Natalia Milanesio
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (713) 743-3113
- Email: nmilanesio@uh.edu
- Office: 565 Agnes Arnold Hall
A native of Argentina, Natalia Milanesio completed her
undergraduate studies at the National University of Rosario. She
received her M.A. in history from New York University and her Ph.D. in
history from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research has been
supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council
of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American
Historical Association.
Teaching
Prof. Milanesio's teaching interests include modern Latin America, twentieth-century Argentina, Peronism, populism, mass consumption, mass culture, identity formation, modernization, popular mobilizations, food studies, gender analysis, and working-class history.
Research Interests
Prof. Milanesio is currently revising a book manuscript on how mass consumption--which emerged from a process of industrialization, populist politics, urbanization, and a fairer distribution of the national income--transformed mid-twentieth century Argentina. With equal attention to politics, material culture, and cultural representations, Prof. Milanesio's research is a comprehensive analysis of the relations between consumers, consumer goods, manufacturers, advertisers, and the state during Juan Domingo Perón's first and second governments (1946-1955).
Selected Publications
- “Cabecita Negra” in Diccionario del Peronismo edited by Samuel Amaral and Carolina Barry (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Forthcoming, 2011)
- “Food Politics and Consumption in Peronist Argentina,”Hispanic American Historical Review. Vol. 90, No. 1, February 2010.
- “Peronists and Cabecitas: Stereotypes and Anxieties at the Peak of Social Change” in The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina, edited by Matthew Karush and Oscar Chamosa, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
- “Urban Space and Peronism in Argentina” (Review Essay), Journal of Urban History, Vol. 34, No. 6, September 2008, 1064-69.
- “The Guardian Angels of the Domestic Economy: Housewives' Responsible Consumption in Peronist Argentina,” Journal of Women’s History, Vol. 18, No. 3, September 2006, 91-117. Special Issue on Material Culture and Consumption edited by Clare Crowston with comments by Victoria De Grazia.
- “Redefining Men's Sexuality, Re-Signifying Male Bodies: The Argentine Law of Anti-Venereal Prophylaxis, 1936,” Gender & History, Vol. 17, No. 2, August 2005, 463-91
- “Gender and Generation: The University Reform Movement in Argentina, 1918,” Journal of Social History, , Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter 2005, 505-29. Special Issue “Kith and Kin: Interpersonal Relationships and Cultural Practices” edited by Richard Ivan Jobs and Patrick McDevitt.
- “Del poblado precario a la ciudad opulenta: Representaciones del pasado urbano y debate historiográfico en la década de 1920 en torno al surgimiento de Rosario”in Beatriz Dávilo et al. eds., Territorio, memoria y relato en la construcción de identidades colectivas(Rosario: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2004), 293-303.
- “La ciudad como representación. Imaginario urbano y recreación simbólica,” Anuario de Estudios Urbanos 2001 (Azcapotzalco, México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2001), 15-33.
