Basque Studies Faculty

BASQUE STUDIES DIRECTORS:

John Bieter
Acting Director,
BOISE STATE UNIVERISTY BASQUE STUDIES CENTER
208-426-5332
email: johnbieter@boisestate.edu

Education:
B.A. University of St. Thomas
M.A. Boise State University
Ph. D. Boston College

John Bieter graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in Social Science and a concentration in Economics. He completed his Masters degree at Boise State University and his thesis was published as An Enduring Legacy: A History of the Basques in Idaho. John earned his doctoral degree from Boston College where he focused his research and teaching interests on Immigration and Ethnicity, the American West, and American Catholicism.

Currently, John serves as an advisor for pre-service educators in the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs and as Director of the Center for Basque Studies.




Nere Lete
Visiting Assistant Professor,
DIRECTOR BASQUE STUDIES MINOR
email: nlete@boisestate.edu

Education:
M.F.A University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 1994
B.A University of Deusto, Donostia. Basque Country. 1986

Nere Lete, a native of the Basque Country attended Basque schools during Franco’s dictatorship in Spain. Nere received her first Basque language teaching certificate from Euskaltzaindia when she was 15. And later, she studied Basque Philology in the Basque Country. While pursuing her studies, Nere worked for Basque television and film translating and adapting scripts. She also worked as a voice-over dubbing actress. Nere was also a puppeteer for Basque children programming.

She received a grant to teach Basque at the University of Nevada in Reno in 1988. She has taught Basque and Spanish in the Basque Country, University of Nevada – Reno, University of Iowa and Boise State University. In 1994 Nere received her Master of Fine Arts degree in translation from the University of Iowa. She has been an instructor on and off at Boise State University since 1994 (she took some time to raise her children bilingually.)

Now, a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Basque at Boise State University, besides teaching Basque language she also teaches Basque culture, literature, art history, and cinema in Spanish and English under the department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Nere keeps close working relationship with the Basque Museum and Cultural Center of Boise, and with the Boiseko Ikastola, the first Basque language preschool in the United States which she helped to create.


Adjunct Instructors:
Jill ALDAPE
Dan ANSOTEGUI
Lisa CORCOSTEGUI
Colleen FILMORE
Xabier IRUJO
David LACHIONDO
John YSURSA

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