Pablo Palomino
Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
I am a cultural historian of 20th-century Latin America, trained as Licenciado at the University of Buenos Aires (my hometown) and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been postdoctoral lecturer (2015-2017) at the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies and History Department, before arriving to Oxford College of Emory as Mellon Faculty Fellow in Interdisciplinary Humanities (2017-2020).
I wrote The Invention of Latin American Music: a Transnational History (Oxford University Press, 2020; La invención de la música latinoamericana: una historia transnacional in Spanish, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021). In Buenos Aires, I worked at Memoria Abierta, Latin America's first Oral History Archive on state terrorism and political violence. My publications focus on the history of music, Pan-Americanism, the Jewish musical diaspora, modernist press in Argentina, and the problematic concept of "Global South."
Currently, I am working on two global histories of the 20th century: a co-edited volume with Yuiko Asaba (University of London SOAS) on the musical exchanges between Asia and Latin America, and a monograph on the global history of Argentine meat.
Education
PhD| University of California, Berkeley| 2014
BA| Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)| 2005
Courses Taught
Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean; Latin American Music and Globalization; Food and the History of Globalization
Publications
The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
La invención de la música latinoamericana: una historia transnacional. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021
- [Forthcoming] “Jews and Music in 20th-Century Latin America,” Encyclopedia of Jews in Latin America, vol. 5, Brill (Leiden-Boston), 2026.
- “Latin America, Musically,” Latin American Research Review, 2025
- “A indefinição é o regime: a América Latina na globalização musical, séculos XX e XXI,” in Giselle Venancio and Mariana Tavares (Orgs.) Americanidades: etnografias historiográficas, Fino Traço, Rio de Janeiro, 2025
- “The Poetics of Golden Age Tango,” in Kacey Link and Kristin Wendland (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Tango, Cambridge University Press, 2024
- Book review of Lisa Rofel and Carlos Rojas, eds., New World Orderings: China and the Global South, Sinotheory (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023), Passés Futurs 14, 2024
- “Revolutionary Music from War to Peace: Mexico, 1910s-1930s,” in Martin Guerpin, Anaïs Fléchet, Phillipe Gumplowicz, and Barbara Kelly (eds.), Music in Post-War Transitions (19th-21st centuries), Berghahn Books, 2023
- “Discomforts of a Latin Americanist,” Forum on Global Music History, Journal of Musicology 40:3, Summer 2023
- “Categories and Contexts. A Response to Esteban Buch and Vera Wolkowicz,” Monde(s). Histoire, Espaces, Relations 23, 2023 (France)
- “Becoming a Professional Historian in ‘Interesting Times’,” in Adventure, Inquiry, Discovery: CLIR-Mellon Fellows and the Archives - Proceedings from the CLIR-Mellon Fellows Reunion Symposium, 2023, p. 96-8.
- “‘Europa’ en los orígenes del latinoamericanismo musical,” Eadem utraque Europa. Revista de Historia Cultural e Intelectual 21, Buenos Aires, 2020, p. 139-155
- “On the Disadvantages of ‘Global South’ for Latin American Studies,” Journal of World Philosophies 4:2, Winter 2019
- “Nina Sibirtzeva, or the hidden half of musical globalization,” Journal of Social History 52:2, Winter 2018
Presentations
- “El comercio anglo-argentino de chilled beef y el Acuerdo de Londres de 1933: invernadores e imperio en la historia global de la carne argentina,” Conferencia: 200 años del Tratado entre Gran Bretaña y las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata (1825-2025), Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, April 2025
- Co-organizer with Thomas Rogers and Lia Bascomb (GSU-GALACSI) of the Greater Atlanta Interdisciplinary Symposium, “Histories of Commodities and the Environment,” Emory University, February 28, 2025
- “Carne Argentina: History and Historiography of a Global Hyper-Commodity,” Revisiting Commodities in Latin American History: Cultural and Political Dimensions, American Historical Association / Conference on Latin American History, New York City, January 2025
- “The Poetics of Golden Age Tango, Then and Today,” Tango in the Humanities Conference, Emory University, November 2024.
- “Meat, nation and empire. Towards a global history of Argentine beef,” Dirty History Seminar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, October 2024
- “L'Amérique latine et la mondialisation de la culture,” Coloquio Internacional “La construcción de las relaciones internacionales desde las Américas Latinas,” Sorbonne Nouvelle, Aubervilliers, France, May 2024
- “The Beef’s Two Bodies: A Study in Twentieth Century Anglo-Argentine Meat Culture,” Panel The Body in Latin American History, American Historical Association, San Francisco, January 2024
- “Notas sobre la historia de la circulación musical entre América Latina y Asia,” 2˚ Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza y Producción de las Artes en América Latina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), octubre 2023
Research Interests
Latin America; 20th-century Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico; Asia-Latin America relations; global and transnational histories of music, meat, trade, diasporas, football, and ideas. Several of my publications are available on academia.edu