Aldo Marchesi

Aldo Marchesi holds a PhD in History from New York University (NYU). He is a Full Professor in the Department of Theory and Historiography at the Institute of History and a member of the Interdisciplinary Studies on Uruguay (CEIU) (FH CE) at the University of the Republic (Uruguay). He recently formed, together with colleagues from other disciplines, the Institute for Research on Social Justice and Inequality (IJD). He is a member of the National System of Researchers (level II). He has been a visiting professor at universities and research centers in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, and China. His work has focused on recent history and memorial disputes in Uruguay and the Southern Cone. He has published numerous articles and books. His first work was El Uruguay Inventado. La política audiovisual durante la dictadura (2001), which was reissued in 2023. His most recent book is regional history of the armed left in the Southern Cone, published in English (2018) as Latin America’s Radical Left: Rebellion and Cold War in the Global 1960s by Cambridge University Press and in Spanish (2019) as Hacer la revolución y Siglo XXI Ediciones. In the same vein, he also published the book Izquierdas (Leftists) with Vania Markarian and Gerardo Caetano in the collection on the history of political parties in Uruguay in 2024. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Revista Contemporánea and The Global Sixties.
His current research project is an intellectual and political history of the idea of poverty in contemporary Uruguay (1943-2010). As part of this project, he was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, during 2019. Also in line with this, he contributed to the creation of the IJD at the University of the Republic (UdelaR). He has published several articles on this topic and hopes to begin writing a book next year entitled: Between the search for well-being and the fight against poverty. An intellectual history (local-global) of the social question in contemporary Uruguay (1943-2010).
He has also continued his research on the Latin American left in the 20th century and on the recent history of Uruguay in this context. Since 2023, he has been directing, together with Diego Sempol, the research program of the Study Group on the Left (CSIC) (2023-2027). He has just published El tiempo no para. Historia, crisis y futuro para pensar proyectos de izquierda (Time Does Not Stop: History, Crisis, and Future for Thinking About Leftist Projects) together with Vania Markarian. This is an essay of historical reflection that, based on current changes, reviews present historical temporality and the notions of human rights created in the democratic cycle that began with the democratic transitions of the 1980s in the Southern Cone. He is also currently writing Historia mínima de las izquierdas latinoamericanas en el siglo XX (A Brief History of the Latin American Left in the 20th Century) for the publishing project Historias mínimas (Brief Histories) by El Colegio de México