"As part of the research team working on the project 'An Intellectual History of Global Inequality, 1960-2015' here in Aarhus, my current research focuses on the question of global inequality in Argentina and, to an extent, in Latin America. Many intellectuals in Latin America have tried, throughout decades, to decipher the reasons why the region has remained poor, underdeveloped and highly unequal since, at least, the independence movements in the nineteenth century. Yet, there has been no account, to date, of the intellectual history of inequality in the region. I hope that I can contribute, via my participation in this project, to a better understanding of how inequality was thought of in Latin America after the 1960s."

"I believe that the history of ideas has two main advantages. The way I conceive it, it is an interdisciplinary approach that enables scholars to establish links across different spheres of knowledge, therefore illuminating areas of history that would otherwise remain overseen by a stricter disciplinary approach. Secondly, I think that history of ideas can contribute by restoring all-encompassing accounts of history, counteracting the more fragmented narratives that have predominated in academia for decades."

"I believe that the history of ideas has somewhat followed the path of more traditional historical and philosophical disciplines, by focusing on hegemonic actors and ideas. An important challenge, in my view, is to rethink what counts as relevant for the history of ideas. One example is the feminist movement, which constitutes a ground-breaking episode in the history of thought as a whole, since it substantially changed perceptions, behaviors and epistemologies for decades, and continues to do so in the present. Yet, a quick look at the main academic journals in history of ideas reveals that much theoretical production is still centered on more traditional (often geographically located in Europe) topics."

"The two books that sparked my interest in the history of ideas, and remain two important references for my work, are both originally written in Spanish. One is Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Facundo, and the other one is Oscar Terán’s Nuestros Años Sesentas. The former is a nineteenth-century book, which is considered a masterpiece of Latin American literature. Wonderfully well written, the book is both a novel, and a cultural and historical description of what was then a nation-in-project: Argentina. I keep returning to Sarmiento’s Facundo because it is, in a way, the book of reference when we think about the establishment of a first intellectual cohort in Latin America. The latter is another brilliantly written book, which traces the influence of philosophical and political ideas on Argentine intellectuals in the 1960s, perhaps one of the most exceptional decades in terms of cultural and political renovation in Latin America. The book is so compellingly written, and Terán’s account of those years is so intelligent, that I also keep going back to it as a main example of what I would like to do as a historian of ideas."

"My primary area of research is Latin America, so I keep myself updated by reading many journals which are edited in this region. One of the most relevant journals in history of ideas in Spanish is Prismas, which is edited by the Centre of Intellectual History in Buenos Aires, Argentina."