Faculty
and Staff
William A. Douglass
Coordinator Emeritus of Basque Studies
775.784.4854
William Douglass helped to initiate the Basque
Studies Program (now Center for Basque Studies) and served
as its Coordinator for over thirty
years.
Education
Ph.D. Social Anthropology, University of Chicago
Courses taught
Old-World Basque culture, European peasant society, family history, immigration and ethnicity
Research interests
Peasant society, ethnic groups and ethnicity maintenance, Basque society, Mediterranean social structure, family history, migration studies
Selected Publications
Creating the New Basque Diaspora. In Basque Politics and Nationalism on the Eve of the New
Millennium edited by William A. Douglass, Carmelo Urza,
Linda White and Joseba Zulaika, 208-228. Basque Studies
Program Occasional Papers Series, No. 6. Reno: Basque
Studies Program, 1999.
A Western Perspective on an Eastern
Interpretation of Where North Meets South: Pyrenean
Borderland Cultures. In Border Identities. Nation
and State at International Frontiers, edited by Thomas
Wilson and Hastings Donnan, 62-95. Cambridge University
Press, 1998.
From Italy to Ingham. Italians in North
Queensland. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press,
1995.
(with Stanford M. Lyman and Joseba Zulaika) Migración, etnicidad y etnonacionalismo. Bilbao: Universidad del
País Vasco, 1994.
(Editor, with Robert A. Nylen), Letters from the
Nevada Frontier. Correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie,
1898-1902 Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Emigration in a South Italian Town: An
Anthropological History. New Brunswick, New Jersey:
Rutgers University Press, 1984.
Beltran: Basque Sheepman of the American West. University of Nevada
Press, 1979.
Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World (with
Jon Bilbao) University of Nevada Press, 1975.
Full curriculum
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