Ph.D. in History, Cornell University, 2006
M.A., Cornell University, 2003
Licenciado en historia, University of Buenos Aires, 2000

Federico Finchelstein is Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the history department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University.

Professor Finchelstein is the author of 4 books on fascism, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His last book, Transatlantic Fascism (2010), studies the global connections between Italian and Argentine fascism. He has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, Genocide and Antisemitism in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian publications, both in collective books and specialized peer review journals in the United States, the United Kingdom. Belgium, Italy, Spain, Israel, Brazil and Argentina.

Books

Transatlantic Fascism. Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010)

-In Spanish Translation: El fascismo Transatlántico. Ideología, violencia y lo sagrado en Argentina e Italia, 1919-1945 (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, forthcoming, May 2010)

El Canon del Holocausto (Buenos Aires: Editorial Prometeo, forthcoming, 2010)

La Argentina Fascista. Los orígenes ideológicos de la dictadura (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2008)

Fascismo, Liturgia e Imaginario. El mito del general Uriburu y la Argentina nacionalista (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002)

Edited books

El Holocausto, los alemanes y la culpa colectiva. El debate Goldhagen (Buenos Aires: Eudeba/Buenos Aires University Press, 1999)

Articles and Chapters in Books and Journals

“History and Memory from Past to Future. A Dialogue with Dori Laub” Yifat Gutmman and Amy Sodaro (eds.) Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society (New York: Palgrave, forthcoming)

“Regarding History, Holocaust and Culture” Dapim - Studies on the Holocaust 23 (2009)

“Fascism Becomes Desire. On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics.” In The Transnational Unconscious Mariano Plotkin and Joy Damousi (eds.) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

“On Fascist Ideology.” Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory Volume 15, Number 3 (2008)

“Argentina: Truth Commissions.” In The Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons /Thomson Gale, 2008)

“Sexo, Raça e Nacionalismo. A construção católica do del estereόtipo corporal judaico na Argentina.” in Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro (ed.) O ANTI-SEMITISMO NAS AMÉRICAS. Memória e História (São Paulo, Brazil: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo-Fapesp, 2007)

“The Anti-Freudian Politics of Argentine fascism. Antisemitism, Catholicism and the Internal enemy, 1932-1945.” Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 87, Number 1, (February, 2007)

“Psychoanalysis North and South/ Psicoanálisis Sur y Norte.” E.I.A.L. Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Volume 18, Number 1 (2007)

“The Fascist Canon. Renzo De Felice and the Writing of History.” Forum Italicum (Spring 2006)

“The Holocaust Canon: Rereading Raul Hilberg.” New German Critique, Issue 96 Fall 2005 (June 2006)

Recent Presentations/Exhibits:

“Exporting Fascism” Columbia Seminar Studies in Modern Italy, New York, December 4, 2009.

“‘Dirty war’, Ideology and Trauma. An Argentine history” co-sponsored event The Americas Colloquium- European History Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca. October 19, 2009.

“The Holocaust as Ideology. Borges, Trauma and the Fascist Unconscious.” In Repetition with Change: The Intellectual Legacies of Dominick LaCapra. Cornell University, Ithaca. September 25-26, 2009.

“The Ideological Origins of the “Dirty War” Antisemitism and Fascism in Twentieth Century Argentina.” History Department and Center for Jewish Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az. March 5, 2009.

“Fascism Becomes Desire” In New School for Social Research. Graduate Faculty General Seminar. New York City. February 25, 2009.

Discussant, in Panel: “Culture and Community” in Jewish Urban History in the Americas: A Comparative Look at Jewish Buenos Aires & Jewish Los Angeles”. The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. UCLA. Los Angeles, February. 8-9, 2009.

The ‘Argentine Empire’: Fascism, Hispanidad and Nacionalismo across the Atlantic (1922-1945)” in IBERIA & THE AMERICAS: Contacts and Migrations Philosophy Hall, Columbia University. Barnard Forum on Migration. April 25-26, 2008

“Argentina's Memory of the Dictatorship” In The School of Social Science, Rule of Law Seminar Film Group, Institute for Advanced Study. Princeton, NJ. January 31, 2008.

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History and Theory, Comparative and Transnational Fascism, Intellectual and Cultural History (Latin America and Europe), History and Politics, Holocaust Studies and Historiography.

-American Historical Association
-Latin American Studies Association
-Conference on Latin American History
-LEER_ Laboratório de Estudos sobre Etnicidade, Racismo e Discriminação
-Pesquisador Convidado/Visiting Researcher.  University of São Paulo, Brazil

Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Historical Memory

Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Historical Memory