Professor Cane-Carrasco is an historian of modern Latin America who specializes in the history of Argentina, intellectual history, and history of the media. His book The Fourth Enemy: Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 1930–1955 (Penn State, 2012) examines the economic, legal, and political transformation of the Argentine commercial newspaper industry in the wake of the Great Depression. His other publications include "`Trabajadores de la pluma: Periodistas, propietarios y estado en la transformación de la prensa argentina, 1935–1945”, in Liliana Da Orden y Julio César Melón Pirro (eds), Prensa y peronismo. Discursos, prácticas, empresas (1943–1958), and articles on cultural politics in 1930s Argentina. He primarily teaches courses in History and IAS on Latin American intellectual history, the region’s Cold War history, and the process of independence in Spanish and Portuguese America, as well as regular graduate seminars on the recent historiography of Latin America since independence. He is currently at work on an intellectual history of Latin America in the early Cold War.
