Itzea Goikolea-Amiano is an independent scholar, having previously obtained her PhD in History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She was a postdoctoral fellow at SOAS University of London, UK, from 2017 to 2021, and IMF-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain, from 2022 to 2023. Currently, Itzea is a Basque language teacher at the Spanish Official Language School in Barcelona.