
(Corrientes, 1939)
Carlos Altamirano is a retired Researcher with CONICET and Professor Emeritus at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ). He was the creator and director of the Intersecciones collection published by UNQ Press and is a member of the editorial board of Prismas, a journal of intellectual history,published by the same press.
He served as director of the Center for Studies and Research and the Program of Intellectual History at UNQ and a member of the cultural criticism magazine Punto de vista.He has taught courses and given lectures at universities in Argentina, the United States, and Europe. In 2008, he served as Visiting Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University.
He is the author of, among other works: Frondizi: el hombre de ideas como político (1998), Peronismo y cultura de izquierda (2001), Bajo el signo de las masas, 1943-1973 (2001); Para un programa de historia intelectual (2005); Intelectuales. Notas de investigación In collaboration with Beatriz Sarlo, he wrote Literatura/sociedad (1983) and Ensayos argentinos: de Sarmiento a la vanguardia (1997). He was responsible for editing the dictionary Términos críticos de sociología de la cultura (2002). He was awarded the Konex Prize for political essays in 2004 and 2007, the John S. Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, and the Robert F. Kennedy Fellowship in 2008.