Eduardo Elena

Ph.D., Princeton University (2002);
Assistant Professor

e-mail: edelena@miami.edu
Office: Rm. 604 Ashe
Phone: (305) 284-4231

      Eduardo Elena was educated at the University of Virginia (B.A. 1994) and Princeton University (Ph.D. 2002).  His research and teaching expertise are in the field of modern Latin American history, with a focus on the Southern Cone and Brazil.  His current project is a book-length study of Argentina during the Peronist era, titled “A Dignified Life:  Consumption and Populist Politics in Argentina, 1930-1960s.” The manuscript explores the Peronist paradigm of the “standard of living” in postwar Argentina and political struggles to define social needs and satisfy consumer aspirations.  Portions of this project have been published as articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies (2005) and Hispanic American Historical Review (forthcoming).

       Before joining the University of Miami faculty, Elena taught at Princeton University and SUNY- Stony Brook.  Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he has lived the majority of his life in the United States.  He spent 1999-2000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina as a Fulbright Fellow conducting research for his doctoral dissertation.  He teaches courses on modern Latin American history, citizenship and state formation, U.S.-Latin American relations, and the comparative history of consumption and commercial culture.