José María Portillo Valdés

José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés (born 1961) is éMaríaPortilloValdéa Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. He is an expert in the Spanish constitutional history.

Biography

Born in 1961. He earned a PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), reading a dissertation in 1990 titled Monarquía y Gobierno Provincial. Poder y Constitución en las provincias exentas, 1760-1808 and supervised by . On 13 February 1998, he was one of the founders of the Foro Ermua. A lecturer at the UPV/EHU since 1988, he was subject to harassment and threats coming from the environment of ETA, as well as an attempted attack in the Vitoria Campus where he worked, as an incendiary artifact was put in his car in October 1999. He was appointed to a Chair in Contemporary History at the UPV/EHU in 2017.

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Decorations

Medal of the Order of the Constitutional Merit (2003)

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1961 births

Historians of Spain

Living people

Recipients of the Order of Constitutional Merit

20th-century Spanish historians

Euskadiko Ezkerra politicians

Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country

21st-century Spanish historians