Department of History and Civilization

Via Boccaccio 121

50133 Florence - Italy

Office: VS-080

+39 055 4685 518

michael.goebel@eui.eu

I am interested in the social, political and intellectual history of Latin America since the late nineteenth century, particularly in the relationship between understandings of nationhood and transnational links across the Atlantic. My forthcoming book, to be published with Liverpool University Press, deals with nationalism and the uses of history in twentieth-century Argentina. I have also worked on the social history of immigration in the late nineteenth-century River Plate, whereas at the EUI my research is on intellectual relations between Latin America and Europe in the interwar period. I am especially interested in the ways in which the sojourns and networks of Latin American intellectuals in Europe impacted on the crisis of liberal models of nation-building and the rise of introspective forms of nationalism in Latin America. I gained my PhD from University College London in 2006 and have since taught at UCL and the Universities of Warwick and Bristol and held a postdoctoral fellowship from the Past and Present Society at the Institute of Historical Research, London.

Argentina's Partisan Past: Nationalism and the Politics of History (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press; to be published in February 2011).

'Gauchos, gringos and gallegos: the assimilation of Italian and Spanish immigrants in the making of modern Uruguay, 1880-1930', Past and Present, vol. 208, no. 1 (2010), pp. 191-229.