Sebastian Carassai (PhD, History, Indiana University) is a researcher at CONICET and full professor of Introduction to the Knowledge of Society and the State at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been a researcher and visiting professor at various foreign institutions, including the National Humanities Center in the United States; Harvard University, Duke University, Barcelona, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, among others. He is the author of The Argentine Silent Majority. Middle Classes, Politics, Violence and Memory in the Seventies (Duke University Press), Los años setenta de la gente común. La naturalización de la violencia (Siglo XXI) and Lo que no sabemos de Malvinas. Las islas, su gente y nosotros antes de la guerra (Siglo XXI). A different and expanded version of the latter book will soon be published under the title Beyond the War. Argentines and Islanders in an Unknown Falklands (Cambridge University Press). He is co-editor, with Kevin Coleman, of Coups d’État in Cold War Latin America, 1964-1982 (Cambridge University Press). He has received awards from the Konex Foundation, The Conference on Latin American History, and Indiana University. He is currently working on a book on the history of the concept of populism in Latin America.
Contact: scarassai@conicet.gov.ar