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This workshop, open to scholars of any disciplinary background and geographic area, will focus on the challenges of historical work (broadly defined) in police archives. Based on research experiences with documentary collections of different police forces in South America and Southern Europe, it will attempt to discuss the connections between methodological strategies and historiographical problems. Police archives have been used extensively in the history of crime, marginality, state surveillance practices, political policing, and the repression of the labor movement. But they have also been fundamental to urban history, the history of migration, the social history of subaltern groups, and the cultural history of popular consumption. After all this research, should police records continue to be considered "archives of repression" or "archives of terror”?
Speaker Diego Galeano, Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
Biography
Diego Galeano is a Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of History at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has a Ph.D. in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), a Master’s degree in Historical Research at the University of San Andrés (UdeSA), and a Bachelor degree in Sociology at the Nacional University of La Plata (UNLP). His research focuses on the history of the police and transnational crime in Latin America. He wrote the books Escritores, detectives y archivistas. La cultura policial en Buenos Aires, 1821-1910 (National Library, Buenos Aires, 2009) and Delincuentes viajeros: estafadores, punguistas y policías en el Atlántico sudamericano (Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2018). Published in Portuguese in 2016, the latter received the National Research Award in Brazil. He has also published several articles in academic journals and collective books in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Portugal, France and the United States. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at the Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2017), at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Munich Centre for Global History (2019-2020), Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (2022), and at the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) - Princeton University (2024).