Pilar Pérez

Pilar Pérez is Professor of History at the National University of Río Negro and Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council at the IIDYPCa, Bariloche. She has authored two books — Archivos del silencio. Estado, indígenas y violencia en Patagonia Central 1878-1941 (Prometeo Libros, 2016) and ¿Quién mata a Lucas Muñoz? Versiones sobre la vida, desaparicion y muerte de un policía rionegrino (Teseo, 2019). In addition, she has edited or coedited two other books, including the recently published El papel del archivo. Políticas e historias de la documentación pública y privada en Nor-Patagonia (2022), authored over a dozen book chapters, and authored or co-authored more than 25 journal articles.

Her research has focused on the past and present of the Indigenous Mapuche people, the privatization of public land, and the campaigns by the military and security forces against Indigenous peoples in Patagonia, which Professor Perez has argued constitute genocide.