PhD, Cornell University
Federico Finchelstein is Senior Faculty Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University in Exile Research Professor and Professor of History at The New School for Social Research in New York City. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University.
Professor Finchelstein is the author of eight books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His books have been translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish.
Finchelstein's books have also received 80 reviews in academic journals. They were also reviewed in newspapers and media such as The Washington Post, Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Clarín, La Nación & La Voz del Interior (Argentina), La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera, Avvenire, Messaggero, Il Manifesto (Italy), Milenio (Mexico), El País and ABC (Spain) and El País (Uruguay).
Professor Finchelstein has been a contributor to major American, European, and Latin American newspapers and media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Clarin (Argentina), Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil), Domani Giornale (Italy), Corriere della Sera (Italy), Politico, Mediapart (France), The Guardian (UK), CNN, Foreign Policy, The New Republic and Reuters.
Selected publications
- The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy (University of California Press, new revised edition, 2026) Portuguese, 2024: Turkish, & Spanish editions 2025. As audio book: English (Recorded Books).
- Fascist Mythologies. The History and Politics of Unreason in Borges, Freud, and Schmitt (Columbia University Press, 2022) Italian and Portuguese editions 2022; Korean edition forthcoming
- A Brief History of Fascist Lies (University of California Press, 2020). Portuguese Edition, 2020; Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Hungarian, 2021, Korean, 2022; Paperback edition with new preface, 2022.
- From Fascism to Populism in History (University of California Press, 2017 & 2019 with new preface). (Spanish edition, Taurus, 2018; Italian edition, Donzelli, 2019: Turkish edition Iletisim Yayinlari, 2019: Portugese edition, 2019.)
- The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Current research project(s) and/or publication(s)
Fascism and Populism; Fascism and the Authoritarian Personality; a History of the Concepts of Caesarism and Dictatorships in Latin America and Europe; Antisemitism; the work of Marie Langer, Hannah Arendt, Leopoldo Lugones and Jorge Luis Borges; Fascism and Latin American Literature.
