Yimo Chong

I am an MPhil student in Latin American Studies. I am interested in the history of economic thought, the history of capitalism, critical political economy, and queer and labor history. My thesis focuses on the Uruguayan economists who liberalized the economy from the 1970s to the 1990s. I graduated from Columbia University with a major in History and a concentration in Economics. In my senior year, I was supported by the Columbia Research Initiative on the Global History of Sexualities (CRIGHS) to pursue archival research in Chile. This experience made possible my BA thesis on the Chilean Homosexual Liberation Movement (Movilh)’s uneasy embracement of the human rights narrative in the early 1990s. In my spare time, I like to paint, cook, trek, and practice MMA.