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Elizabeth Jelin

Elizabeth Jelin is Senior Researcher at CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnicas of Argentina), and at IDES (Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social) in Buenos Aires. She is Professor at the Doctoral Program in the Social Sciences, IDES-UNGS (Universidad Nacional de Gral Sarmiento). She is a member of the Academic Board of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her research work is in the fields of human rights, memories of political repression, citizenship, social movements, gender and the family. Her books include Los trabajos de la memoria (2002 with new edition in 2012) (published in English as State Repressions and the Labors of Memory), Fotografía e identidad (2010) (Photography and Identity), Pan y afectos (Bread and love, 2010). She has been a Visiting Professor at numerous universities and a member of many international academic boards, including Social Science Research Council, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Institute of Labor Studies at the ILO, and the ISA. In 2013, she was awarded the highest prize for scientific achievement in Argentina, the Bernardo Houssay National Prize for her Research Trajectory in the Social Sciences.