Enrique Tandeter
Noé 'Enrique Tandeter' was an Argentinian historian and author who studied colonial Latin America. He taught at various schools, including the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires.
Education and career
Tandeter studied history at the University of Buenos Aires, graduating in 1969. He earnt his doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France. His thesis was on mining in the 18th and 19th centuries in Potosí, Bolivia. He left Argentina after the 1976 coup d'état, only returning in the 1980s. In 1992, Tandeter published Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosi. It and its subsequent English-language translation were given the Hebert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize by the Conference on Latin American History in 1993 and the Premio Iberoamericano Book Award by the Latin American Studies Association in 1995.In Argentina, Tandeter worked as a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, where he also worked for the as the director of its Latin American history program, and as the director of the French-Argentinian Center of Higher Studies. He worked as a visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France, the University of London, the University of Chicago, the International University of Andalucía, and, from 1999 to 2000, was the Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin-American Studies at Cambridge.
He also worked as a principal investigator for National Scientific and Technical Research Council, a director at the General Archive of the Nation.