SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Valeria Manzano is a Professor of History at the Escuela de Altos Estudios Sociales of the University of San Martín and a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Valeria Manzano has worked extensively on the sociocultural and political history of Latin America’s recent past, with a particular focus on Argentina. She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva, Diego Portales in Chile, and the University of Costa Rica. Valeria Manzano is currently conducting archival research on energy transitions in 1960s Latin America, which she studies by combining concepts and methods of cultural, political, and environmental history.
SHORT
BIOGRAPHY
Valeria Manzano is a Professor of History at the Escuela de Altos Estudios Sociales of the University of San Martín and a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina. Valeria Manzano has worked extensively on the sociocultural and political history of Latin America’s recent past, with a particular focus on Argentina. She was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva, Diego Portales in Chile, and the University of Costa Rica. Valeria Manzano is currently conducting archival research on energy transitions in 1960s Latin America, which she studies by combining concepts and methods of cultural, political, and environmental history.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT
Valeria Manzano investigates the culture of fossil oil consumption in Latin America during the “long 1960s”. She connects that rapid energy transition with transforming the consumer culture of the middle classes in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico by reconstructing the “social life” of key durable goods, such as cars.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Manzano, Valeria. (2025). Un siglo joven: cultura, política y juventud en la Argentina del siglo XX. Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI. VIEW PUBLICATION
Manzano, Valeria. (2024). “Género y sexualidades en las historiografías de la Guerra Fría latinoamericana”. Pettinà, Vanni (ed.). La Guerra Fría latinoamericana y sus historiografías. Madrid: AHILA. VIEW PUBLICATION
Manzano, Valeria. (2023). “Enemistades internas: cultura, política y sexualidades”. D’Antonio, Débora and Pita, Valeria (eds.). Nueva historia de las mujeres en la Argentina, vol. 3. Buenos Aires: Prometeo. VIEW PUBLICATION
Manzano, Valeria. (2023). “Agency and Authority”. Alexander, Kristine and Sleight, Simon (eds.). A Cultural History of Youth in the Twentieth Century. London: Bloomsbury. VIEW PUBLICATION
Manzano, Valeria. (2017). La era de la juventud en la Argentina: cultura, política y sexualidad desde Perón hasta Videla. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. VIEW PUBLICATION