Begoña Aretxaga

Begoña Aretxaga (San Sebastián, Spain, February 24, 1960 - Austin Texas, December 28, 2002) was a Basque anthropologist known for her work on Northern Ireland and Basque country.

She graduated at Philosophy and Phychology from the University of the Basque Country and got her PhD in anthropology on Irish Nationalism with a gender perspective at Princeton University. She lectured in Princeton, Harvard University, and near the end of her life she taught at the University of Texas at Austin. She received the MacArthur Award in recognition of her work in 2001 one year before she died of lung cancer at 42.