Speakers Portraits > Aldo Marchesi
Aldo Marchesi Aldo Marchesi holds a Ph.D. in History from New York University (NYU). He is a Full Professor at the Institute of History and a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Uruguayan Studies (CEIU) (FHCE). He is part of the National System of Researchers (level II). He has been a Visiting Professor at Universities and Research Centers in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and China. His works have focused on the recent history of Uruguay and the Southern Cone. He has published multiple articles and books. His first work was "El Uruguay Inventado: La política audiovisual durante la dictadura" (2001), which was reissued in 2023. His most recent book is a regional history of the armed left in the Southern Cone, published in English (2018) and Spanish (2019) under the title "Hacer la revolución". Within this line, he also published a book on the left alongside Vania Markarian and Gerardo Caetano in the collection on the History of Political Parties in Uruguay in 2021. Currently, he is a member of the editorial boards of the Revista Contemporánea and The Global Sixties. His new research project is an intellectual and political history of the idea of poverty in Contemporary Uruguay (1943-2010). As part of this project, he was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton during the year 2019. He has also continued researching the left, and is currently writing a history of Latin American left-wing movements in the 20th century for the "Historias mínimas" collection at the Colegio de México. *** Aldo Marchesi speaks in table 5 “Activist circulations and transnational politics”. |
