Professor Paulo Drinot

Biography

Paulo Drinot studied economic history at the London School of Economics as an undergraduate and an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a DPhil in Modern History at Oxford. He was co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Studies (2014-2018). 

Research Summary

Paulo Drinot's main research focus is the history of Peru in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His thematic interests include labour history and state formation, racism and exclusion, gender and sexuality, the social history of medicine, and memory and historiography. He is currently working on a biography of José Carlos Mariátegui, a project supported by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Teaching Summary

Undergraduate: 

AMER0074 History and Politics of Latin America, c. 1930 to the Present

AMER0070 Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary

Postgraduate Taught:

AMER0040 The Making of Modern Latin America: History, Politics and Society

AMER0008 From Silver to Cocaine

AMER0027 Histories of Exclusion: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America

Research Supervision:

Professor Drinot welcomes applications from students interested in PhD research in the following areas:

• Labour and working-class history 
• History of gender and sexuality 
• History of race and ethnicity 
• History of medicine and public health 
• History of commodities 
• Historiography 
• Memory and memorialization 
• History of state formation 
• History of social policy

Current supervision:

• Daniela Belmar Mac-vicar: Love experiences and expectations of men and women in Santiago de Chile (1880-1940)
• Emilia Curatola Fernández, Working-Class Art and Poetry in Peru: The Grupo Intelectual Primero de Mayo (1956-1980).
• Fernando Gutiérrez H.: Memory, Attachment and Appropriation of Public Space in Historical Urban Areas in Mexico (joint primary supervisor with Prof Ann Varley).
• Remy Roberts: Postmemory and Political Action: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Argentina and Guatemala (joint primary supervisor with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Marieta Valdivia Lefort: State Project and Education: the construction of national identity and the legitimation of an europeanising memory in Chile (primary supervisor)

Completed PhD students:

• John Lawrence: Explaining the compliance behaviour of listed corporations in Peru confronted by a new governance code (secondary supervisor with Dr Néstor Castañeda)
• Sacnicté Bonilla Hernández: New Peasantries in 21^st-Century Mexico: The Defence and Adaptation of Rural Life by Campesinos (secondary supervisor with Dr Graham Woodgate) 
• Mercedes Crisóstomo: Women in the Peruvian Revolutionary Left: Militancia and Post-Militancia in Cuzco and Ayacucho (primary supervisor)
• Sarah Fearn: Finding Voice at Last? Institutional Continuity and Change and Indigenous Politics in Peru (subsidiary supervisor - with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Sam Kelly: Ethnicity, Race, and Racism in Contemporary Peruvian Politics: Elections, Stereotypes and Public Images (subsidiary supervisor - with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)
• Phoebe Martin: Visual and Embodied Politics: Activism and the Contemporary Feminist Movement in Peru (primary supervisor with Professor Jelke Boesten, KCL)
• Carmen Sepulveda Zelaya: The Legal and Political Battles Behind the Distribution of Emergency Contraception in Chile under Ricardo Lagos (2000-2005) and Michelle Bachelet (2006-2010) (subsidiary supervisor - with Professor Maxine Molyneux).
• Daniel Willis: The Testimony of Space: Exploring Sites of Violence and Memory in Peru's Internal Armed Conflict (primary supervisor)
• Maria de Vecchi Gerli: Enforced Disappearances in Mexico (joint primary supervisor with Professor Kevin Middlebrook)

Selected media appearances

• Paulo Drinot's NBn interview on his latest book: 'The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru 1850s-1950s'. Listen to the interview on NBn (New Books Network) Latin American Studies | July 29, 2020

• Paulo Drinot: Una nueva manera de pensar la historia obrera del Peru. Interview for Peru's leading radio network RPP TV programme 'Ampliacion de Noticias' (in Spanish) | June 27 2016

• 'El Arriero' entrevista a...Paulo Drinot. Interview and talk for Peru's digital broadcaster 'La Mula' (in Spanish), on the topic of Professor Drinot's book 'La Seduccion de la Clase Obrera: Trabajadores, Raza y la Formacion del Estado Peruano' (2016, IEP) | June 20, 2016

• Paulo Drinot on 'The Great Depression in Latin America'. Keynote lecture delivered at the inaugural Geopolitical Economy Research Group Conference. Watch video here | September 2015

• Paulo Drinot on 'La América Latina de Eric Hobsbawm'. Jueves Historiográficos lecture series at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú (in Spanish). Watch video here | November 19, 2014

More staff media appearances here.