Lucas Fernando Volpintesta Romay

Lucas standing in a navy suit in front of a library bookshelf labeled Australia, Early America, and U.S. Politics.
lvolpintesta@g.harvard.edu

Lucas is a PhD Candidate who joined Harvard during the Fall of 2023. A historian by training, he researches the genealogy and uses of Argentinian decline discourses throughout Argentina's modern history. 

Lucas holds a six-year undergraduate degree in History from the University of Buenos Aires, as well as an MA in History in the Public Sphere awarded by a consortium of universities (Central European University; Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), having graduated summa cum laude from both programs.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he has studied and lived in München, Budapest, Tokyo, Vienna, Firenze, Lisbon, and Fayetteville. He has taught at multiple levels, from primary school to university, and has worked as a public historian in museum curation, oral history, and documentary making. His research and education have been supported by several institutions, including the Fulbright Program, Erasmus Mundus, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Gulbenkian Museum, and Blinken Open Society Archives.