Julio Crespo MacLennan is a Spanish academic, historian and published author. He holds a senior fellowship at the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies in the

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Education

Julio Crespo MacLennan was born in Madrid on 17 May 1970. He is the son of renowned lawyer and journalist Pedro Crespo de Lara, who held the vice presidency to th
World Press Freedom Committee
for 4 terms. He studied modern history at

University College, Oxford University College, formally The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University commonly called University College in the University of Oxford and colloquially referred to as "Univ", is a Colleges of the University of Oxf ...

. He initiated postgraduate studies in Paris followed by the

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in Madrid, where he took an MA In International Relations, and finished at

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politic ...

, where he presented his D. Phil thesis o
Spain and the process of European integration

Academic and professional career

He has taught history and international relations at several universities in Britain, Spain and the United States. He has been a Santander Fellow in Iberian and European Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford, Visiting Professor at the Prince of Asturias Chair in

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. Tufts also has several Doctor of Physical Therapy p ...

, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor at

IE University IE University, known as IE Universidad or Universidad Instituto de Empresa (lit. University Institute of Business), is a private university with campuses in Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populou ...

and

IE Business School IE Business School is a graduate and undergraduate business school, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1973 under the name Instituto de Empresa (lit. Institute of Business) and is part of IE University since 2007. IE Business School is ...

. Throughout his academic career, he has lectured in over twenty countries in Europe, America and the Middle East. For a time he worked in cultural diplomacy representing the Spanish diplomatic mission as director of the

Instituto Cervantes Instituto Cervantes (, the Cervantes Institute) is a worldwide nonprofit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the author of ''Don Quixote'' and perhaps the most important fi ...

in Istanbul, Dublin, and London. In his latter post, in 2016, Crespo MacLennan was in charge of the cultural programme that marked the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes. Also in London, he conducted a series of conversations with eminent Hispanists in the English-speaking world. He first specialized in Spanish modern history as a member of the Oxford School of Historians founded by

Raymond Carr Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr (11 April 1919 – 19 April 2015) was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. Early life Carr was ...

. Later, his work veered towards contemporary Europe and European integration history. His main research interests lie in modern European history and the legacy of Europe in the global world, including a pioneering pan-European history, beyond artificial barriers of nation-states and national rivalries, presented at the Instituto Cervantes in London in February 2019.

Publications

Crespo MacLennan has published six books, includin
''Spain and the process of European integration, 1957-1985''
in 1999
''Imperios, auge y declive de Europa en el mundo'' 1492-2015
in 2012, and his latest and most ambitious work
''Europa: how Europe shaped the modern world''
in 2018. He has also published over one hundred book reviews and articles in academic journals and the daily press, mainly in the Spanish daily newspaper
ABC
an
El Pais
Full list of publications:
''Spain and the process of European integration'', 1957–85, Palgrave 1999

''España en Europa, del ostracismo a la modernidad'', Marcial Pons, 2004

(co-editor) ''Spain and Ireland through the ages'', Four Courts Press, 2006

''Forjadores de Europa, grandes europeístas y euroescépticos del siglo XX'', Destino, 2009

''Imperios, auge y declive de Europa en el mundo'', 1492-2012, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2012

''Europa: how Europe shaped the modern world'', Pegasus books, 2018

External links

* The Viney Agency: http://www.thevineyagency.com/author_juliomaclennan.html * World Catalogue Authors: http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2012003656/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Crespo MacLennan, Julio Academic staff of IE University 21st-century Spanish historians 1970 births Living people Alumni of University College, Oxford Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford