Daniel James is a British historian educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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, where he received his doctorate in 1979. He is an expert in Peronism

Peronism

Peronism , or Justicialism , is an Argentine political movement based on the programmes associated with former President Juan Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón...

 and the working class in Argentina

Argentina

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. Dr. James is renowned in Argentina as a result of his expertise, interpretation and analysis of the Peronist government. His book Resistance and Integration is a landmark in the study of Peronism. He is also an expert in women's and working class labor struggles in Latin America.

James was born in Shepperton, England, a suburb of London. He is the son of Morgan and Claribel James. His father was a factory worker and World War II veteran who fought for the Allied Forces as a member of the Welsh Guard in the British Army. He was captured by Nazi forces and imprisoned in Poland before being freed by Russian forces toward the end of the conflict. His mother was a long-time operator at Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios

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He has taught at Cambridge University, Yale

YALE

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 and Duke University

Duke University

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. Since 1999 he has occupied the Bernardo Mendel Chair in Latin American History at Indiana University

Indiana University

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. For his lifelong work, James was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

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James splits his time between Bloomington, Indiana and Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has three children with his wife Lynn DiPietro (retired), an expert in ESL Studies at Yale, Duke and Indiana Universities.

List of works

• Resistance and Integration: Peronism and the Argentine Working Class, 1946-1979. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. (Co-editor with John French)
• Doña María's Story: Life History, Memory, and Political Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.