Education
1992 D.Phil (Ph.D), Oxford University.
1987 First Degree, Political Science, Catholic University of Argentina, Buenos Aires.
Academic Employment
2015- Associate Professor, Department of History and the Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.
2009-2015 Professorial Lecturer, Department of History and the Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.
1996-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, (Assistant Professor 1996-1998; on leave 2005-8). 2001-2008 Researcher, CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas), Argentina.
1992-3;1994-6 Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, England.
1993-1994 Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Latin American History and Politics, Bristol University, England.
1991-1992 Part-time Lecturer in Latin American History and Politics, University of Westminster, England.
Visiting and honorific positions
2010 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University. 2007-2009 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History and Elliot School of International Affairs, The George Washington University.
2007 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia. 2004 (Spring) Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin
American Studies, Harvard University.
2004 (Fall) Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Latin American Studies and Department of History, University of Maryland.
Publications
1) Books
Jardines secretos, legitimaciones públicas. El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la política argentina de fin del siglo XIX, (Buenos Aires, Ed. Edhasa, 2010).
Between Revolution and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s, (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000; paperback edition 2006).
Revised and translated as Entre la revolución y las urnas. Los orígenes de la Unión
Cívica Radical y la política argentina en los años noventa,
(Buenos Aires, Ed. Sudamericana/Universidad de San Andrés, 2000).
Under Contract: A Concise History of Argentina, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press.
Editor, with Beatriz Bragoni, El sistema federal Argentino a fin de siglo XIX.
Debates y Coyunturas, (Buenos Aires, Ed. Edhasa, 2015).
Editor, Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los
estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920, (Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura
Económica, 2003).
2) Articles in Refereed Journals
“Elites y política nacional en la Argentina de fin del siglo diecinueve”, Anuario IEHS, N.
24, 2009.
“Ideological Tensions in the Foundational Decade of “Modern Argentina”. The Political Debates of the 1880s”, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 87, N.1, February 2007.
“Los lenguajes de oposición en la década de 1880: La Nación y El Nacional¨, Revista de
Instituciones, Ideas y Mercados, N. 46, XXIV, May, 2007.
“Tribuna Nacional, Sud-América y la legitimación del poder (1880-1890)”,
Entrepasados, Año XII, N. 24/25, 2003.
“El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la competencia interliguista en las provincias de Córdoba y el litoral, 1880-1886”, Historia Unisinos, N. 4, Vol. 5, July-December 2001. “La reciente historia política de la Argentina del ochenta al centenario”, Anuario IEHS, 13, 1998.
“En la primavera de la historia’. El discurso político del roquismo de la década del ochenta a través de su prensa”, Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana
“Dr. Emilio Ravignani”, Tercera serie, núm.15, 35-70, 1er semester 1997.
“Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890-1898. The Performance of the Radical Party”, Journal of Latin American Studies, 25, 3, 1993.
3) Chapters in Books
“The Argentine Presidential Election of 1880”, in Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Andrew W. Robertson, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Revolutionary Elections in the Americas,
1800-1910, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2016).
“La historia política y la historia de la prensa: los desafíos de un enlace”, in Adriana Pineda (coord.), Recorridos de la prensa moderna a la prensa actual, (Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Red de Historiadores de la Prensa y el Periodismo en Iberoámerica, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico, 2015).
“Dinámicas federales en las dos últimas décadas del siglo XIX”, in Paula Alonso and Beatriz Bragoni (eds.), El sistema federal Argentino a fin de siglo XIX.
Debates y Coyunturas, (Buenos Aires, Ed. Edhasa, 2015).
“Liberalismo y ensayos políticos en el siglo XIX argentino”, co-authored with Marcela Ternavasio, in Iván Jaksic and Edaurdo Posada Carbó (eds.), Liberalismo y poder.
Latinoamérica en el siglo XIX: Ensayos de historia política e intelectual, (Santiago de
Chile, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011).
“Reflexiones y testimonios en torno a la reforma electoral, 1910-1916”, in Darío Roldán (comp.), Crear la democracia. La Revista Argentina de Ciencias Políticas y el debate en
torno a la república verdadera, (Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006).
“La Tribuna Nacional y Sud-América: tensiones ideológicas en la construcción de la Argentina Moderna en la década de 1880”, in Paula Alonso (ed.), Construcciones
impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la construcción de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920, (Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004).
“La política y sus laberintos. El Partido Autonomista Nacional entre 1880 y 1886”, in Hilda Sabato and Alberto Lettieri (coord.), La vida política. Armas, votos y voces en la
Argentina del siglo XIX, (Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003).
“La Unión Cívica Radical: fundación, oposición y triunfo (1890-1916)”, in Lobato, Mirta Zaida (dirección de tomo), El progreso, la modernización y sus límites
(1880-1916), Nueva Historia Argentina, (Buenos Aires, Editorial Sudamericana, 2000).
“Voting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before 1912”, in Eduardo Posada-Carbó, (ed.),
(London, Macmillan Press in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies), 1996. Translated as “El voto en Buenos Aires antes de 1912”, Res publica. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, 2003.
4) Commentaries
“Ese aladid soy yo? Comentarios al balance de la historiografía reciente de Eduardo Míguez”, POLHis, no. 10, second semester, 2012.
http://historiapolitica.com/datos/boletin/Polhis10_ALONSO.pdf
“El orden conservador: un ícono”, Dossier: a treinta años de la publicación de Natalio Botana”, Boletín Bibliográfico Electrónico del Program de Historia Política, Año 1, N. 2 Sept. 2008 http://historiapolitica.com/datos/boletin/dossier.pdf
“Sobre el estudio de los partidos políticos en la Argentina de 1890. Algunas respuestas a las observaciones de Eduardo Míguez a Entre la revolución y las urnas”, Desarrollo
Económico, April-June 2003, Vol. 43, N. 169, pp. 161-163.
5) Requested Book Reviews
Jorge Nallim, Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930-1955, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2012, Hispanic American Historical Review, vol.94, n. 3; August 2014, pp. 524-525.
Mark A. Healy, The Ruins of the New Argentina. Peronism and the Remaking of San
Juan after the 1944 Earthquake, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011, The American Historical Review, Vol. 117, N. 2, April 2012, pp. 582-583.
Joel Horowitz, Argentina’s Radical Party and Popular Mobilization, 1916-1930, The Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, 2008, The American Historical
Review, Vol. 115, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 589-590.
Daniel Lvovich, Juan Suariano, Las políticas sociales en perspectiva histórica.
Argentina, 1870-1952, Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento, 2006, Hispanic American Historical Review, August 2009, 89: 537-538.
Pablo Yankelevich, Celina Bonini, Jorge Cernadas, Damián López Martín, and Roberto Villaruel, eds.: Argentina en el siglo XIX, Instituto Mora, 2005, The Americas, Vol. 65, July 2008, N. 1, pp. 124-125.
Iván Jaksic (ed.), The Political Power of the Word. Press and Oratory in Nineteenth
Century Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2002, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 36: part 3, August 2004, pp. 590-491.
Matthew B. Karush, Workers or Citizens? Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina
(1912-1930), (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2002), The American Historical Review, Volume 108, N. 4, October 2003, pp. 1195-1196.
Hilda Sabato, The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos
Aires, (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2001), Hispanic American Historical Review,
November 2002, 82:3, pp. 828-830.
Richard Walter, Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910- 1942, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993), Journal of Latin American Studies, 26, 3, October 1994, pp. 770-771.
Hilda Sabato and Luis Alberto Romero (eds.), Los trabajadores de Buenos Aires: La
experiencia del mercado; 1850-1880, (Ed. Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1992), Journal of Latin American Studies, 25, 2, July 1993, pp. 396-397.
Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina, (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991), Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 12, 2 May 1993, pp. 231-232.
Donna Guy, Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires. Prostitution, Family and the Nation in
Argentina, (University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska, 1991), Journal of Latin American Studies, 25, 1, February 1993, pp. 198-200.
Hilda Sabato, “Agrarian Capitalism and the World Market. Buenos Aires in the Pastoral Age, 1840-1890”, (University of New Mexico Press, Alburquerque, 1990), Journal of
Latin American Studies, 24, 1, February 1992, pp. 200-201.
6) Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, 2nd Edition, Detroit: Gale, 2008. Entries on Leandro Alem, José Figueroa Alcorta, the Partido Autonomista Nacional.
7) Guest Editor, with Blanca Sánchez Alonso, Revista de Instituciones, Ideas y
Mercados, N. 46, XXIV, May, 2007.
Teaching Experience (Designed and Taught) In the US
Undergraduate Courses and Seminars:
World History since 1500, The George Washington University. Latin America since 1824, The George Washington University. Revolutions in Latin America; University of Virginia.
Argentine History, Johns Hopkins University; The George Washington University; University of Virginia; University of Maryland.
Graduate Seminars:
Cornerstone Seminar, Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program, The George Washington University
Revolutions in Latin America, The George Washington University. The History of Argentina, The George Washington University.
Independent Study (LAHSP): The Catholic Church and Politics in Mexico, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The George Washington University.
In Argentina
Undergraduate Courses:
Argentine History, Universidad de San Andrés; Universidad T. Di Tella. World History, Universidad de San Andrés.
Modern Europe, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
Graduate Seminars:
Classic and Recent Studies on the Nation-State, the Political Press, and Electoral Politics, Universidad de San Andrés.
Nineteenth Century Argentina’s Political and Intellectual history, Universidad de San Andrés.
Argentine History, (1880-1955), Universidad de San Andrés.
In the UK
Undergraduate Courses and Seminars:
The Revolutions of Independence in Latin America, University of Bristol. Revolutions in Latin America, University of Bristol.
Argentine History, University of Bristol.
The Rise of Labor Movements in Latin America, University of Bristol. Politics in Twentieth Century Latin America, University of Westminster. Latin America since Independence, University of Westminster.
Grants and Prizes
2005- 2008 Research Grant, CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica).
2001- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation/Humanities Department-Universidad de San Andrés. Research Award.
2000 -William and Flora Hewlett Foundation/Humanities Department-Universidad de San Andrés. Research Award.
2000- Latin American Studies Association, Travel grant to assist to XXII International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington DC.
1998- Fundación Antorchas, Research Award.
1997- Fundación Antorchas. Research Award. Joint project with Professor David Rock, University of California at Santa Barbara. Declined.
1997- Latin American Studies Association, LASA, Travel grant to assist to XIX
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara,
1995- Fundación Antorchas (Re-entry Grants). For researchers returning to Argentina after studying and working abroad.
1993-1996 -The Leverhulme Trust (England). (with Charles Jones). A three-year Research Award for the study of late nineteenth century Argentine politics. (65,000 pounds).
1992- First Prize for the Essay, "Historia de los comités radicales en Buenos Aires", Fundación Illia.
1990 - Fundación Antorchas. Research Award to complete a Ph.D. dissertation. 1990 - Oxford University, Interfaculty Committee of Latin American Studies Award. Research Grant.
1989 - St. Antony's College, Raymond Carr Award.
1989 - Oxford University, Interfaculty Committee of Latin American Studies Award. Research Grant.
1989 - Oxford University, Department of History, Arthur Bryce Price. Research Grant.
Lectures, Panels, Presentations
2015 (May), Commentator to the panel: “Sites of Power I: Building Congresses in Latin America after Independence’, XXXIII International Congress of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), May 27-30 San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2015 (March) “Argentina’s Election: The Beginning of the Post-Kirchner Era”, Panelist, The Atlantic Council and the Latin American and Hemisphere Studies Program, The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
2014 (October) Keynote Speaker, “La historia política y la historia de la prensa: Los desafíos de un enlace”, at IX Encuentro Internacional de Historiadores de la Prensa, De la
prensa moderna a la prensa actual, Querétaro, México. Organizers: Instituto José María
Luis Mora, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo and the Red de Historiadores de la Prensa y el Periodismo en Iberoamérica.
2014 (May) Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Chair and co-organizer of Special Session, “Liberalism in Latin American History and Historiography,” Chicago. 2013 (September)- Opening Panelist, “El Partido Autonomista Nacional
en los treinta años de concordia (1880-1910). Algunas reflexiones y una propuesta,” at the Conference: Las provincias en la política nacional, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
2013 (August)- “El Partido Autonomista Nacional en los treinta años de concordia, 1880-1910”, paper presented at the Universidad T. Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
2013 (April 10) – “Cristina’s Argentina”, presentation at DACOR (An Organization of Foreign Affairs Professionals), Washington, DC.
2012 (December 11)- “Human Rights in the Southern Cone”, Invited Lecture, Foreign Service Institute, Washington, DC.
2012 (March) - “The Argentine Election of 1880”, paper presented at the Conference:
Contentious Elections and Democratization in the Americans during the Nineteenth Century, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University.
2011 (September) - “2011 Presidential Elections in Argentina: A Victory Foretold”, presented at The Elliot School of International Affairs and the Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program, The George Washington University.
2011 (August) - “Los aspectos políticos del federalismo argentino de fin del siglo diecinueve”, paper presented at the Conference: El rol de las provincias en la política
nacional. Debates sobre el federalismo argentino en el largo plazo, Universidad de San
Andrés, Buenos Aires.
2010 (November)- Chair of the panel: “The Americas on the Eve of the Independent Movements”, Creating Freedom in the Americas, Library of Congress, organized by the State Department and the Library of Congress.
2009 (June) -“Liberalismo en el siglo diecinueve argentino”, (co-authored with Marcela Ternavasio), paper presented at XXVIII International Congress, The Latin American
Studies Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro.
2008 (July) – “El Partido Autonomista Nacional: política sin régimen”, paper presented at the Jornadas de Historia Política. De la periferia al centro: la formación del sistema
político nacional (1852-1880), Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina.
2007 (December) - “Liberalismo y ensayos políticos en el siglo XIX argentino”, paper co-authored with Marcela Ternavasio who presented it at the conference, El liberalismo
Latinoamericano del siglo XIX, The Bing Overseas Studies Program of Stanford
University and the Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
2007 (May) - “Los lenguajes de oposición en la década de 1880: La Nación y El
Nacional¨, presented at the Conference in Honor of Ezequiel Gallo, Universidad T. Di
Tella, Universidad de San Andrés, ESEADE, Buenos Aires.
2006 (December) - “The History of Populismo: A Historical Analysis”, Roundtable discussion at Conference organized by Ezequiel Gallo and Natalio Botana, Universidad T. Di Tella.
2005 (May)- ¨El federalismo político en la Argentina decimonónica¨, presented at the Interdisciplinary Seminar, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires.
2004 (August) - ¨Un partido hegemónico en una República Federal: El Partido
Autonomista Nacional en la Argentina (1880-1892), paper presented at the Universidad T. Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
2004 (April) – “The Dynamics of One-Party Rule. The Partido Autonomista Nacional in Argentina, 1880-1916”, paper presented at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.
2004 (April) – “Liberalism in the Foundational Decade of ‘Modern Argentina’. The Political Debates of the 1880s”, paper presented at the Boston Area Latin American Workshop, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. 2003 (October) - “National Politics in a Federal Republic: The Partido Autonomista Nacional in Argentina, 1880-1916”, paper presented at the Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland.
2003 (December) - “Contested Discourses in the Foundation of ‘Modern Argentina’. The Political Debates of the 1880s”, paper presented at the Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland.
2003 (August) – “La Tribuna Nacional, Sud-América y la crisis de legitimidad de 1890”, paper presented at Jornadas de la Revolución del 90, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
2002 (May)- “Combates en la prensa partidaria de la década de 1880 en la Argentina. La Incesante búsqueda de la legitimidad”, paper presented at the Symposium:
Construcciones impresas. Diarios, periódicos y revistas en la formación de los estados nacinales en América Latina y Estados Unidos (1820-1920), Universidad de San Andrés,
Buenos Aires.
2001 (August) – “El Partido Autonomista Nacional: la política y sus laberintos, 1880-1886”, paper presented at the Jornadas Internacionales: La política Argentina en el siglo
XIX: Nuevas perspectivas e interrogantes”, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad
2001 (September) – Commentator, “Nuestro gran mundo: Elite Identities in the Argentine, 1860-1940”, XXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), Washington D.C., September 6-8.
2001 (October)- “Los siete pecados capitales en el análisis de la prensa política”, paper presented at Primeras Jornadas de historia de revistas y publicaciones periódicas, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. 2000 (March) - “El Partido Autonomista Nacional: Orden local y orden nacional en la política argentina de los años ochenta”, paper presented at the XXI International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Miami.
2000 (April)- “El Partido Autonomista Nacional: Orden local y orden nacional en la política argentina de los años ochenta”, paper presented at the Seminario de Posgrado, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires.
2000 (May)- ¨El Partido Autonomista Nacional en el primer quinquenio del ochenta”, presented at the Seminario de Posgrado, Universidad T. Di Tella, Buenos Aires. 2000 (May)- Comentator, Seminario de Historia Intelectual, Instituto Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2000 (June)- “El Partido Autonomista Nacional y el juego de las alianzas nacionales,” paper presented at the History Department, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
2000 (August)- “El Partido Autonomista Nacional en Córdoba y el Litoral, 1880-1886”, paper presented at the Primeras Jornadas de Historia Regional Comparada, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
2000 (August)- “Notas sobre los orígenes de la UCR. Ideas, elecciones y oposición parlamentaria”, Public History Lecture, Archivo General de la Nación, Buenos Aires. 2000 (September) - “Notas sobre los orígenes de la UCR”, presented at the Universidad Nacional Gral. Sarmiento, Buenos Aires.
2000 (September) - “Entre la revolución y las urnas. Algunas reflexiones”, presented at the Seminario de historia intelectual, Instituto Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires. 1999 (February) - “The Partido Autonomista Nacional and the market of politics”, at the International Conference: Organizing and Imagining the Market: New Currents in
Argentine Economic and Social History, The London School of Economics and Political
Science, London.
1999 (July) - “La nueva historia electoral de los años pre-democráticos”, Centro de Estudios Electorales, Buenos Aires.
1999 (September) - VII Jornadas Interescuelas, Neuquén, Simposio “La Nación Argentina”, Comentator, Argentina.
1997 (April)- “El Partido Autonomista Nacional y su Autorepresentación”, paper presented at XIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Asociation, (LASA), Guadalajara, México.
1997 (October) –“ El Partido Autonomista Nacional a fin del siglo XIX”, paper presented, IV Jornadas Internacionales de Historia, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.
1997 (November) -“La nueva historia política de la Argentina del ochenta al centenario”, paper presented at the Jornadas de Historia de la Universidad T. Di Tella. Buenos Aires. 1996 (October) -“'En la primavera de la historia'. El discurso político del roquismo”, paper presented at the III Jornadas Internacionales de Historia, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.
1995 (October) – “La Unión Cívica Radical y la cultura política”, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina.
1995 (April) – “Los orígenes ideológicos de la Unión Cívica Radical”, paper presented, Universidad T. Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
1993 (April) – “1912 and the Creation of the Argentine Electorate”, paper presented at the Conference on Comparative Studies of Europe and Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
1993 (March) – “Reluctant Revolutionaries: The Ideological foundations of the Argentine Radical Party”, paper presented at the Latin American Centre, Oxford University.
1992 (February) – “Politics and Elections in Argentina: Buenos Aires, 1890”, paper presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
1992 (February) – “Photographs as Historical Evidence. Argentina and Colombia”, (with Malcolm Deas), Latin American Centre, Oxford University.
1991 (February) – “Julio A. Roca and the Partido Autonomista Nacional: A Reappraisal”, paper presented at the Latin American Centre, Oxford University.
1990 (November) –“Los orígenes del Partido Radical 1890- 1893”, paper presented at the Instituto T. Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
Professional Service
American Historical Association, Nominating Committee, elected in 2014 (three year term).
American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Award, Committee Member, (an annual award for the best book in English on the History, from 1492 to the present, of the U.S., Latin America or Canada). Three year term, 1/2011-12/2013. Committee Chair, 2013.
American Historical Association, Committee Member, to endow the Frederick Katz’s Book Award for the best book published on Latin America and the Caribbean History, 2013.
Latin American Studies Association, co-Chair, Track: History and
Historiography/Historical Processes, XXXII International Congress, Chicago (2014). Member of the Advisory Committee, Latin American and Hemisphere Studies Program, The George Washington University (2012- ).
Academic Coordinator, Masters and Doctoral Program in History, Universidad de San Andrés, 1998-2001.
Member of the Academic Committee of the Postgraduate Program in History, Universidad de San Andrés (1998-2008).
Latin American Studies Association, Secretary of the Southern Cone Section (LASA, 2005-2007)
co-Chair of the Senate, Universidad de San Andrés (1998-2000).
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT), Argentina, Evaluator of Research Grants in 2001; 2003; 2004 and 2005.
Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, Argentina, Evaluator of Research Grants, 2005. Fundación Antorchas, Evaluator of the open competition for Microfilming in Argentine Archives, 2001.
Fundación Antorchas, Evaluator of grants competition for graduate degrees in Great Britain, 1995.
External referee for the following journals
Journal of Latin American Studies; Hispanic American Historical Review; The Americas, American Historical Review, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean
Studies; Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana Dr. Emilio Ravignani; Desarrollo Económico; EIAL, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe, Universidad de Tel Aviv; Cuadernos de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de
Manuscript reviewer, Cambridge University Press.
Organization of Conferences and Panels
Panel Organizer, “Sites of Power I: Building Congresses in Latin America after Independence”, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), XXXIII International Congress, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015, Puerto Rico.
Special Panel Organizer (with Brian Owensby): “Liberalism in Latin American History and Historiography”, Latin American Studies Association (LASA), XXXII International Congress, Chicago, 21-24 May, 2014.
Panel Organizer: Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Latin America, Latin American
Studies Association (LASA), XXVIII International Congress, Río de Janeiro, 11-14 June,
2009.
Organizer of the National Conference (with Beatriz Bragoni), El rol de las provincias en
la política nacional. Debates sobre el federalismo argentino en el largo plazo,
Universidad de San Andrés, 25-26 August, 2011.
Organizer of the International Conference: Construcciones impresas. Diarios, periódicos
y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina y Estados Unidos (1820-1920), 16 -17 May 2002, Universidad de San Andrés, supported by a grant from
the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Organizer of the International Conference: Tendencias y Debates en la Historia de Fin de
Siglo, 24 August 1999, Museo Mitre, Buenos Aires. Professional Membership
American Historical Association (AHA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH), Programa Inter-Universitario de Historia Política (Argentina).
