Martin Castro (DPhil. in Modern History, University of Oxford, 2004) is a researcher at CONICET (Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr. E. Ravignani”, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and professor at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He has been a visiting researcher at the Latin American Centre (University of Oxford, 2011) and at Universidad del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia), and a visiting professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina). His research has focused on the history of political Catholicism in Argentina and on the relationship between party politics and parliament in early twentieth century Argentina.
He is author of El ocaso de la república oligárquica: Poder, política y reforma electoral 1898-1912 (Buenos Aires, 2012) and co-editor of Católicos y política en América Latina antes de la Democracia Cristiana (1880-1950) (Buenos Aires, 2019). Among his recent publications are “Sites of power, instruments of public intervention: the Palace of Congress and the construction of federal power in Argentina, 1880-1916”, (Parliaments, Estates and Representation, 2017) and “Escepticismo, irreverencia y reformismo: las imágenes del parlamento argentino en la caricatura y el ensayismo (1880-1912)”, Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas, 2019)
He has recently edited the dossier "Parliamentary politics and the Argentine Catholics in Argentina. 19th and 20th Centuries", including his article "Peticiones, movilizaciones y cultura parlamentaria: los católicos argentinos y el Congreso (1899-1914)", and has an upcoming article on Estanislao Zeballos and fin de siècle parliamentarianism in the journal Pasado Abierto.