Jokin Ituarte is a PhD student in Medieval History at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

His research, supervised by Jesús Lorenzo and Francesca Tinti, is entitled La sociedad de la Frontera Superior (siglos VIII al XII): un análisis comparativo sobre la articulación sociopolítica entre la frontera islámica andalusí y la sirio-anatolia, and it focuses on the confluence of different social groups and the specific features on the Islamic Frontier.