History Seminar: Chile’s Neoliberal Nationalization: How a Dictator Spooked Copper Investors, 1974-1989

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Margarita Fajardo, LAC-OSGA and Sarah Lawrence College

To join online, please register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WWqjr8SgT_WrzTodI65cdg

Margarita Fajardo is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College, New York and a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at LAC/OSGA, in Oxford University. She specializes in modern Latin American history, particularly in the history of Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, and on the history of economics, economic policymaking, and economic life. She is the author of the award-winning book The World that Latin America Created: CEPAL in the Development Era. Her work has been also published in the American Historical Review, the Latin American Research Review, and in several edited volumes on the history of Latin American and international development. She is currently working on a second book project tentatively titled Taming Markets on the history of inflation and commodity policy in the transition to a neoliberal order in Latin America.