Eduardo Cavieres

I’m not interested in the past for the past’s sake. I’m interested in the past only to understand the present”.

Eduardo Cavieres, the winner of the 2008 National Award in History, holds a PhD in history from the University of Essex (Great Britain), a master’s degree in history from the University of Madison-Wisconsin (United States) and an undergraduate degree from Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. His research focuses on demographic history and economic and social mentalities and history. For the past few decades, his research has focused on the social history of European and American culture from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

He is the author of over two hundred articles and thirty books, notably El oficio de historiar: entre pasados y futuros (Marcial Pons, 2019), Octubre 2019. Contextos y responsabilidades políticas y sociales. 1989-2019 y más (Eudeval, 2020) and 2020. Persistencia de  las desigualdades, fragilidad de las libertades (Eudeval, 2020).

Currently he is professor emeritus at Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica de Valparaíso; honorary professor at Universidad Austral de Chile; permanent guest researcher-professor at the University Institute for Research in Latin American Studies at Universidad de Alcalá (Spain); and the director of the Spanish-American Integration Program at the Spanish-American Studies Program (PEI*Sur), at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.