Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires, PhD in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London; Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute of the University of Notre Dame (USA); Visiting Professor in the Department of History of the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor in the History Department of Columbia University, New York. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of San Andrés, where he has also been Director of the Department of Humanities, Vice President and President. He has been appointed Vice President of the National Academy of History. His research and publications focus on the political and institutional history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in the processes of state construction and transformation, and among his published titles are Los liberales reformistas. La cuestión social en la Argentina, 1890-1916 (1995); (ed.), Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (1999); (co-ed.), Los saberes del estado (2012); Las prácticas del estado (2013); Las fuerzas de guerra en la construcción del estado. América Latina, siglo XIX (2013).
