User:Julio Crespo MacLennan

Julio Crespo MacLennan, is a historian, writer and university professor. He was born in Madrid, on 17th May 1970 and was bilingually brought up between Spain and Britain. He read History at University College Oxford, where he graduated in 1991. After studying international relations in Madrid and in Paris, he returned to Oxford where he completed his doctorate at St. Antony's College in 1997, and became a specialist in contemporary Europe. He was in the Spanish Foreign Service from 2001 to 2005, serving as cultural Attache and Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Istanbul and Dublin. He has lectured in History and International Relations at several universities in Britain, Spain and the United States. His works have focused on contemporary Spain, the history of European integration and the Western world. His most recent book, Europe-makers: great Europeanists and Eurosceptics in the twentieth century, is a biographical essay arguing that contemporary European Union is the result of the life and works of a series of eminent Europeanists and Eurosceptics. The book has also been acclaimed as an major contribution to the role of individuals in history. He also writes articles on current affairs and book reviews for the daily press and is a member of the editorial board of ABC de Artes y Letras in Spain. At present he holds the Santander visiting fellowship in Iberian and European Studies, at St. Antony's College. Oxford. He is also a visiting professor at the Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization, at Tufts University. He lives in Madrid and Oxford with his wife and children. Main Works Spain and the process of European integration, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. Espana en Europa. Del ostracismo a la modernidad, Marcial Pons, 2004. Spain and Ireland through the ages, (Co-Editor)Four Courts Press, 2004. Forjadores de Europa, grandes europeistas y euroescepticos, Destino, 2009.