Maria Damilakou (mariadamilakou@yahoo.gr, mariadam@ionio.gr) is assistant professor at the Department of History of the Ionian University of Greece, where she teaches History of the American Continent. She also teaches History of Latin America at the Open University of Greece. She has participated in several research projects that concern immigration and labor in Latin American countries. Since 2001 she is member of the archive A.P.I.M. (Archivo de Palabras e Imágenes de Mujeres/ Women’s Words and Pictures Archive), which is attached to the Gender Studies Institute of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Buenos Aires (U.B.A.). She has written chapters in collective volumes and several articles about immigration, labor history and historiography in Latin America. She is author of two books (in Greek): Greek Immigrants in Argentina: Processes of Construction and Transformations of a Migrant Community, 1900-1970 (2004) and History of Latin America from the End of Colonialism up to Today (2014).
Monographs/books (in Greek):
Greek Immigrants in Argentina: Processes of Construction and Transformations of a Migrant Community 1900-1970, Athens, Historical Archive of the Commercial Bank, 2004.
History of Latin America from the End of Colonialism up to Today, Athens, Aiora, 2015 (2nd ed.):
Publications (among others):
“Inmigrantes griegos en Buenos Aires: el caso de los golosineros”, Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, 48, Agosto 2001, 329-368.
with Mirta Lobato and Lizel Tornay, “Belleza femenina, estética e ideología. Las reinas del trabajo durante el peronismo”, Anuario de Estudios Americanos, 61:1 (2004) 233-277.
“Immigration and urbanization: The settlement of European immigrants in the city of Buenos Aires (1880-1920)”, Μnemon 26 (2004) 95-131 (in Greek).
“Greek refugees from Minor Asia to Argentina: Migration stories and identity”, Istorika 42 (July 2005) 177-202 (in Greek).
with Mirta Lobato and Lizel Tornay, “Las reinas del trabajo bajo el peronismo”, in: Mirta Lobato (ed.), Cuando las mujeres reinaban. Belleza, virtud y poder en la Argentina en el siglo XX, Buenos Aires, Biblos, 2005, p. 77-120.
“Greek Migrant Communities in Central and South America”, in I. Hasiotis, O. Katsiardi and E. Ambatzi (ed.), Greeks in Diaspora, 15th-21th c., Athens, Greek Parliament, 2006, p. 291- 300.
“Migración, comercio y moral en los márgenes del mundo salitrero. Oficina Chacabuco, 1924-1940”, Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos 62 (2007) 85-128.
“Historia, memoria nacional y política en los festejos del Bicentenario en la Argentina y México”, Cuadernos del Sur – Historia 38 (2009) 167-180.
“Politics of public memory: The ‘Dia de la Raza’ in Latin America and the narrative of Spanish conquest”, Ionios Logos 2 (2010) 187-220 (in Greek).
“The idea of Latin America and a proposed narrative of its history, in: Maria Damilakou (ed.), Themes and Tendencies of contemporary Latin American historiography, Athens, EMNE Mnemon, 2010, p. 9-80 (in Greek).
with Mirta Lobato and Lizel Tornay, “Working-Class Beauty Queens under Peronism”, in: Matthew B. Karush and Oscar Chamosa (eds.), The New Cultural History of Peronism: Power and Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Argentina, Durham, Duke University Press, 2010, p. 171-207.
“Del Mediterráneo a Sudamérica: el lugar y la contribución de los inmigrantes del Sur de Europa en los relatos nacionales de los pueblos del Cono Sur americano”, en: E. Pandís Pavlakis (επιμ.), América Latina y El Mediterráneo: Ideas en contacto, Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 2011, p. 274-281.
“Migration and Ocean Liners”, in: Katerina Papakonstantinou (ed.), Ship posters, Athens, Melissa, 2011, p. 111-214.
“Estrategias de supervivencia en un mundo laboral conflictivo: los prácticos del puerto de Buenos Aires, 1856-1924”, Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales 5/6 (Noviembre 2012-2013) 69-78.
with Lina Ventouras, “Discourses on Latin America: The Migration-Development Nexus”, in: Lina Ventouras (ed.), International “Migration Management” in the Early Cold War: The Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration, University of the Peloponnese, Corinth, 2015 p. 293-312.
“Inmigración griega en la Argentina”, Todo es historia, special issue, 609, Αgosto 2018.
“From the Black Sea to the Pampas: The Migratory Movements to South America, 1870-1917”, in: Maria Christina Chatziioannou and Apostolos Delis (ed.), Linkages of the Black Sea with the West. Navigation, Trade and Immigration, Rethymnon, Centre of Maritime History/ Institute for Mediterranean Studies – Foundation of Research and Technology, 2020, p. 93-128.
“Labor Policy and Diplomacy: Argentina’s Labor Attachés under Peronism”, Historein, Global Labour: Perspectives from East to West, from North to South, Vol. 19, No 1 (2020).
“Traces of Greek immigrants in the North of Chile: Documents on Greek immigration in the nitrate towns (1900-1940)”, Ionios Logos, 7, 2020 (in Greek).
