Master’s Degree Program
Created in 2020, the Master’s Degree in Intellectual History fulfilled a long-standing goal of the Center for Intellectual History (CHI): to develop an educational initiative that would disseminate its diverse perspectives on intellectual history. Its scope thus draws on a wide range of subfields and orientations, all represented in its curriculum and courses: the history and sociology of intellectuals, conceptual history, cultural history, the history of urban cultures and their materiality, literary studies, the sociology of culture, the history of books and publishing, microhistory, global intellectual history, the history of political languages, and visual culture, among others.
This openness to dialogue across the humanities reflects the heterogeneous origins of CHI’s members—both its founding group and those who joined later—originally trained in disciplines such as history, literature, philosophy, sociology, political science, and architecture. The program was designed to mirror this plurality of influences. Another of its pillars is grounded in the Center’s commitment to considering Latin America as a whole, continually interrogating both its shared processes and its intraregional cultural and intellectual connections, as well as its place in the wider world.
Director: Martín Bergel
Academic Committee: Jorge Myers, Sebastián Carassai, Laura Prado, and Ana Lucía Magrini.
Team
The first director of the Master's program was Elías Palti; Martín Bergel has served as director since 2020, with support from an Academic Committee, currently made up of Jorge Myers, Sebastián Carassai, Laura Prado, and Ana Lucía Magrini.
Throughout its existence, the following professors have also served in both permanent and guest roles: Ana Clarisa Agüero, Pablo Alabarces, María Fernanda Allé, Carlos Altamirano, Anahí Ballent, Martín Bergel, Alejandro Blanco, Mariana Canavese, Sebastián Carassai, José Luis de Diego, Inés de Torres, Cecilia Durán, Laura Ehrlich, Gabriel Entin, Luis Escobar, Ximena Espeche, Flavia Fiorucci, Martina Garategaray, Adrián Gorelik, Luiz Carlos Jackson, Alejandra Laera, Ana Lucía Magrini, Alejandra Mailhe, Ricardo Martínez Mazzola, Jorge Myers, Francisco Ortega, Elías Palti, Luigi Patruno, Laura Prado Acosta, Agustín Prestifilippo, Julio Ramos, Martín Ribadero, Santiago Roggerone, Mariana Rosetti, Pablo Sánchez León, Fabio Wasserman, and Dhan Zunino.
Other professors also participated as guest lecturers in individual classes, including Oscar Acosta, Carlos Aguirre, Graciela Batticuore, Pablo Blitstein, Magdalena Candioti, Alejandro Dujovne, María Celina Fares, Diego García, Marina Garone, Guillermo Giucci, Andrea Giunta, Kris Lane, María Fernanda Lorenzo, Vania Markarian, Sofía Mercader, Sergio Miceli, Gabriela Pellegrino, Mara Polgovsky, Sebastián Rivera Mir, Rafael Rojas, Darío Roldán, Hilda Sabato, Gustavo Sorá, Mariano Sverdloff, Mónica Szurmuk, Clément Thibaud, Cecilia Tossounian, Enzo Traverso, Hugo Vezzetti, Martín Vicente, and Beatriz Vieira.