Academic position: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Department: Americas
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Website: Dr Patricio Simonetto
Biography:
Patricio Simonetto is a Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Fellow at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê specialized in intersections between the history of health, medicine, and sexuality. He is the author of Entre la injuria y la revolución. El Frente de Liberación Homosexual en la Argentina (UNQ, 2017) and El dinero no es todo. La compra y venta de sexo en la Argentina del siglo XX (Biblos, 2019) [a translation of this book will be published in 2024 by the University of North Carolina Press). His new book A Body of One’s Own. A Trans* History of Argentina (1900-2012) is forthcoming by the University of Texas Press in fall 2023. He was awarded the Carlos Monsivais Prize from the Latin American Studies Association.
Research Projects:
- A History of Trans Health and Technology in Argentina
- New Project: Seropositive Revolutions. How HIV+ and LGBT Communities Revolutionised Health Care in Latin America
Teaching:
- AMER000085: Latin American and Latinx Sexualities