Alberto Harambour is an Associate Professor at the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Universidad Austral de Chile. He holds a degree in History from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in History from the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

As a researcher, he has addressed problems of social history and the labour movement of the early twentieth century in Chile, the formation of Latin American states in their border areas, and the colonialist violence of the South American republics. 

Dr. Harambour is presently leading the project “The State and market on the frontiers of civilization. Transnational histories of postcolonial colonialism in South America (1870s – 1940s)”.