Pilar Pérez is a Professor and PhD in History, graduated at the National University of Buenos Aires. She works as Professor in History at the National University of Río Negro (Patagonia). She is also a Researcher for the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research at the IIDYPCa, Bariloche. Her main lines of work deal with the past and present of the Mapuche people; the privatization of public land; the history of armed and police forces in Patagonia; and the relation between archive, hegemonic history, and memory. She is a member of the Red de Investigadorxs en Genocidio y Política Indígena en Argentina since 2005. This network brings together research, activism and communication on the Indigenous topic in Argentina and works on the acknowledgement and reparation of the Genocide perpetrated against Indigenous peoples of the country. She has published both collective and individual books, such as Archivos del Silencio. Estado, indígenas y violencia en Patagonia central, 1878-1941 (Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros, 2016). She is also a radio host and producer, a screenwriter and actress.

For more information about Professor Pérez, click here.