Paula Alonso
Paula Alonso
Associate Professor
Latin America
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Paula Alonso is a historian of the politics and society of nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America. Her research combines the arena of institutions, citizenship, and electoral processes, the world of print culture, and political thought. She is the author of Between Revolution and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s (CUP, 2000); Jardines secretos, legitimaciones públicas. El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la política argentina de fin del siglo XIX, (Edhasa, 2010); (editor) Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920, (FCE, 2003); (co-editor) El sistema federal Argentino a fin de siglo XIX. Debates y Coyunturas, (Edhasa, 2015), and has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Journal of Latin American Studies, among other journals. She is completing a book-length history of Argentina to be published by Cambridge University Press and working on a research project on the history of democracy in South America and the Atlantic world, 1860-1930.
Professor Alonso developed her academic career in the UK and Argentina before moving to the United States. Her research has been supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the CONICET, Fundación Antorchas, and by residential fellowships at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Maryland; the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame, and the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies. She is also an elected US resident fellow of Argentina’s National Academy of History, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Americas. Professor Alonso teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and seminars on Latin America and World History.
- Latin America
- Argentina
- Political History
- Cultural History
HIST 1011: World History 1500 to Present
HIST 3711: Modern Latin America II
HIST 3701: Argentina in Global Context
HIST 6710: Revolutions in Latin America
IAFF 6341: Cornerstone Seminar LAHSP
Books
Jardines secretos, legitimaciones públicas. El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la política argentina de fin del siglo XIX, Buenos Aires: Ed. Edhasa, 2010.
Between Revolution and the Ballot Box. The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Revised and translated as Entre la revolución y las urnas. Los orígenes de la Unión Cívica Radical y la política argentina en los años noventa, Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana/Universidad de San Andrés, 2000.
Co-Editor, El sistema federal Argentino a fin de siglo XIX. Debates y Coyunturas, Buenos Aires: Ed. Edhasa, 2015.
Editor, Construcciones impresas. Panfletos, diarios y revistas en la formación de los estados nacionales en América Latina, 1820-1920, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.
Under Contract: A Concise History of Argentina, Cambridge University Press.
Referred Articles
“Citizenship, Education, Development, and Varieties of Knowledge in South America”, Global Intellectual History, Review Article, (2022).
“Democracy and Urban Political Culture in Spanish South America, 1810-1860”, with Marcela Ternavasio, Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper Series, 2022.
“Los partidos políticos y la nueva historia política de la Argentina del “orden conservador”. Entre la reflexión y el manifiesto”, Investigaciones y Ensayos, N.65, July-Dec. 2017, pp. 159-178.
“Elites y política nacional en la Argentina de fin del siglo diecinueve”, Anuario IEHS, N. 24, 2009.
“El orden conservador: un ícono”, Dossier: a treinta años de la publicación de Natalio Botana”, Boletín Bibliográfico Electrónico del Program de Historia Política, Año 1, N. 2 Sept. 2008 http://historiapolitica.com/datos/boletin/dossier.pdf
“Ideological Tensions in the Foundational Decade of “Modern Argentina”. The Political Debates of the 1880s”, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 87, N.1, February 2007.
“Los lenguajes de oposición en la década de 1880: La Nación y El Nacional¨, Revista de Instituciones, Ideas y Mercados, N. 46, XXIV, May, 2007.
“Tribuna Nacional, Sud-América y la legitimación del poder (1880-1890)”, Entrepasados, Año XII, N. 24/25, 2003.
“El Partido Autonomista Nacional y la competencia interliguista en las provincias de Córdoba y el litoral, 1880-1886”, Historia Unisinos, N. 4, Vol. 5, July-December 2001.
“La reciente historia política de la Argentina del ochenta al centenario”, Anuario IEHS, 13, 1998.
“En la primavera de la historia’. El discurso político del roquismo de la década del ochenta a través de su prensa”, Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. Emilio Ravignani”, Tercera serie, núm.15, 35-70, 1er semester 1997.
“Politics and Elections in Buenos Aires, 1890-1898. The Performance of the Radical Party”, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 25, 3, 1993.
Latest Referred Book Chapter
-“Political cultures and practices in Spanish American cities”, with Marcela Ternavasio, in Innes, Joanna, Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Mark Philp, Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870-1870, Oxford University Press, July 2023.
Ph.D., Oxford University, 1993