Former Kellogg visiting fellow Edward Brudney (Spring 2024), associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has published a new article in The Oral History Review.
His piece, “Individual Life Histories and Emblematic Memories: Conducting Oral Histories in Post-Conflict Argentina” (August 2025), examines how personal narratives intersect with collective memory in the aftermath of Argentina’s most recent dictatorship (1976–83). Drawing on interviews with a prominent trade union leader accused of collaborating with the regime, Brudney shows how denial, silence, and self-presentation reveal both the politics of memory and the power dynamics embedded in oral history research.
This project took shape during his visiting fellowship at Kellogg, where he advanced a larger agenda on labor, law, and citizenship in late twentieth‑century Argentina. The article contributes not only to memory studies in Latin America but also to critical methodological debates about the challenges of conducting oral history in highly charged political contexts.