Emiliano TraviesoKing’s College et399@cam.ac.uk |
Emiliano Travieso was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and like most of his countrymen remains passionate about asado (communal, open-woodfire-grilled beef) and the national football team. He is interested in the economic history of the River Plate region, and Latin America more broadly, mainly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as in comparative and global economic history. Emiliano is currently a first year PhD student and a Cambridge International Scholar at King’s College. His PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Gareth Austin and Dr William O’Reilly, examines the development of the River Plate economies (present-day Argentina and Uruguay) in the long nineteenth century, from the boom of the Atlantic slave trade in the region under the Bourbon reforms until the beginning of the First Globalization.
Before coming to Cambridge, Emiliano earned a BA in International Relations and an MA in Economic History from Universidad de la República (Uruguay), where he went on to work as a junior researcher and teaching assistant for five years. He also studied Latin American economies at the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, where he was awarded an Institute for New Economic Thinking award for his essay on the political economy of Argentine industrialization under Perón (1946-1955). In 2015-16 at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge he met some wonderful people, discovered –with great delight– Indian food, and graduated with Distinction from the MPhil in Economic and Social History. His dissertation ‘Coal, Cattle, and Commerce: New Zealand and Uruguay under the First Globalization, 1870-1913’, supervised by Dr Paul Warde, was awarded the 2017 Members History First Prize for the best masters thesis presented to the Faculty of History.