Department of History
The University of Houston
524 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-3003
(713) 743-3083

Faculty and Staff

Natalia Milanesio
Assistant Professor

Natalia Milanesio

 

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 (2001) and her Ph.D. in history from Indiana University, Bloomington (2009). 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, race, food studies, gender analysis, and working-class history.

 

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Research Interests

Prof. Milanesio’s current project explores the history of racial ideas in modern Argentina.

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Selected Publications

Book:

  • Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, Forthcoming 2013).

Articles:

  • “Cabecita Negra” in Diccionario del Peronismo edited by Samuel Amaral and Carolina Barry (Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Forthcoming, 2012)
  • “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.

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