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My transdisciplinary research on modern Latin American history examines the formation of Chilean middle-class identities during the 20th century from anthropological, cultural, and sociological perspectives. I earned my PhD in History (2016) and my MA in Cultural Studies (2008) from Tel Aviv University. During my postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Research (IPAZ), Granada University (2016), I focused on ethnic research on immigrants and the Chilean middle classes. As a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, I began new research on middle-class identities and cultural trauma. In 2019, as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH), University of Edinburgh, I adopted an urban approach in my current research project on trauma.

As a Research Associate at the Latin American Centre for the History of Housing (CEIHVAL), I am a permanent lecturer on the Housing and Urban Studies in Latin America MA Program at the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty, Universidad de Buenos Aires, FADU-UBA, where every spring semester I teach 24 academic hours during an intense three-week seminar on “Formas de habitar de las clases medias en América Latina, s. XX”.

My previous research culminated in the recent publication of a book entitled Entre el cielo y el suelo: las identidades elásticas de las clases medias (Santiago de Chile, 1932-1962), Santiago: RiL editores, 2021. The book focuses on education, urban space, sports, and the press in order to address the formation and evolution of the local middle classes through gender, inter- and intra-generational, and inter-sectoral differences in daily life. It takes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the conceptualization of social classes and introducing their connection with recent history and current reality.

Recent Publications

Forthcoming

(Expected July 2022) “‘El asilo contra la opresión’: nacionalismo, masculinidades y cultura visual en Chile, década del 70”. TRASHUMANTE Revista Americana de Historia Social nº20, Julio-Diciembre 2022

 

(Expected July 2022) “‘Young people committed to the motherland’: Middle-class masculinity, radicalization, and the fragmentation of the ‘Integral Chileans’ in the 1970s” in The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies. Mario Barbosa-Cruz, Ricardo López-Pedreros, Claudia Stern, Eds., Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas book series

 

Edited Volume

(Under contract with Routledge) The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies. Mario Barbosa-Cruz, Ricardo López-Pedreros, Claudia Stern Eds., Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas book series (Expected July 2022)

 

Published 

Book

(2021) Entre el cielo y el suelo: las identidades elásticas de las clases medias (Santiago de Chile, 1932-1962), Santiago: RiL editores. ISBN 978-956-01-0877-7

New book available at: https://rileditores.com/tienda/entre-el-cielo-y-el-suelo-las-identidades-elasticas-de-las-clases-medias-santiago-de-chile-1932-1962/

E-book available at: https://rileditores.publica.la/library/publication/entre-el-cielo-y-el-suelo-las-identidades-elasticas-de-las-clases-medias-santiago-de-chile-1932-1962

Articles and Book Chapters

(2022) “‘To live with honor, or die’: The metamorphosis of place, national symbols, masculinities, and practices under Chile’s state terrorism (1973-1990)”. Journal of Urban History March 2022 doi:10.1177/00961442221083043   

(2021) “‘Professionals, merchants and industrialists unite!’ Middle-class masculinities, subjectivities and nationhood, Chile 1932-1952”. Men and Masculinities Volume 25 Issue 2, ISSN: 1097184X https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X211034910 pp. 271-291

 

(2020) “Una ciudadela para clases medias chilenas: subjetividades de vivienda y vida cotidiana. Villa Olímpica, Ñuñoa en la década del 60”. Anuario Centro de Estudios Económicos de la Empresa y el Desarrollo Nº13 junio-noviembre, Año 12, FCE-UBA. ISSN 2545-8299. pp. 111-143

 

(2020) “Political Immigrants: The ‘Chileanization’ of Arabs and Jews and Their Class Subjectivities, 1930-1970” in Raanan Rein, Ed., Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America, Brill, Leiden and Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-43223-9. pp. 108-130

 

(2019) “Cuando Chile dejó de ser una ‘copia feliz del Edén’: redefiniendo clases medias en trauma en la década del 70”. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research JILAR 25:2. ISSN 21519668. pp. 157-176

 

(2018) “Otredades al poder: ‘chilenización’ de árabes y judíos políticos y sus subjetividades de clase (1930-1970)”. Revista Tiempo Histórico Año 9 Nº17 julio-diciembre 2018. ISSN 0718-7432. pp. 109-125

 

(2017) “La sobredimensión de la educación estatal en Chile. El Liceo experimental Manuel de Salas y el ‘chileno integral’ (1932-1962)”. Revista Historia 396, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Nº1 Vol. 7 junio 2017. ISSN 0719-0719. pp. 263-299

(2017) “Otherness in Convergence: Arabs, Jews, and the Formation of the Chilean Middle Classes, 1930-1960” in Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, and Nadia Zysman, Eds., The New Ethnic Studies: Jewish Latin Americans in a Comparative Perspective, Brill, Leiden and Boston. ISBN 978-90-04-34229-3. pp. 99-127

 

(2016) “La paz neutra y el ‘chileno abnegado’. Inmigrantes y sectores medios en Chile 1930-1960”. Revista de Paz y Conflictos Vol 9 (2). ISSN 1988-7221. pp. 125-150

 

(2015) “Transformaciones en los modos de vida santiaguinos: Ñuñoa y sectores medios ¿Un florecimiento conjunto? (1932-1962)”. Revista Hache, Arquitectura y Ciudad, Año 2, Número 2. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, FADU-UBA. Buenos Aires. 2015. ISSN 2362-2784. pp. 24-41

 

(2012) “Inmigración a Israel en la actualidad: la Aliyá y su significación contemporánea”. Cuadernos Judaicos Nº29 diciembre. Revistas Académicas de la Universidad de Chile. DOI:10.5354/0718-8749.2012.25855. pp. 174-204

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Country Focus

Chile

Expertise by Geography

Latin America

Expertise by Chronology

Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Capitalism, Children & Youth, Colonialism, Gender, Genocide, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexual Violence, Sports, Urban History, Women