Claudia STERN

Claudia Stern recently finished her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, where she currently serves as Cultrice della materia.

Dr. Stern earned both her PhD in History (2016) and her MA in Cultural Studies (2008) from Tel Aviv University, Israel. During her postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Research (IPAZ), Universidad de Granada, Spain (2016), she focused on the ethnic aspect of her research on immigrants and the Chilean middle classes. As a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, she began new research on the metamorphosis of middle-class gender identities through cultural trauma. In 2019, as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and the Center for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CSMCH), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, she adopted an urban approach in her current research on trauma.

She is a Research Associate and permanent lecturer at the CEIHVAL Latin American Center for the History of Housing, part of the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty at Universidad de Buenos Aires, FADU-UBA. Dr. Stern was awarded a visiting professorship on the Postgraduate Program at the Institute of History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (first semester, 2022). Dr. Stern also worked as External Researcher on the Fondo de Apoyo a la Investigación Patrimonial fund, run by the Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural (FAIP), which is part of the Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio Chile 2023, where she contributed to the digitalization of humanities.

She is author and co-editor of The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies Routledge, published in 2022 as part of the Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas series. A Spanish version has also recently been published in a two-volume book titled Clases medias en América Latina: subjetividades, prácticas y genealogías. Liberalismo, trabajo y política, I and Clases medias en América Latina: subjetividades, prácticas y genealogías. Guerra fría, Neoliberalismo y movimientos sociales, II by Universidad del Rosario and UAM Cuajimalpa, 2023, as part of the Tierra Firme collection.

Her book titled Entre el cielo y el suelo: las identidades elásticas de las clases medias (Santiago de Chile, 1932-1962) , published by RiLeditores in 2021, was awarded the 2022 AILASA Prize for the Best Monograph. (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=589224466547506&id=100063798745932)

She recently published the book Cartas para Pepo: intimidad, género y clase (Chile, siglo XX). Emociones y espacio en la vida del dibujante René Ríos Boettiger (Bogotá-Guadalajara: Editorial Universidad del Rosario; Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, 2025), that is based on a collection of Pepo's personal letters and it delves into his sensibilities, affect, and intimacy establishing a connection with the autobiographical tone of his artistic production, his intersubjectivity, and his agency. By intertwining gender relations, daily life and class experience, it traces the history of Chile through the illustrator’s pen over the course of the 20th century.

Her latest book also part of her research at Ca' Foscari is titled Condoriencuentros: emociones, trauma y memoria (Chile, pasado y presente) (Bogotá-Guadalajara: Editorial Universidad del Rosario; Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara, 2026).