José Manuel Castro

José Manuel is interested in political and intellectual history of Latin America in the 20th century, with emphasis on the ideological conflict during the Latin America’s Cold War. José Manuel’s thesis examines the intellectual foundations of revolutionary changes experienced in Chile between 1964 and 1980 from global perspective. 

José Manuel holds a ‘Becas Chile’ scholarship, awarded by the Chilean Government’s National Agency of Research and Development.

PhD

Supervisors: Nicola Miller (primary supervisor) and Thom Rath (secondary supervisor) 
Working title: ‘Intellectuals, politics and ideology in the era of revolutions. Chile 1964-1980’
Expected completion date: 2023

Publications

• Castro, J. M. (2023). Jaime Guzmán, Gremialismo, and the Ideological Origins of the 1980 Constitution. Estudios Interdisciplinarios De América Latina Y El Caribe, 33(2), 25-46.
• ‘La Unidad Popular ante la historia: un panorama historiográfico’, in Punto y Coma, N° 2 (Santiago: 2020).
• Historia de Chile 1960-2010. 6 vols. Santiago: CEUSS/Universidad San Sebastián, 2016-2019 (co-author).
• Jaime Guzmán. Ideas y política 1946-1973. Corporativismo, gremialismo, anticomunismo. Santiago: Centro de Estudios Bicentenario, 2016.

Conference papers and presentations

• ‘Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Latin America. The political project of Pinochet’s dictatorship’, Symposium The Rise and Fall of Chile’s Authoritarian Democracy (1970-2020) (Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 2021).
• ‘Pensar la reforma universitaria: intelectuales, universidades y cambio social en el Chile de los años 60’, 10th Conference of Studies on Ideas (Santiago: University of Santiago, University of Valparaiso, 2020). 
• ‘Jaime Guzmán y la redacción de la Constitución de 1980’, VII Congress Jurists and Constitution writing (Santiago: Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2020). 
• ‘La Democracia Cristiana frente a la Unidad Popular’, International Congress 50 years of the Popular Unity government (Mexico: Colegio de Mexico, 2020). 

Fellowships

• Awarded the 2022-2023 Cold War Archives Research Fellowship