Speaker: Paulo Drinot, Senior Lecturer in History, Institute for the Study of the Americas Chaired by Professor Roger Kain, Dean of the School of Advanced Study
Paulo Drinot recently joined ISA as Senior Lecturer in Latin American History. Prior to coming to ISA, he taught at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds, and Oxford. He studied economic history at the London School of Economics as an undergraduate and read for an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a DPhil in Modern History at Oxford. His main research focus is the economic, social, political and cultural 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