Mauricio Sergio Chama

Mauricio Sergio Chama holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP), a Master of Arts in Social Sciences (FLACSO-Buenos Aires), and Bachelors Degree in Sociology (Universidad de Buenos Aires). He is currently an adjunct professor of General Sociology and Classical Social Theory I at the Career of Sociology, School of Humanities and Educational Sciences (UNLP), where he also teaches postgraduate courses in the area of social theory. He is currently Vice-Dean of that academic unit. He is a Category III Researcher of the Research Incentives Program and co-directs the project “Contributions to rethinking the trajectory of the ‘New Left’ (1955-1976): Strategies, ruptures and regroupings.” He has published several articles in books and national and foreign academic journals in social sciences, on topics related to Argentina’s recent past and the relations between history and memory, as well as essays on sociological theory. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Sociohistorical and Sociological Issues.

Project title: Los estudios sobre la memoria del pasado reciente argentino. Debates intelectuales, preocupaciones politicas e iniciativas institucionales en la conformación de un nuevo campo en las ciencias sociales
Period of the stay: February-March 2016
CEIC supervisor: Gabriel Gatti
Home institution Departamento de Sociología, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
Grants: Subsidio de viajes, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)

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