Alfonso Salgado is an associate researcher at the Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales at the Universidad Diego Portales. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2016. He is developing the postdoctoral project “Prensa de izquierda y gestión empresarial en Chile” (Proyecto Fondecyt de Postdoctorado N. 3190080) and is participating as coresearcher in the research project “Estalinismo y desestalinización: Continuidad y cambio en las generaciones militantes de las Juventudes Comunistas de Chile” (Proyecto Fondecyt Regular N. 1190307). …

Interview with Alfonso Salgado, author of “La batalla por la opinión pública: Radiodifusión y política comunicacional en la vía chilena al socialismo” Leer más »

Catherine Burdick is an assistant professor of art history at the Centro de Investigación en Artes y Humanidades, Facultad de Artes, Universidad Mayor, Chile, specializing in colonial Latin American art. Her current research on paintings and cartography of colonial Chile integrates visual studies, political and religious histories, and sensorial studies in order to demonstrate the critical role of artistic expression in colonial Andean culture. You can read her article “Paradise and Perdition: Jesuit Visions of Santiago, Chile, before and after …

Interview with Catherine Burdick, author of “Paradise and Perdition: Jesuit Visions of Santiago, Chile, before and after the Earthquake of 1647” Leer más »

Joshua Savala is visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Rollins College. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University in 2019. He is working on a book manuscript that examines cooperation, solidarity, and connections between Peruvians and Chileans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You can read his article “Ports of Transnational Labor Organizing: Anarchism along the Peruvian-Chilean Littoral, 1916–1928” in HAHR 99.3.

Rafael Pedemonte obtained his PhD jointly from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 2016. He is now a postdoctoral assistant at Ghent University in Belgium, where he works on a project aimed at reassessing the Cuban Revolution and its ideological transformation from 1952 to 1974. You can read his article “The Meeting of Revolutionary Roads: Chilean-Cuban Interactions, 1959–1970” in HAHR 99.2.

Joshua Frens-String is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently writing a history of food, consumption, and revolution in twentieth-century Chile. You can read his new article “Communists, Commissars, and Consumers: The Politics of Food on the Chilean Road to Socialism” in HAHR 98.3.

Heidi Tinsman is professor of history and gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States and Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973. You can read her new article “Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific” …

Interview with Heidi Tinsman, author of “Rebel Coolies, Citizen Warriors, and Sworn Brothers: The Chinese Loyalty Oath and Alliance with Chile in the War of the Pacific” Leer más »

El reciente fallo de la Corte Internacional de Justicia de la Haya, aparentemente ha puesto punto final a un conflicto de más de un siglo, sin embargo la denominada Guerra del Pacífico o Guerra de Guano y del Salitre iniciada en 1879 aún tiene repercusiones hasta nuestros días como lo demuestra la constante demanda boliviana por el acceso soberano al océano Pacífico y la actual controversia post Fallo de la Haya. Para Perú la guerra concluyó oficialmente el 20 …

Perú, Chile y el fallo de la Corte de la Haya. Una controversia histórica Leer más »

Durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX chileno, un grupo de mujeres lideradas por la escritora Inés de Echeverría, decidió fundar un Club de Señoras, donde se acogían reuniones femeninas, debates intelectuales, seminarios, enseñanza, y diversos temas que atañían a las mujeres ilustradas de la época. La existencia de este club, escandalizó a la sociedad chilena, ya que las mujeres estaban haciendo suyas prácticas que eran vistas como propias de la masculinidad. La Iglesia y la elite más apegada …

“Club de Señoras de Santiago”: ¿Mujeres trasgresoras o élites modernas? Leer más »