Alfonso Salgado

Alfonso Salgado (a.k.a. Alfonso Salgado Muñoz) is a historian of modern Latin America who specializes in the political and social history of his home country, Chile, and, more recently, transnational political networks in the Americas. He obtained his B.A. from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2008) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (2016). His dissertation examined the twentieth-century history of Chilean Communism through the lenses of class, gender, and age to advance a more holistic understanding of revolutionary politics and left-wing activism. During his post-doc he studied a panoply of mass media companies owned by Communists, Socialists, and other left-wing actors in Chile, including a newspaper, a publishing house, and three radio stations. He is now writing a book on the connections and involvement of the Socialist Party of America south of the border, tentatively titled True Socialism or Chaos: American Social Democrats in Cold War Latin America.

His articles have appeared in several Spanish- and English-language journals, including the Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Cold War History, and Gender & History.

You can check his book project, articles, syllabi, and teaching evaluations at alfonso-salgado.com.