(Buenos Aires, 1973)
Martín Bergel (PhD, Universidad de Buenos Aires) is a professor of Latin American History and Global History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Universidad de San Martín. Since 2011, he has been a researcher at CONICET and the Center for Intellectual History, where he is a member of the editorial team of the journal Prismasand since 2021, he has also directed the Master's Degree Program in Intellectual History. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Oscar Terán Seminar on the History of Ideas, Intellectuals, and Culture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Bergel was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University (2012) and has received scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation, UCL London, and the DAAD in Germany (2009 and 2015); he was a senior fellow at CALAS (Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, 2019-2020), a Mercator Fellow in the “Global Intellectual History” program at the Free University of Berlin (2022), and a Georg Forster Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2023-2025). He has also been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo, the Catholic University of Chile, Shanghai University, and El Colegio de México. He has lectured at Harvard University, Tulane University, the Universidad Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, the Universidad Federal Fluminense, the University of Oxford, the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, the Vasconcelos Library in Guadalajara, Peking University, and the Cervantes Institute in New Delhi, among other places.
His primary areas of research are intellectual history, the history of print culture in Latin America, and the history of the Third World imagination. His work seeks to connect Latin American studies with global history perspectives. He published El Oriente desplazado. Los intelectuales y los orígenes del tercemundismo en Argentina (UNQ, 2015; Third Prize in the 2019 National Awards of the Ministry of Culture of Argentina) and La desmesura revolucionaria. Cultura y política en los orígenes del APRA La Siniestra, 2019), as well as two anthologies by José Carlos Mariátegui (in Siglo XXI's “Biblioteca del Pensamiento Socialista,” 2020, and in Fondo de Cultura Económica's “Serie Viajeros/Viajeras,” 2022), and the preliminary study for the centenary reissue of his first book, La escena contemporáneaalso in the FCE (2025). As an editor, he published Los viajes latinoamericanos de la Reforma Universitaria (HyA, Rosario, 2018), El Futuro. Miradas desde las Humanidades (UNSAM Edita, 2019, with Andrés Kozel and Valeria Llobet) and El Estado editor. Libros política y cultura en América Latina (Tren en movimiento, 2025, with Carlos Aguirre y Sebastián Rivera Mir).
Contact: bergelmartin@gmail.com
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