Federico Finchelstein holds a PhD in History for the Cornell University and is professor in Eugene Lang College and in the New School for Social Research, where he leads the Janey Program in Latin American Studies. He has also been professor in Brown University (Providence).

Finchelstein is specialist in fascism, populism, dirty war, Holocaust and Jews’ History, in Latin America and Europe, throughout a comparative view. His works have been translated to Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish. In addition to having more than fifty worldwide published academic articles about fascism, populism in Latin America, the relation between History and Political Theory, Cold War, Genocide and Antisemitism, he also collaborates in prestigious newspaper and media such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Clarín, El País, Politico, Folha de S. Paulo, Corriere della Sera, El Diario, Mediapart, Reuters and the CNN. Among his published works, it is mandatory to mention A Brief History of Fascist Lies (2020), From Fascism to Populism in History (2017), El mito del fascismo. De Freud a Borges (2015), The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War. Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in twentieth century Argentina (2014), Transatlantic Fascism. Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945 (2010) and La Argentina Fascista (2008). He has also edited Authoritarian Intellectuals and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America (with Antonio Costa Pinto, 2019).