Research & Writing

Research & Writing

My research explores the transnational history of authoritarianism, tracing the political, economic, and ideological threads that have linked Europe and Latin America from the 20th century to the present.

I am particularly interested in how far-right movements and authoritarian regimes build legitimacy across borders—whether through formal diplomacy, economic maneuvering, diasporic networks, or the weaponization of historical memory. In addition to my academic work, I regularly engage with broader audiences through media commentary on democracy, populism, and the global rise of the radical right.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

[2019] German economic strategies for Brazil: autarky and ‘extended economic space’ in the 1930s. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (Cambridge University Press).

  • This article examines Brazil as a significant case study within the Third Reich’s autarky plans, uncovering Nazi Germany’s broader strategy for economic hegemony in the Americas before WWII.

[2023] La diplomacia alemana y las violaciones de derechos humanos en el Chile de Pinochet: historia y memoria. Revista Diversidad de las Culturas.

  • A study of the complex friction between German diplomacy and the memory of human rights abuses during the Pinochet dictatorship.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

[2020] Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History. Routledge (New York/London).
Chapter: ‘Long Live the Polarization’: The Brazilian Radical Right and the Uses of the Past under Jair Bolsonaro.

  • An analysis of how the Brazilian far-right weaponizes historical revisionism to sustain contemporary political polarization.

[2020] Mainstreaming the Global Radical Right. Ibidem-Verlag (Germany).
Chapter: Germany’s East and West Divide Fuels the Far-Right.

  • An investigation into how regional disparities in reunified Germany continue to fuel the ascent of the AfD.

[2020] Migrants Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America. Brill (Leiden/Boston).
Chapter: Diplomacy and Ethnicity: Germans in Brazil (1933-1938).

  • An exploration of the tug-of-war between ethnic identity and diplomatic loyalty among German immigrants in Brazil during the rise of National Socialism.