Natalia Milanesio

Natalia Milanesio is Professor of Modern Latin American History at the University of Houston. She is the author of Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictatorial Argentina (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) and Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture (University of New Mexico Press, 2013). Spanish translations of both books have been published by Siglo XXI Editores. Her work has appeared in leading journals in the field, such as Hispanic American Historical Review, Gender & History, Journal of Women’s History, Journal of Social History, and Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. She has received numerous honors and awards, including a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to spend a year at the Institute of the Americas, University College London, and the University of Houston College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award. Her books have earned some of the most prestigious prizes in Latin American studies, among them the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Bolton–Johnson Prize, the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) Judy Ewell Award in Women’s History, and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Southern Cone Studies Section Book Prize in the Social Sciences (2015) and in the Humanities (2020).