Federico Finchelstein is an

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historian and chair of the history department at the

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and is director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies. After receiving his undergraduate education at the

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, he received his Ph.D. from

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in 2006. He has previously taught at

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. Finchelstein is an expert on transatlantic Fascism and the modern history of Argentina. He has authored books on populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. He has been a commentator on politics in ''

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'' and ''

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'', as well as other publications in Argentina and elsewhere.

Recent books

*''Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919–1945'' (2010) *''The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Argentina'' (2014) *''From Fascism to Populism in History'' (2017) *''A Brief History of Fascist Lies'' (2020) * ''Fascist Mythologies'' (2022) *''The Wannabe Fascists'' (2024)

References

External links

Faculty page at the New SchoolCurriculum Vitae
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