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Dr. Claudia Kedar | Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies
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The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501

 

Department Head: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisor for BA Students: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Literature MA Studies: Prof. Ruth Fine, ruth.fine@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Historical MA Studies: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisors for PhD Students: Prof. Ruth Fine (Literature), Prof. Aldina Quintana (Languages and Linguistics) and Dr Claudia Kedar (History)

Students Exchange Advisor: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

 

For administrative matters, please contact

Dina Belostotsky
dinab@savion.huji.ac.il
Tel. 02-5883616
Room: 45404
Office hours: Sun., Mon., Wed., Thur., 10:00-13:00.

 

Dr. Claudia Kedar

Claudia
Dr.
Claudia
Kedar
Department Head
M.A. & PhD advisor (History)
Room: 6620 (Humanities), Office hours: By appointment (set via email)
02-5883847
claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Website
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Research Interests: The history of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and their relations with Latin America and the U.S.; the Cold War in Latin America; the Washington Consensus and neoliberalism in Latin America; U.S.-Latin American relations; contemporary Argentina and Chile

PhD in History (2009, Tel-Aviv University). Claudia Kedar was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Leonard Davis and Lady Davis postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University. Her book, "The International Monetary Fund and Latin America. The Argentine Puzzle in Context" (Temple University Press, 2013), received an honorable mention from the 2014 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award (LASA). She has published in leading journals like the Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Cold War History, Journal of International History and Journal of Financial History.

Among others, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary History and member of the Academic Committee of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Her current research project examines the role played by the World Bank during the Cold War in the Americas (1945-1989). The project is supported by an Individual Research Grant of the Israeli Science Foundation.

 

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