CALANDRA Benedetta

Benedetta Calandra is Associate professor of History and Institutions of the Americas at the University of Bergamo, Italy, member of the Phd Teaching Board for Landscape Studies for Local and Global Challenges and in charge of the Selection Committee for incoming non-EU students for the MA Intercultural Studies in Languages and Literatures (ISLLI).
From 2016 to 2018 she has been Associate Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University- School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, and from 2018 to 2021, a member of the Executive Board of Italian Society for International History (SISI).
Her main research interests focus on contemporary History of Latin America, the politics of memory and human rights, Inter-American cultural relations, and cultural cold war.
She has published five books as an author, four volumes as an editor, and articles and book chapters in Spain, the UK, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, Brazil, Israel, the United States, and Chile.
Among her latest publications:
*coed, with F. Jiménez and Lorenzo Delgado, US Public Diplomacy Strategies in Latin America During the Sixties. Time for Persuasion, NY, Routledge, 2024,
*"La Libertad tiene nombre de mujer. Redes internacionales de solidaridad femenina tras el golpe chileno, 1973-1983", Revista EIAL, n. 34, Tel Aviv University, 2023.
* (coed, with Jimenez and Delgado) El americano imposible: Estados Unidos y América Latina: entre modernización y contrainsurgencia (2023),
*“Historia reciente de América Latina como outsider: investigar el pasado cercano de una tierra extranjera”, in: E. Allier, C. Ortega, C. Ovalle (eds), En la cresta de la ola. Debates y definiciones en torno a la historia del tiempo presente, Ciudad de México, UNAM- Bonilla Artigas, 2020.
*Cultural Philanthropy and Political Exile. The Ford Foundation Between Argentina and The United States (2019), Revista Tempo, UFF, Rio de Janeiro, 2019.