Infante

Sergio Infante

PhD Candidate in Global History, Yale University
Chapter Member: Connecticut SSN

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About Sergio

Infante's research focuses on labor and economic development. His current book project chronicles debates over precarious and informal employment from the 1960s to the present. It also touches on themes that concern historians of the recent past, including transnational migration, gig work, population growth, technocracy, democracy, and the Cold War. Infante was formerly an editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine. For his work, he has received the P.D. Soros “New Americans” Fellowship, the Beinecke Fellowship of the Sperry Fund, and the Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship, among others.

In the News

Opinion: "Brazil Falters in Public Health Leadership," Sergio Infante, The North American Congress on Latin America, July 2, 2020.
Opinion: "India’s Coronavirus Migration Crisis," Sergio Infante, JSTOR Daily, June 17, 2020.
Opinion: "Popcorn Populism," Sergio Infante, BRINK, February 18, 2018.

Publications

"Review of Durba Mitra, 'The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism against Authoritarianism'" Intellectual History Review (2026): 1-3.

Reviews Durba Mitra's The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism against Authoritarianism.

"Review of Sebastián Edwards, 'The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism'" H-LatAm (2024).

Reviews Sebastián Edwards's The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism.