Jorge Alfredo Nállim

Jorge Nállim is Associate Professor specializing in Latin American History at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada). He holds PhD (2002) and MA (1997) degrees in History from the University of Pittsburgh, where he also completed a Certificate on Latin American Studies (1997). Nállim also has degrees of Profesor (1993) and Licenciado (1995) in History from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina). He has been visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2002-3) and Sarah Lawrence College (2003-2005), and he was also the Resident Director of Sarah Lawrence College in Havana, Cuba (2005). He has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada) and the Andrew Mellon y Fulbrigth programs. At the University of Manitoba, Nállim teaches courses in world history; colonial and independent Latin America; and South and Central American history. He has also been the coordinator of the Institute for the Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Cluster on Power and Resistance in Latin America. Nállim s work focuses on modern Latin America and Argentina; liberalism; anti-Fascism; anti-Peronism; human rights; the Cold War, intellectual, cultural and social history; and comparative political culture. He has been consultant and content provider for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, for the exhibition on human rights violations in Argentina during the 1976-1983 military regime. Nállim has published articles and contributions on Argentine liberalism, antifascism, and anti-Peronism, including Transformations and Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina, 1930-1955 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). He is currently working on a comparative research project on anti-Communist intellectual networks in Latin America during the Cold War.