Natalia Milanesio | Department of History
Natalia Milanesio
Professor of History
Phone: (713) 743-3113
Email: nmilanesio@uh.edu
Office: 565 Agnes Arnold Hall
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Born and raised in 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, consumer culture, women鈥檚 history, history of sexuality, popular culture, food studies, gender analysis, and working-class history.
Research Interests
Prof. Milanesio鈥檚 current project is a history of violence against women in twentieth-century Argentina.
Selected Publications
Books:
- El destape. La cultura sexual argentina despu茅s de la dictadura (Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2021).
- Destape: Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Post-dictatorial Argentina (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019).
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Winner of the Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 2020 Bolton-Johnson Book Prize for Best book in English on Latin American history
- Winner of the 2020 Best Book in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Southern Cone Section
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Winner of the 2020 Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) Judy Ewell Award for Best Publication on Women鈥檚 History
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2020 Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Honorable Mention for the best book on a Latin American subject
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Workers Go Shopping in Argentina: The Rise of Popular Consumer Culture (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013).
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Winner of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies (RMCLAS) Thomas McGann Book Award for the best book published in 2013.
Winner of the 2015 Book Prize in the Social Sciences by the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
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Cuando los trabajadores salieron de compras. Nuevos consumidores, publicidad y cambio cultural durante el peronismo (Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2014).
- Winner of Argentina鈥檚 Academia Nacional de la Historia 2017 Honorable Mention for Best History Book published in 2014-2015.
Articles:
鈥漇ex and Democracy: The Meanings of the Destape in Postdictatorial Argentina,鈥� Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 99, No. 1, February 2019, 91-122.
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Winner of the 2020 Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Judith Lee Prize that recognizes the best article in the field of history.
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Winner of the 2020 Kimberly S. Hanger Article Prize awarded by the Latin American & Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Southern Historical Association
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鈥淢asculinities, Consumption, and Domesticity under the Per贸n Era,鈥� in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, edited by William Beezley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).
鈥淐onsumo y peronismo,鈥� in Atlas del Peronismo, edited by Pablo Stancanelli (Buenos
Aires: Capital Intelectual/Le Monde Diplomatique, 2019), 28-31.
鈥淒escamisados, Divitos y mucamas. La vestimenta como expresi贸n de estereotipos y ansiedades
de clase durante el peronismo鈥� in Pasado de moda. Expresiones culturales y consumo
en la Argentina, edited by Susan Hallstead and Regina Root (Buenos Aires: Edhasa,
2017), 188-200.
Editor 鈥淟a historia del consumo en la Argentina moderna,鈥� Dossier Programa Interuniversitario de Historia Pol铆tica No. 90, October 2016,
鈥淎 Man like You: Juan Domingo Per贸n and the Politics of Attraction in Mid-Twentieth-Century Argentina,鈥� Gender and History, Vol. 26, No. 1, April 2014, pp. 84-104.
鈥淭he Liberating Flame: Natural Gas Production in Peronist Argentina,鈥� Environmental History, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2013, pp. 1-24.
Winner of the 2013 Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History given annually by the American Society of Environmental History (ASEH).
鈥淔ood Politics and Consumption in Peronist Argentina,鈥� Hispanic American Historical Review. Vol. 90, No. 1, February 2010
Winner of the 2011 Sturgis Leavitt Award given annually by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).
Translated into French as 鈥淟a politique alimentaire et la consommation dans l鈥橝rgentine p茅roniste,鈥� IdeAs. Id茅es d'Am茅rique 3, 2012. http://ideas.revues.org/425
鈥淧eronists and Cabecitas: Stereotypes and Anxieties at the Peak of Social Change鈥� 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).
鈥淭he Guardian Angels of the Domestic Economy: Housewives' Responsible Consumption in Peronist Argentina,鈥� Journal of Women鈥檚 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.
鈥淩edefining Men's Sexuality, Re-Signifying Male Bodies: The Argentine Law of Anti-Venereal Prophylaxis, 1936,鈥� Gender & History, Vol. 17, No. 2, August 2005, 463-9
鈥淕ender and Generation: The University Reform Movement in Argentina, 1918,鈥� Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter 2005, 505-29. Special Issue 鈥淜ith and Kin: Interpersonal Relationships and Cultural Practices鈥� edited by Richard Ivan Jobs and Patrick McDevitt.
鈥淒el poblado precario a la ciudad opulenta: Representaciones del pasado urbano y debate historiogr谩fico en la d茅cada de 1920 en torno al surgimiento de Rosario鈥漣n Beatriz D谩vilo et al. eds., Territorio, memoria y relato en la construcci贸n de identidades colectivas (Rosario: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2004), 293-303.
鈥淟a ciudad como representaci贸n. Imaginario urbano y recreaci贸n simb贸lica,鈥� Anuario de Estudios Urbanos 2001 (Azcapotzalco, M茅xico: Universidad Aut贸noma Metropolitana, 2001), 15-33.