidad de Deusto, 1981) and is a Professor of Political Science at the University of the Basque Country. Professor Llera is founder and director of the EUSKOBAROMETRO on Basque Public Opinion. Professor Llera's research agenda encompasses several areas: electoral studies, public opinion, political attitudes and political culture, political violence and terrorism, comparative politics, and corporatism and interest groups. He has published numerous books including: Postfranquismo y Fuerzas Políticas en Euskadi (1985); Los Vascos y la Política (1994); Los Asturianos y la Lengua Asturiana (1994); and Un Futuro para Euskadi: Alternativas Políticas a los Problemas Vascos (with Edurne Uriarte, 1994). More recently, Professor Llera has published articles in Terrorismo; Political Violence; Nationalism and Ethnic Politics; Revista Española de Investigaciónes Sociológicas; Leviatán; Claves de Razón Práctica; and Revista de Occidente, as well as in numerous newspapers and magazines.

Joan Subirats (Spring 2003)

Professor Subirats came to the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in the spring of 2003 as the other co-holder of the Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professorship. Professor Subirats received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Barcelona in 1980, and is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Policy Analysis Unit at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research fields include policy analysis, democratic innovation, public participation, and local and regional government. His publications consist of 18 books, 55 chapters in edited books, and 122 other works. Among these are: Territorios y Gobierno (2001), Educación y Gobierno Local (2001), Politica Ambiental en España (1999), and Políticas Publicas en España: Centenidos, Redes de Actors y Estilos de Gobierno (1998). The recipient of many prestigious awards including the Premio Josep Pallach and Premio Jaume Carner, Professor Subirats has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and at the University of Rome. Furthermore, he has been a member of the External Advisory Group of the 5th Framework Program of Research (EU), "Improving SocioEconomic Knowledge" and of the TERM Program sponsored by the European Science Foundation. His work has been supported by grants from the European Union, the Fulbright Commission, and the German Marshall Fund, among others.

Leandro Prados de la Escosura (2003-2004)

Professor Prados de la Escosura came to the BMW Center for German & European Studies as the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor for the academic year 2003-2004. He is a Professor of Economic History at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. He has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (Oxford) and the London School of Economics, Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European Institute, Florence. Professor Prados de la Escosura is a member of the Editorial Board of Explorations in Economic History and the European Review of Economic History, and was the Editor of Revista de Historia Econòmica. Currently he is the President of the European Historical Economics Society. He has contributed to major academic journals in economic history and has published books on 19th Century Spanish foreign trade, growth and retardation in Modern Spain, the comparative development of Modern Spain and Italy, the economic consequences of Latin American independence, the costs and benefits of European imperialism and British exceptionalism at the time of the Industrial Revolution. His most recent books are El progreso econòmico de España, 1850-2000 (Madrid: Fundaciòn BBVA, 2003) and Exceptionalism and Industrialization. Britain and its Rivals (Cambridge: C.U.P., 2004). His current research interests are on the sources of growth in Modern Europe and on the connections between Human Development and economic growth in Europe and the Americas since 1850.

Miguel Jerez Mir (2004-2005)

Professor Jerez came to the BMW Center for German and European Studies as the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professor for the academic year 2004-2005. He is currently Professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Granada, and he previously worked as assistant and associate professor at the University of Zaragoza. Professor Jerez was a fellow at the Political Science Department of Yale (1981) and was also a visiting professor at the universities of Chapel Hill, NC (1987), West Bohemian University, Pilzen, Czeck Republic (1996) and Stetson, DeLand, Fl.(1999). He has received grants from the Fulbright-Banco de Bilbao Program, and the Spanish Centro de Estudios Constitucionales and Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. In June 2004, he received - with Professors Linz and Corzo - the AECPA Prize for the Best Chapter of a Book. Professor Jerez's research fields include political elites, interest groups, political parties, and political science as a discipline. He is currently a member of the EurElite Group, supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and is responsible for the project Elites, Partidos y Sistemas de Partidos en España, 1868-2004, financed by the Spanish Ministerio de Sciencia y Technologica (MCYT) and with contributions by Professor Linz (Yale University) and Professor Montero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid). Professor Jerez's publications record includes three single authored books: Elites Políticas y Centros de Extracción: España, 1938-1957. CIS (1982); Corporaciones e Intereses en la España Actual Publicaciones de la Universidad de Granada (1995); and Ciencia Política, un Balance de Fin de Siglo Madrid. Madrid, CEPC (1999). His most recent publications in English are "Spanish Diputados: From the 1876 Restoration to Consolidated Democracy," in: Parliamentary Representatives in Europe, eds. Best and Cotta. Oxford University Press (2000), co-authored with Professors Linz and Gangas; and "Ministers and Regimes in Spain: From First to Second Restoration, 1874-2002," in: Who Governs Southern Europe, eds. P. Tavares de Almeida et al. Frank Cass (2003), co-authored with Professor Linz.