Oscar Aponte

PhD Student, Latin American History

Ph.D. student in Latin American history specializing in Colombia. T.A. in the history department at the City College of New York. Co-Chair of the Colombian Studies Group.

Contact

917-443-9336

Academic Interests

History of the public sphere, nation-building and state formation in twentieth-century Latin America, Latinx studies, connected/transnational history, critical theory, labor history and sociology.

Education

Ph.D. Student, Latin American History – The Graduate Center, CUNY.

M.A. in History – Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia).

B.A. in Sociology – Universidad Nacional (Bogotá, Colombia).

Publications

Aponte, Oscar. The Making of a Modern Newspaper: El Tiempo in Colombia, 1911-1940, Palabra Clave [forthcoming].

Mosquera, C., Aponte, O., Garcés, S. y López, S. (2017). Trabajadores, recuperación de fábricas y neoliberalismo en Colombia (1995-2015). Revista Colombiana de Sociología 40 (2), 237-254.