Notes on Contributors
Juan Pablo Artinian
Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. B.A. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. His doctoral dissertation examined the relationship between politics and visual culture in mid-twentieth-century Argentina. He is a former postdoctoral fellow at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). He has published academic articles on Argentine history and a book on the Armenian genocide. His area of expertise is the study of genocides. He is currently a visiting professor of History at the Torcuato Di Tella University.
Norman Fraser Brown
Ph.D. in History from the University of Dundee, where he is an Honorary Research Fellow. After engagement in the famous Scottish infantry regiment the Black Watch, he attended and graduated from Stirling University before embarking on a career in secondary teaching in Scotland. His main research interests concern the Great War and in particular the Scottish military return migration of 1914–1918, the mobilization of Scottish society in support of the British war effort, and the impact of that war on village and small-town life.
Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz
Ph.D. in History. He is currently a professor at the University of Córdoba (Spain). His lines of research are the relations between Spain and Chile and the impacts of the First World War on Chilean society. He is a researcher responsible for a project financed by the Ministry of Education of Chile, entitled “The Homeland at war: The European colonies in southern Chile during World War I and post-war (1914–1924)”.
Hernán M. Díaz
B.A. in Letters and Ph.D. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. His doctoral dissertation concerned the French elite of Buenos Aires in the first two decades of the twentieth century. He has specialized in the study of the Argentine workers’ movement in the early twentieth century, the immigration phenomenon in Argentina, and the European socialist movement of the early nineteenth century.
Germán C. Friedmann
Ph.D. and B.A. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). Professor of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Social Sciences – University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Member of the Program of Economic and Social History American (PEHESA) – Ravignani Institute, UBA/CONICET. His research interests are anti-Nazi German speakers and the anti-fascist movement in Argentina, the Argentine National Socialist Party, the Second World War, and the perception of National Socialism in Argentine politics.
Marcelo Huernos
B.A. in History. Professor of General Economic and Social History at the Faculty of Economics – University of Buenos Aires. Researcher and content producer at the Muntref – Immigration Museum, where he curated the exhibition “Italians and Spaniards in Argentina (1870–1950)”. His research focuses on Italian anti-fascism in Argentina.
Milagros Martínez-Flener
B.A. and M.A. in History from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and Ph.D. in History from the University of Vienna. She is an independent researcher. Her area of specialization is the study of the Austro-Hungarian migration to Latin America.
Stefan Rinke
Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the Institute of Latin American Studies and the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute at the Free University of Berlin. He was awarded the Premio Alzate by the Mexican Academy of Sciences and received the Einstein Research Fellowship. His research interests are focused on the building of the world during the age of discovery, Latin American independence in the Atlantic context, Latin America and the First World War, and cultural globalization in the twentieth century.
María Inés Tato
Ph.D. and B.A. in History from the University of Buenos Aires. Researcher of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council – Argentina (CONICET) at the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr. E. Ravignani”, UBA/CONICET. Founder and coordinator of the Group of Historical War Studies (GEHiGue) at that institute. Director of the academic journal Historia & Guerra. Member of the scientific committee of the International Research Center of the Historial of the Great War, France. She is professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences – University of Buenos Aires and the Master in War History – Superior War College – Army Faculty – National Defense University. Her current research area is the impact of the First World War in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, and the social and cultural history of the Falklands/Malvinas War.