Flavia Macías, PhD
She is a CONICET Associate Researcher (with tenure) specializing in the history of violence in Argentina and Latin America in the 19th century, at the University of Buenos Aires. At the UBA, she researches and teaches at the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr. Emilio Ravignani.” She received her Ph.D at the National University of La Plata (Buenos Aires) and completed two Masters in Latin American Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) – Madrid. Since receiving her doctorate, she has served as a visiting postdoctoral researcher in Spain (CSIC-Madrid), Germany (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Berlín), and in the U.S., at Princeton University as a Fulbright Scholar. She has received grants and scholarships from CONICET, the Carolina Foundation, the Mapfre-Tavera Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation. She recently obtained a grant from the “Maison Européenne des Sciences de L’homme et de la Société (MESHS),” Lille Nord de France, Laboratoire Cecille – Université Lille, with the project “Après-Guerres dans les Amériques”. She also has an extensive teaching career at the graduate and undergraduate level in both Argentina (National University of Tucumán, University of Buenos Aires) and abroad (University of Alcalá de Henares, Autonomous University of Madrid, Complutense University of Madrid, Paris 1 University- Pantheon-Sorbonne)
Her current research project, “Citizens in Arms: Militias and Revolutions in 19th Century Republican Experiments,” explores how various national republican political traditions shared a common experimentation with militias. Taking a global perspective, this research will connect 19th century Latin American and U.S. republican experiences through both the subject of militia and the founding principle of an “armed citizenry.”
Her global research has allowed her to publish numerous articles, book chapters and dossiers on the subject of political violence and militias. She has coordinated “Milicias, levantamientos armados y construcción republicana en Hispanoamérica. Estudios y propuestas para el siglo XIX (Boletín del Ravignani, n°42, Buenos Aires, 2015) and co-directed (with Marta Irurozqui) the Monograph “Otra vuelta de Tuerca. Justicia y violencia en Iberoamérica. Siglo XIX” (Revista de indias, LXXXVI, n°266, Madrid, 2016). She is the author of the book “Armas y política en Argentina, Tucumán, siglo XIX (Madrid, CSIC, 2014) and Co-Director (with Véronique Hébrard) of “Milices et Gardes Nationales latino-américaines dans une perspective atlantique au XIXème siècle (Paris, Les Perséides, 2022).
She is currently working on the book “The duty of enlisting and the right to vote. Argentina 19th century”.