María Inés Tato holds a PhD in History from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). She is Independent Researcher of of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council – Argentina (CONICET) at the Institute of Argentine and American History “Dr Emilio Ravignani”, UBA/CONICET. Founder and coordinator of the Group of Historical War Studies (GEHiGue) at that Institute. She is Associate Professor at the Political Sciences degree of the Faculty of Social Sciences - UBA, and the Master in War History – Superior War School –Army Faculty – National Defense University (UNDEF). Here research área includes the study of the reception of Nazism in Argentina; the Argentine right during the interwar period; nationalism and national identities; the social and cultural history of the First World War in Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas War.
Besides numerous articles and book chapters published in Argentina and abroad, she is author of Viento de fronda. Liberalismo, conservadurismo y democracia en Argentina, 1911-1932 (2004) and La trinchera austral. La sociedad argentina ante La Primera Guerra Mundial (2017), and coeditor of Del Centenario al peronismo. Dimensiones de la vida política argentina (2010); Las grandes guerras del siglo XX y la comunidad española de Buenos Aires (2014), La Gran Guerra en América Latina. Una historia conectada (2018), Guerras del siglo XX. Experiencias y representaciones en perspectiva global (2019), La cuestión Malvinas en la Argentina del siglo XX. Una historia social y cultural (2020) and The Global First World War. African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators (forthcoming).