Maristella Svampa

Maristella Svampa has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and a PhD in Sociology from Paris' École d'Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Researcher at the Conicet (National Center for Scientific and Technical Research), Argentina and Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in Buenos Aires Province.

Dr. Svampa was appointed to fill the Simón Bolivar Chair in Paris (Nouvelle Sorbonne) in 2000. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Kónex award in sociology (Argentina) in 2006.

Dr. Svampa has published and lectured in France, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Bolivia and the United States. Among her most recent books are Los que ganaron. La vida en los countries y barrios privados (The Winners: Life in Country-clubs and Gated Communities) (2001); Entre la ruta y el barrio. La experiencia de las organizaciones piqueteras (Between the Highway and the Neighborhood: The experience of Piqueteros Organizations),/i> (2003, co-authored) and La sociedad excluyente. La Argentina bajo el signo del neoliberalismo (Exclusive society: Argentina under Neoliberalism) (2005). She has published a novel, Los reinos perdidos (Lost Kingdoms) (2005).

 
Maristella Svampa