Federico FinchelsteinPh.D. in History, Cornell University, 2006
M.A., Cornell University, 2003
Licenciado en historia, University of Buenos Aires, 2000
Assistant Professor of History
Profile: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 2 books on Argentine fascism. He is also the author of one forthcoming new book on the global connections between Italian and Argentine fascism. He has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, the Holocaust 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.
Recent Publications:Books
Transatlantic Fascism. Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945 (Durham & London: Duke University Press, forthcoming December 2009)
-In Spanish Translation: El fascismo Transatlántico. Ideología, violencia y lo sagrado en Argentina e Italia, 1919-1945 (Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, forthcoming)
El Canon del Holocausto (Buenos Aires: Editorial Prometeo, forthcoming June-July 2009)
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)
Recent Articles and Chapters in Books and Journals
“Regarding History, Holocaust and Culture” Dapim – Studies on the Holocaust (forthcoming)
“Fascism Becomes Desire. On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics.” In The Transnational Unconscious Mariano Plotkin and Joy Damousi (eds.) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
“On Fascist Ideology.” Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (November-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, 2008.)
“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)
Room 515B, 80 Fifth Ave
Office Hours:By appointment only.
Phone Number/Extension:212-229-5376, ext. 2991
Email:finchelf@newschool.eduResearch Interests:History and Theory, Comparative and Transnational Fascism, Intellectual and Cultural History (Latin America and Europe), History and Politics, Holocaust Studies and Historiography.
Professional Affiliations:-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
Recent Presentations/Exhibits:“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.
“The History of Argentine Anti-Semitism: A Reconsideration” In panel on “Anti-Semitism: European Roots and International Diffusion in the Twentieth Century,” at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington, DC, Friday, January 4, 2008
“Christianized Fascism” The New York City Latin American History Workshop (NYCLAHW), an inter-university project- Columbia University and SUNY- Stony Brook, Fall 2007
“Peronism and Fascism” Latin American Studies Association. LASA2007. Montreal, September 5-8, 2007
“Fascisme et antisémitisme en Amérique latine” in Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine /Département d'études ibériques et ibero-américain de Paris 10/ Laboratoire du LASP (CNRS). Nanterre, France. March 8, 2005
-Messenger-Chalmers Dissertation Prize, 2007
-Sage Fellowship (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Cornell University, 2005-2006
-Mario Einaudi Fellowship, Fondazione Einaudi, 2004-2005