Buenos aires
Agustín Nieto
Historian and PhD holder. Independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) based at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (INHUS), which he formerly directed. Lecturer in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities, National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP). Coordinator of the Observatory of Social Conflict at UNMdP and of the Ibero-American Research Network on Maritime Communities (RIICoMa). In recent years, he has specialised in computational techniques for processing historical sources (digital history) and in the analysis of social conflict (computational sociology).
Luciana Anapios
PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Holds a Master’s degree in History from the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), where she is also Assistant Researcher at CONICET. She is an Associate Professor at EIDAES-UNSAM, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars. She is currently a researcher in the PICT 2019 project Atlantic Connections: Labour, Circulation and Surveillance in the Formation of the South Atlantic Space (1902–1932), directed by Cristiana Schettini.
Romina Caldera
Graduate in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and lecturer at the same institution. Holds a Master’s degree in History from EIDAES-UNSAM and is currently a PhD candidate in History at the same university. She is part of the Social and Cultural History of the World of Work Research Group. Her research focuses on disasters, urban imaginaries, and port area organisations in Buenos Aires during the late 19th and early 20th centuries..
Maximiliano Camarda
Graduate and Master’s in History from the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), and PhD in History from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). He is an Associate Researcher at CONICET and works at the Institute of Social Studies (InES, CONICET–UNER). He teaches at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Entre Ríos and at the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos. His research focuses on economic history, public policies, and transport systems.
Laura Caruso
PhD and Professor in History from the University of Buenos Aires, and Master’s in History from UNSAM. Researcher at CONICET and Associate Professor at EIDAES-UNSAM, where she is part of the Social and Cultural History of the Port of Buenos Aires research group. Her work explores the historical experiences of the port working community during the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, focusing on demands, organisations, daily life, and spatial dynamics. Her doctoral thesis, published as Embarcados. Los trabajadores marítimos y la vida a bordo (2016), as well as her other publications, analyse labour experiences and masculinities among stevedores, sailors, and cart drivers.
Silvana Ferreyra
PhD in History. Associate Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (INHUS), Argentina. Lecturer at the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP). Her most recent work explores intersections between the fields of political history and digital history. She leads the project Politics and the Political in the History of the Web in Argentina: Imaginaries, Uses and Algorithms, endorsed by the UNMdP Research Office.In this context, she has published the article “Perón pedófilo: usos políticos del pasado en Twitter” (2022) in the Anuario de la Escuela de Historia of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, and co-authored the chapter “Narratives of Memory on Twitter: The Case of Día de la Lealtad in Argentina” (2023), published in a collective volume edited by Pocecco, Gualda, and Magnone and released by Springer, among other contributions.
Guillermina Laitano
Graduate in Sociology from the National University of Mar del Plata and PhD in History from the National University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is an Assistant Professional at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (INHUS, CONICET–UNMdP). Member of the Observatory of Social Conflict (UNMdP) and the Network of Conflict Observatories. She serves as Editorial Secretary of the Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales. Her intersectional research line bridges social history and digital history, addressing the issue of social conflict and its management by the state in contemporary Argentina.
José Antonio Mateo
Professor of History at the National University of Mar del Plata, BA in History from the National University of the Centre of the Province of Buenos Aires, MA in History from the International University of Andalusia, and PhD in History from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is currently a Principal Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Institute of Social Studies (InES, CONICET–UNER), and Full Professor of Economic History at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, UNER. There, he also serves as Director of the Master’s programme in Socioeconomic Development and of the journal EJES: Economía y Sociedad. His fields of expertise are economic history and historical demography, in which he has supervised numerous PhD theses, fellows, and researchers, and has published extensively.
Diego Pacheco
Nicolas Quiroga
PhD in History, researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) based at the Centre for Historical Studies (CEHis), and professor at the Faculty of Humanities of the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP). He is Director of the Research Group on Social Movements and Political Systems in Modern Argentina (GIMSSPAM). He was director of the UNMdP research project Virtual Communities: History, Practices, and Social Imaginaries (2019–2021), and lead researcher of the CONICET PIP project Archives, New Methodologies and Historiographical Training in the Age of the “Digital Turn” (2021–2023).
Nicolas Rabino
Professor and graduate in History from the National University of Mar del Plata (UNMdP), and doctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). His research focuses on social conflict in recent history, particularly the movement of unemployed workers in Mar del Plata. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis, which seeks to combine social history with digital history to analyse social conflict using digital tools.
Joaquín Rodríguez Cordeu
Doctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Workers’ Innovation Centre. Professor and graduate in History from the National University of Mar del Plata, where he is also pursuing his postgraduate studies as a member of the Research Group on Social Movements and Political Systems in Modern Argentina. He is the author of Peronismo, catolicismo e identidad obrera: el debate parlamentario sobre la enseñanza religiosa en la Cámara de Diputados del Congreso Nacional de 1947, the winning essay of the 2019 Historical Essay Contest of the National Congress, and of La Confederación General del Trabajo durante el peronismo, winner of first prize in the 2024 Undergraduate Thesis Contest in History, published by Prometeo.
Cristiana Schettini
PhD in Social History from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and professor in the History programme at the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies (EIDAES) at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM), Argentina. She is the author of “Que Tenhas Teu Corpo”: uma historia social da prostituição nas primeiras décadas do Rio de Janeiro republicano (2006), which received the National Archives of Brazil Award, and Clichés baratos: sexo e humor na imprensa ilustrada carioca (2020). She was also co-editor of Vivir con lo justo: estudios de historia social del trabajo en perspectiva de género (2016) and Historias cruzadas: diálogos historiográficos sobre el mundo del trabajo en Argentina y Brasil (2019). Her publications include numerous articles on migration, sex work, rights, and connected histories in South America.
Carlos Gradín
Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad de Buenos Aires y posgraduado en la la Cátedra UNESCO de Turismo Cultural UNTREF/AAMNBA (2023). Desde 2014 trabaja en el área de Cultura y Patrimonio de la Autoridad de Cuenca Matanza Riachuelo (ACUMAR), a cargo de la recuperación ambiental del río. También forma parte del grupo de arte Expediciones a Puerto Piojo y el Colectivo Ribereño, y colabora en diversas revistas y publicaciones de literatura, arte y cultura. Desde 2023 participa del proyecto de investigación UNDAVCyT de la Universidad de Avellaneda, “Mirando al río: La recova de Buenos Aires y el Puente Transbordador Nicolás Avellaneda. Morfologías de los espacios a la moda. 1870-1914”, dirigido por la Dra. Nathalie Goldwaser Yankelevich.
