Edward E. Malefakis is a professor of history at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 and a Hispanist

Hispanist

A Hispanist is a scholar specialising in Hispanic studies, that is Spanish or Portuguese language, literature, linguistics, or civilization, and by extension, Basque, Catalan and Galician....

. He is an expert on Spanish history.

The winner of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...

's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize is an annual award of the American Historical Association. It is awarded to new authors of European history. Named in honor of Herbert Baxter Adams, who was from the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and one of the founders of the AHA.Established in 1905, the prize...

 in 1971 for his work "Agrarian Reform and Peasant Revolution in Spain, Origins of the Civil War" (Yale U.P.), he was a member of the panel of experts, along with Federico Mayor Zaragoza and Juan Pablo Fusi

Juan Pablo Fusi

Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurua is a Spanish historian. He specialises in contemporary history, the Basque Country and nationalisms.-Studies:...

, among others, commissioned in 2004 by the government of Spain to advise over the notorious "Salamanca Papers

Salamanca Papers

The Salamanca Papers refer to the 300,000 documents and 1,000 photographs confiscated from the Catalan government after the Spanish Civil War and transported in 12 railway freight wagons to the city of Salamanca to be stored in what was later to become Spain's Civil War Archive .The return of the...

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