Profile
Federico Finchelstein is University in Exile Research Professor and Professor ofat 鶹ýɫƬ for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is Director of theat NSSR.
Professor Finchelstein is the author of eight books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish.
New book:(University of California Press, 2024) Portuguese, 2024: Turkish, & Spanish editions 2025. As audio book: English (Recorded Books).
(Columbia University Press, 2022) Italian and Portugese editions 2022; Korean edition forthcoming
(University of California Press, 2020). Portuguese Edition, 2020; Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Hungarian, 2021, Korean, 2022; Paperback edition with new preface, 2022.
(University of California Press, 2017 & 2019 with new preface). (, Taurus, 2018;, Donzelli, 2019:Iletisim Yayinlari, 2019: ,2019.)
His previous books in English include,(Oxford University Press, 2014)and(Duke University Press, 2010).
Finchelstein's books have also received 80 reviews in academic journals. They were also reviewed in newspapers and media such as,,, , í, La Nación & La Voz del Interior (Argentina),, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire, Messaggero, Il Manifesto (Italy), Milenio (Mexico),and ABC(Spain) andEl País (Uruguay).
Professor Finchelstein has published more than fifty academic articles and reviews on Fascism, Latin American Populism, the relationship between history and political theory, the Cold War, Genocide and Antisemitism in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian publications, both in collective books and specialized peer review journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Israel, Brazil, and Argentina.He has been a contributor to major American, European, and Latin American newspapers and media, including,,(Argentina),(Brazil), Domani Giornale (Italy), Corriere della Sera (Italy),,(France),(UK),, Foreign Policy, The New Republic,,(NYC).
Degrees Held
Ph.D. in History, Cornell University, 2006
M.A., Cornell University, 2003
Licenciado en historia, University of Buenos Aires, 2000
Professional Affiliation
American Historical Association
LASA
Recent Publications
Books
(University of California Press, 2024)
(New York: Columbia Unversity Press, 2022)
(Oakland: University of California Press, 2020).
(Portuguse Edition, 2020; Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Turkish Editions, 2021, Korean, Chinese, 2022).
(Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), in Spanish edition(Buenos Aires, Mexico, Madrid, Bogotá: Taurus, 2018);, Donzelli, 2019:Iletisim Yayinlari 2019.
Paperback edition with new preface, 2019.
(Macerata: Eum, 2019)
(Buenos Aires: Capital Intelectual, 2015). (: Intermeios, 2017)
(New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); in Spanish:(Buenos Aires: Sudamericana-Random House, 2016)
(Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010); in Spanish:(Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010)
(Buenos Aires: Editorial Prometeo, 2010)
(Buenos Aires: Sudamericana, 2008)
(Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002)
Edited Volumes
(with Antonio Costa Pinto)Authoritarian Intellectuals and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America (London: Routledge, 2019)
(With Andreas Kalyvas) Introduction and Edition of Carl Schmitt,(Cambridge: Polity, 2017)
(With Andreas Kalyvas)introduction and Editionof Carl Schmitt,, (Cambridge: Polity, 2015)
(Buenos Aires: Eudeba/Buenos Aires University Press, 1999)
In Preparation
Diálogos sobre Populismo(Dialogues on Populism)(with Andrew Arato)
Selected Articles and Chapters in Books and Journals
“Authoritarianism and Free Markets: Notes on Fascism, Populism, and Economics” Social Research, Vol. 91 : No. 3 (2024)
“Fascism, populism and disease. From the traces of the 1918 flu to COVID-19” In The Flu Pandemicof 1918-1919: A Political and Cultural Approach from a COVID World. MaximilianoFuentes Codera (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2024)
“A Global Perspective on populism” in The Complexity of Populism: New Approaches and Methods, Paula Diehl, Brigitte Barg (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2023)
“The Authoritarian Personality and the History of Fascism”Polity Journal,Volume 54,Number 1 (2022)
“” In The Power of Populism and People: Resistance and Protest in the Modern World edited by Nathan Stoltzfus, Christopher Osmar (London: Bloomsbury, 2022)
“El fascismo argentino en un contexto transatlantico” in Fascismos Iberoamericanos edited by Gabriela Lima and (Madrid: Alianza, Alianza, 2022)
“Preface” to and
Fascism in Brazil. From Integralism to Bolsonarism (London: Routledge, 2022)
“Fascismos que circulan: Mussolini, Hitler e Hispanidad en Argentina” In Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Patrizia Dogliani (eds) La patria hispana, la raza latina. Política y cultura entre España, Italia y Argentina (1914-1945) (Granada: Comares, 2021)
Also in Cultural and Political Exchange among Spain, Italy and Argentina, 1914-1945 In Maximiliano Fuentes Codera and Patrizia Dogliani (eds) (2022)
“Populism without borders. Notes on a global History”Constellations, (26, 2019) 418-429
“Populism and Democracy” (With Nadia Urbinati),Populism Journal, (1, 1, 2018)
“’Democraduras’? The case of Venezuela and National-Populism in Latin America” (with Carlos de la Torre) (Milan: ISPI, 2018)
“Fascism and Populism” In Carlos de la Torre (ed.)RoutledgeHandbook on Global Populism(London: Routledge, 2018)
“Carl Schmitt in History and Theory” (Special Issue on Carl Schmitt)History and TheoryVolume 56,no. 3 (2017) 362–369
“Fascism, History and Evil in Roberto Bolaño” in Nicholas Birns & Juan De Castro (eds.)(London: Bloomsbury, 2017)
"Truth, Mythology and the Fascist Unconsious" (Constellations,2016)
“Populism and the Cold War Renunciation of Dictatorship” in Paul Corner (ed.)Handbook on the History of Mass Dictatorships(Palgrave, 2016)
“Corporatism, Dictatorship and Populism in Argentina” In Antonio Costa Pinto (ed.)Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America(forthcoming in English and Portuguese, Brazil and Portugal)
"El Holocausto, el fascismo y la guerra sucia" in Christian Sperling (ed.)Historia y Violencia(México: UAM, 2015)
","Historical Reflections41, 3 (2015)
"A Ditadura "revolucionária"? Sobre a Teoria e Prática da Junta Militar argentina (1976-1983)" in Nildo Avelino, Telma Dias Fernandes and Ana Montoia (eds.)Ditaduras: a desmesura do poder (história, memória, política)(São Paulo, Brazil: Intermeios, 2015) 103-127
,"Constellations.An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. Volume 21, Number 4(December 2014)
"La riformulazione peronista del fascismo"Contemporanea(Italy) XVIII, 4 (2014)
"Prefacio" in Tulio Halperin Donghi,Medio Siglo de Estudios Latinoamericanos(Buenos Aires: Prometeo,2014)
"Fascism and the Holocaust." In Dan Stone (ed.)(Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012) 255-271
"The Holocaust as Ideology. Borges and the Meaning of Transnational Fascism,"Dapim - Studies on the Holocaust25 (2011) [In Separate Issues in Hebrew and English] 273-300; also published as "An Argentine Experience? Borges, Judaism, and the Holocaust" in Adriana Brodsky and Raanan Rein (eds.),(Leiden: Brill, 2013) 147-178
"History and Memory from Past to Future. A Dialogue with Dori Laub" Yifat Gutmman and Amy Sodaro (eds.)(New York: Palgrave, 2010) 50-65
Fascism Becomes Desire. On Freud, Mussolini and Transnational Politics," in Mariano Plotkin and Joy Damousi (eds.)(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 97-123
"On Fascist Ideology."Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory,Volume 15, Number 3 (2008) 320-331
"Sexo, Raça e Nacionalismo. A construção católica do del estere?tipo corporal judaico na Argentina." in Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro (ed.)(São Paulo, Brazil: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo-Fapesp, 2007) 181-204
"The Anti-Freudian Politics of Argentine fascism. Antisemitism, Catholicism and the Internal enemy, 1932-1945."Hispanic American Historical Review, 87, 1, (February, 2007) 77-110
Selected Newspaper and Magazine Articles
“The “Day One” Dictatorship” (with Emmanuel Guerisoli) The New Republic, May 16, 2024
“Javier Milei is the world’s latest Wannabe fascist” Foreign Policy, December 9, 2023
í (Argentina), November 11, 2023
The Washington Post January 20, 2022
(with José Ragas) Folha de S. Paulo (Brazil), Nvember 21, 2021
Also Published in (Italy); (Venezuela); & (Bolivia)
(with Maximiliano Fuentes Codera) El País (Spain), November 18, 2021
(with Laura Palermo) í (Argentina), October 4, 2021
Also published in (Brazil); (Italy); (Boliva); (Venezuela); (Ecuador); (Colombia); (Venezuela); (Uruguay).
“” The Washington Post July 9, 2021
Also published in (Brazil); (Italy); (Boliva); (Nicaragua); (Venezuela); (El Salvador)
“ (with Pablo Piccato and Jason Stanley) The New Republic, August 20, 2020
í (Argentina), August 13, 2020
Also published: (Brazil): (El Salvador); (Uruguay); (Bolivia)
“Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech Is the Closest He’s Come to Fascism”, July 8, 2020
The Washington Post June 3, 2020
Also published in (Brazil); (Uruguay); Pagina Siete (Bolivia): (El Salvador)
(with Jason Stanley) The New York Times, June 3, 2020
Also published: (Argentina); (Bolivia)
“O líder fascista como encarnação da verdade” (Brazil), July issue
Agenda Pública/El País, June 21, 2020
Quatro Cinco Um/ Folha (Brazil), June 1, 2020
Literary Hub, May 21, 2020
Also published in Turkey, May 23, 2020
” (with Jason Stanley) Project Syndicate, May 4, 2020
Also published in newspapers: (Brazil); (Poland); (Thailand); (Costa Rica);
Agenda Pública/El País,(Spain) March 21, 2020
(with Laura Palermo) Agenda Pública/El País, (Spain) February 26, 2020
Agenda Pública/El País,(Spain) January 29, 2020
The Washington Post April 23, 2019
í (Argentina), March 25, 2019
í (Argentina), February 18, 2019
(With Pablo Piccato) The Washington Post January 30, 2019
í (Argentina), January 25, 2019
Ӓ (Argentina), December 18, 2018
The New York Times, November 26, 2018
Foreign Policy, October 5, 2018
Washington PostSeptember 18, 2018
“C’è lo scandalo dei quaderni e l’Argentina vacilla(Italy), September 2, 2018
í(Argentina), August 16, 2018
í(Argentina), July 13, 2018
(With Andrea Mammone)CNN, May 22, 2018
The Washington PostApril 24, 2018
“”Infobae, March 30, 2018
í(Argentina), March 26, 2018
í(Argentina),February 22, 2018
í(Argentina), January 19, 2018
The Washington PostJanuary 17, 2018
The Washington PostSeptember 18, 2017
(With Ruth Ben Ghiat),í(Argentina), September 16, 2017
The New York Times,September 7, 2017
í(Argentina), September 7, 2017
í(Argentina), July 24, 2017.Also published in English as “,”Public Seminar,August 11, 2017.
SÄCHSISCHE ZEITUNG (Germany), June 7, 2017
Folha de S. Paulo(Brazil), June 4, 2017
(With Pablo Piccato),Boston Review, April 10, 2017.
í(Argentina), April 7, 2017
“(With Pablo Piccato)Nexos(Mexico)March 1, 2017
(With Pablo Piccato & Dirk Moses)The Washington PostMarch 22, 2017
Folha de S. Paulo(Brazil), Febreuary 7, 2017
í(Argentina), January 28, 2017
““í(Argentina), July 29, 2016
Politico, July 22, 2016
"The Washington Post, February 27, 2016
(with Pablo Piccato)Nexos(Mexico) February 1, 2016
(with Pablo Piccato)The New York Times, December 9, 2015
(with Fabian Bosoer)The New York Times, October 21, 2014
Reuters, January 29, 2015
Folha de S. Paulo(Brazil), June 6, 2015
(with Fabian Bosoer)The New York Times, December 18, 2013
International Herald Tribune, May 28, 2013
(with Pablo Piccato)The GuardianNovember 21, 2013
(On the Malvinas/ Falklands and Legacy of Margaret Thatcher), (with Fabian Bosoer)The New York Times, Opinion Pages - Room for Debate, April 9, 2013
(with Fabian Bosoer)The New York Times, March 2, 2013
Performances and Appearances
Recent Presentations
Invited Lecture, “Fascistas y populistas” Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 15, 2025
“Memory AfterFascism”. Modern Europe Colloquium Yale University, February 17, 2025.
Invited Public Lecture, “The Wannabe Fascists” , Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University, Cambridge, MS, October 21, 2024
Invited Public Lecture, “Mitologías Fascistas” Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires (Argentina), July 10, 2024
Invited Public Lecture, “The History and Politics of Wannabe Fascism” Latin American & Iberian Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 10 2024
Invited Public Lecture, “The New Populism in Latin America and Beyond”, Williams College, February 27, 2024.
Invited Public Lecture, “The first historian of fascism” Gaetano Salvemini Annual Colloquium in Italian History andCulture/Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Harvard University, Cambridge, MS, October 18, 2023
“What is fascism” in Conference “Fighting Fascism: Jewish Responses from the Interwar Period to the Present Day” Center for Jewish History, New York City, October 15, 2023.
Invited Public Lecture, “Is Fascism returning?” Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, February 17, 2023
Invited Public Lecture, “What’s Fascism Got to Do With It? The Ideological Origins of the Holocaust” University of California at San Diego, January 18, 2023
Invited Public Lecture, “Fascism, Populism and Inequality.Then and Now”University ofFribourg, Switzerland, April 26, 2022
Invited Public Lecture, “From Populism to Fascism”, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida Gainesville, February 15, 2022
Keynote speaker. In Conference, “Us versus Them”: Exploring Transatlantic Practices and Mediations of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins. Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), December 14-16, 2021.
Keynote speaker. In Conference, Dictaduras, autoritarismos y derechas en América Latina: rupturas, continuidades y memoria (siglos XIX-XXI). Congreso Internacional, Ca’ Foscari/University of Venice, Italy, December 9-11, 2021
Keynote speaker. In Conference, “Us versus Them”: Exploring Transatlantic Practices and Mediations of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins. Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), December 14-16, 2021.
Keynote speaker. In Conference, “Newroles of professional historians and changing forms of the public use of history" ICAS, New Delhi, India, March 2-4, 2020
Invited Lowe Family Lecture, “Antisemitism, Fascism and Populism” The Center for Jewish Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe,February 17, 2020
“Fascism and the Authoritarian Personality? A Historical View” in Conference on “The Authoritarian Personality”, New Haven, Yale University, February 14-15,2020
Invited Speaker, “Fascism Is Back” AHA, Plenary Session, (debate with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Timothy Snyder and Claudia Koonz). AHA Annual Conference, New York, January 4, 2020.
Invited Talk, “The Argentine Dictatorship”, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 11, 2019
Keynote Speaker, “How Italian is Populism?” Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Annual Conference 2019 “Promised land of populism? ‘Populist’ culture and politics in Italy, 1800-2019”. London, November 29-30, 2019
Invited Speaker, “Understanding the Media in Authoritarian States”, at the, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, December 6, 2019
“Ceasarism, Fascism and populism?” in Caesarism: Historical and Normative Perspectives Workshop: Princeton University, November. 15-16, 2019
Invited Lecture, “A Crise da Democracia e o Avanço do Populismo de Direita” Fortaleza , Universidade Estadual do Ceará,(Brazil), July 26, 2019
Invited Talk, “Fascismos y populismos transatlánticos: Argentina, Italia y España” Girona (Spain), July 2019
Invited Lecture, “Populism without Borders” Dresden (Germany), May 21, 2019
Invited Lecture. “Towards a global history of fascism and populism, Pisa, January, 15 2019
Inaugural Lecture for 2018 Academic Year. “Populismo y tecnocracia” CUCHS. University of Guadalajara, Mexico. August 22, 2018
Invited Lecture.Fascism and Populism: Two Chapters of the Same History Public. |, Germany. June 14, 2018.
Invited Lecture. “Populism.Fascism and technocracy” in Midem Lectures Series Populismus.Technische Universität Dresden,June 12, 2018, Dresden, Germany
Keynote Speaker. “Populism, Racism and Antisemitism in the Americas”, Latin American Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbia University, New York, May 30, 2018
Invited Lecture,Populism in the Atlantic World, Johns Hopkins University, February 26, 2018.
Invited Lecture,Fascismo e populismo, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy, December 17, 2017
Invited Lecture, “¿Que es el populismo en la historia?”, University of the Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain, June 30, 2017
Invited Lecture.“From Fascism to Populism. A Global and Transnational history” Global and European Studies Institute. Universität Leipzig, Germany, May 20, 2017.
Invited Public Lecture.“El populismo entre historia y teoría” Universidad Torcuato Di Tillea, Buenos Aires, April 12, 2017.
Invited Public Lecture.Cambridge University, UK, February 21, 2017.
Invited Lecture.“Holocaust, Fascism, Antisemitism: From Berlin to Buenos Aires”,The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 28, 2016.
Invited Lecture.“Populism and crisis” atGuadalajaraInternational Book Fair-Feria Internacionaldel Libro de Guadalajara, Mexico, December 2, 2016.
“The First Argentine Fascist: Leopoldo Lugones” In Crossing BordersIntellectuals of the Right and Politics in Europe and Latin America, ICS-University of Lisbon, November 17-18, 2016.
Invited Lecture. "Populism, Fascism, and Violence in the Americas." Northwestern University, November 2, 2016.
“On Latin America” in Global Think-in Populisms Now, Committee on Global Thought-Columbia University, October 31, 2016.
Invited Lecture.“On the Origins of Populism”,Technische Universität Dresden,July 5, 2016, Dresden, Germany
Keynote Speaker.“Una storia della violenza in America Latina”in Congresso Internazionale: Autoritarismi nel mondo Iberico e Iberoamericano.Università Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy, April 13-15, 2016.
Invited Lecture."On Borges & Lugones", Harvard University, September 29, 2015.
Invited Lecture.“Rethinking Fascism.” Trent University. Canada, March 30, 2015.
Invited Lecture.“The Dirty War in Context” Institute for Historical Studies and the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin, March 24, 2015.
Invited Lecture.'Rethinking the Argentine Dirty War, 1976-83, and the Holocaust” University of Texas at El Paso, March 3, 2015.
Invited Lecture."A Genealogy of the Dirty War" Center for Latin American and Border Studies, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, March 4, 2015.
Inaugural Lecture for 2015 Academic Year. “El mito político en la historia” CUCHS. University of Guadalajara, Mexico. February 10, 2015.
Selected Media Appearances, Reviews, and Interviews
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-(Argentina)Invited Lecture, “Transnational Fascism in Context: from Italy to Argentina.” Ciclo di seminari 2014-2015 del Centro Interuniversitario di Storia Culturale, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA, Italy, October 21, 2015.
Research Interests
History and Theory; Fascism and Populism; Intellectual and Cultural History (Latin America and Europe); History, Violence and Politics; Jewish History, Holocaust & Genocide Studies
Awards And Honors
TheNew England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS)2011Best Book in Latin American Studies Prize,awarded toTransatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945(Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2010).
Media Participation/Consulted/Quoted as Expert:
, , , , ,, (Argentina), (Spain), (Argentina), (USA), (UK) (In radio and TV programs), (USA), , (Israel); Santiago Times (Chile), Amsterdam News (USA), Miradas al Sur (Argentina), El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua); Hetek (Hungary), (Canada), The Chronicle Herald (Canada), Infobae (Argentina), Star Yazarlar (Turkey) Diario Uno (Argentina), (Spain), Avanzada (Mexico), El Liberal (Argentina), (Argentina’s Oficial News Agency), (Singapur); Milenio (Mexico), Mural (Mexico); Revista Apertura (Argentina); (Brazil), (Cyprus), (France), (Sweeden) (Finland), (UK): (Qatar); (USA), (USA), (USA), (USA); La Semana (Colombia); Germany); (Germany); (Brazil), (Bolivia); (USA), (Finland), (Portugal), (UK).