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Elías José Palti has obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. He pursued postdoctoral studies at  El Colegio de México and Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, and the University of Quilmes, Argentina, and as invited professor in Universities from Europe, United States and Latin America. He is also a researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina, and has been recently appointed as the director of the Center for Intellectual History, at the University of Quilmes. He is the author of fourteen books. His latest book is An Archaeology of the Political. Regimes of Power from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Columbia UP, 2017). He published more than a hundred articles, which have appeared, in six languages, in nineteenth different countries. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas. In 2009, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, among other prices and fellowships.

His main fields of research are: Latin American Intellectual History. Modern European Intellectual History. Historical Theory. Cultural History.