Overview
I am a historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chile and Latin America, specializing in urban property, commodities, and class formation. My dissertation, Property and the Making of the Modern City: Urban Land, Commodities, and Capital in Nineteenth-Century Santiago, explores postcolonial understandings of property inviolability in Chile, the rise of a popular real estate market, and the role of state authorities in shaping urban growth. More broadly, I am interested in how property relations and material infrastructures condition the political economy of urbanization in Latin America and beyond.
My research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Cornell’s Einaudi Center for International Studies. Prior to Cornell, I was a research fellow at the University of Bremen, where I conducted research on the relationship between trade protectionism and social policy in twentieth-century Argentina. Among my other interests are the history of globalization, the history of economic thought, and spatial theory.
Advisors: Ray Craib, Ernesto Bassi, Nick Mulder
Publications
Book Reviews:
Harry Churchill: Rezension zu: Fajardo, Margarita: The World That Latin America Created. The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Cambridge 2022 , ISBN 978-0-674-26049-8, In: H-Soz-Kult, 17.10.2022, Rezension zu: M. Fajardo: The World That Latin America Created | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften | Geschichte im Netz | History in the web (hsozkult.de)