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Biography

Paulo Drinot studied economic history at the London School of Economics as an undergraduate and an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a DPhil in Modern History at Oxford. He was co-editor of theÌýÌý(2014-2018).Ìý

Research Summary

Paulo Drinot's main research focus is the history of Peru in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His thematic interests include labour history and state formation, racism and exclusion, gender and sexuality, the social history of medicine, and memory and historiography. He is currently working on a biography of José Carlos Mariátegui, a project supported by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate:Ìý

AMER0074 History and Politics of Latin America, c. 1930 to the Present

AMER0070 Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary

Postgraduate Taught:

AMER0040 The Making of Modern Latin America: History, Politics and Society

AMER0008 From Silver to Cocaine

AMER0027 Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Research Supervision:

Professor Drinot welcomes applications from students interested in PhD research in the following areas:

• Labour and working-class historyÌý
• History of gender and sexualityÌý
• History of race and ethnicityÌý
• History of medicine and public healthÌý
• History of commoditiesÌý
• HistoriographyÌý
• Memory and memorializationÌý
• History of state formationÌý
• History of social policy

Current supervision:

• Daniela Belmar Mac-vicar: Love experiences and expectations of men and women in Santiago de Chile (1880-1940)
• Emilia Curatola Fernández, Working-Class Art and Poetry in Peru: The Grupo Intelectual Primero de Mayo (1956-1980).
• Fernando Gutiérrez H.: Memory, Attachment and Appropriation of Public Space inÌýHistorical Urban Areas in Mexico (joint primary supervisor with Prof Ann Varley).
• Remy Roberts: Postmemory and Political Action: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Argentina and Guatemala (joint primary supervisor with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Marieta Valdivia Lefort: State Project and Education: the construction of national identity and the legitimation of an europeanising memory in Chile (primary supervisor)

Completed PhD students:

• John Lawrence:ÌýExplaining the compliance behaviour of listed corporations in Peru confronted by a new governance code (secondary supervisor with DrÌýNéstor Castañeda)
• Sacnicté Bonilla Hernández:ÌýNew Peasantries in 21^st-Century Mexico: The Defence and Adaptation of Rural Life by CampesinosÌý(secondary supervisor with Dr Graham Woodgate)Ìý
• Mercedes Crisóstomo: Women in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left: Militancia and Post-Militancia in Cuzco and Ayacucho (primary supervisor)
• Sarah Fearn:ÌýFinding Voice at Last? Institutional Continuity and Change and Indigenous Politics in PeruÌý(subsidiary supervisor - withÌýProfessor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Sam Kelly:ÌýEthnicity, Race, and Racism in Contemporary Peruvian Politics: Elections, Stereotypes and Public ImagesÌý(subsidiary supervisor - withÌýProfessor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Phoebe Martin: Visual and Embodied Politics: Activism and the Contemporary Feminist Movement in Peru (primary supervisor with , KCL)
• Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya:ÌýThe Legal and Political Battles Behind the Distribution of Emergency Contraception in Chile under Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010)Ìý(subsidiary supervisor - withÌýProfessor Maxine Molyneux).
• Daniel Willis: The Testimony of Space: Exploring Sites of Violence and Memory in Peru's Internal Armed Conflict (primary supervisor)
• Maria de Vecchi Gerli: Enforced Disappearances in Mexico (joint primary supervisor with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)

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Selected media appearances

• Paulo Drinot's NBn interview on his latest book: 'The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru 1850s-1950s'. Listen to theÌý | July 29, 2020

• Paulo Drinot: Una nueva manera de pensar la historia obrera del Peru. (in Spanish) | June 27 2016

• . Interview and talk for Peru's digital broadcaster 'La Mula' (in Spanish), on the topic of Professor Drinot's book 'La Seduccion de la Clase Obrera: Trabajadores, Raza y la Formacion del Estado Peruano' (2016, IEP) | June 20, 2016

• Paulo DrinotÌýon 'The Great Depression in Latin America'. Keynote lecture delivered at the inaugural Geopolitical Economy Research Group Conference. | September 2015

• Paulo DrinotÌýon 'La América Latina de Eric Hobsbawm'. Jueves HistoriográficosÌýlecture series at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de PerúÌý(in Spanish). | November 19, 2014

More staff media appearances here.

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