Graduate students
Five students are currently enrolled in the Basque Studies Tutorial Ph.D. program.
Tania's field is communications. After finishing a degree in Journalism at the University of the Basque Country, she completed two years of advanced studies in New Technologies in Communication at the same institution. Since then she has worked in radio, TV, Web pages, comics, video-creation and press. Her interests are science fiction, anthropology, creativity, networking, psychology and listening, reading or seeing stories. Her supervisor is Sandra Ott.
Iker is from Tolosa. He is a graduate in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country. He holds a Master's Degree in Moral Philosophy as well as a Pedagogy Degree. His interests are Moral Philosophy, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology and Contemporary Philosophers. His directors are Xabier Irujo and Xabier Insausti.
Imanol Murua
Imanol is from Zarautz, Gipuzkoa. He is a graduate in Journalism and holds a Master's degree in Social Communication. He has worked as a journalist in the daily newspapers Berria and Egunkaria, the weekly magazine Argia and the journal Jakin. Now he writes weekly articles for Berria and Radio Euskadi from Reno. He published several books, being the most recent and significant the report about the failed Basque peace process in 2005-2007. It was originally published in Basque (Loiola hegiak) and later translated to Spanish (El triangulo de Loiola). He is now researching about the political process which could bring the end of the violence of ETA. His supervisor is Sandra Ott.
Mariann Vaczi
Ph.D. student Mariann Vaczi was awarded the Frances A. Echeverria Graduate Student Award, designed to assist the student in completing a dissertation. Ms. Vaczi is pursuing her doctorate with an emphasis in Anthropology, focusing on an ethnography of the soccer team Athletic Bilbao. She has been a Research Assistant at the Center since fall of 2007. She has three Master’s degrees: 2005, Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest; 2006, American Studies, ELTE University, Budapest; 2007, Translation Studies, ELTE University, Budapest.
Magda Czajkowska-Vazquez
Magda is from Poland. Her dissertation will deal with Basque Mythology. She has a Master’s degree in Spanish philology, with a thesis on Basque Oral Literature.