Siobhan McAndrew. “I think when we talk about studying diversity and being exposed to other ways of thinking and other languages, why not Basque culture?” Douglass said. Basque people are an ethnic group from the region of the Pyrenees in northern Spain and southwestern France.
“It is hard to put in to words what this means to me,” Douglass said of the honor. “It’s the culmination of a life’s work.”
Douglass, who majored in Spanish at UNR, studied anthropology for his doctorate at the University of Chicago. Douglass was asked by Nevada writer Robert Laxalt to direct the center. Douglass and stayed in the position for 33 years.
More than 20 books and articles on Basque culture are the result of his research.
He said UNR President Marc Johnson recently surprised him about the center being named in his honor at a dinner.
“They had a photo photo shopped with my name,” Douglass said.
UNR has about 150 students taking a Basque language, history or art class each semester and currently has five Ph.D. students.
The center at UNR’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center will officially be renamed at a ceremony today. The library in the center will be named for co-founder Jon Bilbao. Bilbao died in 1994 but his son will be at the ceremony.
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