Rolando Álvarez

Degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts with mention in History (1978)
• Master of Arts with a specialty in History of Latin America (1979)
• Master in Philosophy, specialties History of the Southern Cone; Colonial Latin America and France between 1789 and 1914 (1983)
• Doctor in Philosophy, mention History (1991) by the University of Yale

Activity:

• National History Award (2016).
• Director of the Doctorate Program in History of the University of Santiago de Chile and Academic Performance of the Department of History of the University since the eighties, teaching in different national and foreign Universities.
• He is part of the Scientific Committee of the Historia magazine and the Editorial Committee of LOM, as the person in charge of the History Collection of this last publishing house.
• He has been a manuscript evaluator for the Duke University Press (2013) and the Oxford University Press (2014), and he has been a member of the Humanities Committee of the CNA since 2013.
• Among the books he has published and edited, as author and co-author, who work Trabajos and rebeldías in la pampa salitrera (Editorial University of Santiago, Santiago, 1998), Chileans all? The social construction of the nation (1810-1840) (LOM Ediciones, Santiago, 2009), the two volumes of His revolution against our revolution (LOM Ediciones, Santiago, 2006 and 2008) and the five volumes of Contemporary History of Chile in co-authorship with Gabriel Salazar (LOM Ediciones, Santiago, 1999-2002).
• Some of the articles of his authorship that opened and advanced in different historiographical discussions are "Homeland or class? The Pacific War and the reconfiguration of popular identities in contemporary Chile" (Scientific and Technological Contributions No. 116, University of Santiago de Chile, Santiago, 1997) "Social question or political issue? The slow politicization of the popular Tarapaca society towards the end of the century (1889-1900)" (History No. 30, Institute of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 1997) and "The labor transition in the nitrate nitrate" (History No. 25, Institute of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 1992).