(Plaza Huincul, Argentina, 1961)
Jorge Myers (B.A., M.A., History, University of Cambridge; M.A., PhD, History, Stanford University) is the author of many publications, including Orden y virtud: el discurso republicano del régimen rosista (1995); (as co-editor with K. Gallo and G. Batticuore) Resonancias románticas: historia cultural del Río de la Plata 1820-1890 (2005); (editor) Historia de los intelectuales en América Latina, Tomo 1 (2008); Retratos Latino-Americanos: a recordação letrada de intelectuais e artistas do século XX, 2019 (co-editor with Sergio Miceli); Continente por definir: as idéias de América no século XX 2022 (co-editor with Eliana Dutra); Itinerarios de un metaconcepto: La comunidad en el siglo XIX latinoamericano 2024 (co-editor with Gabriel Entin); and more than eighty articles in his field.
Between 2008 and 2023, he directed the collection “En busca de la ideología argentina” for the UNQ publishing house. He is a full professor (UNQ) and researcher at the Center for Intellectual History of the UNQ/CONICET, and has served as the Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (2007-08), Chaire des Amériques, Paris-Sorbonne (2009), and as a visiting professor, PUC/Rio de Janeiro (2012), Visiting professor at CONCEPTA Summer School (Colmex) in Mexico (2017); guest professor at Fiocruz/CPDOC-Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Brazil (2017); and ‘Directeur d’études invité’ at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France (2024). He is a member of the Academia Nacional de la Historia de México for Argentina.
He is currently writing a book about the year 1848 in Latin America: “1848 en América Latina: una revolución intelectual y conceptual”.