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Santiago Bestilleiro Lettini

Santiago Bestilleiro Lettini is a historian of Latin America. His work focuses on the dialogue between political, economic, and environmental history in the Río de la Plata region. Santiago’s dissertation, The Greater Pampas, analyzes the transformation of the transnational grasslands that today cover eastern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil in the long 19th century. His research primarily explores how views of the prairie's landscape were shaped by notions of “resource” and “potential productivity” as well as by ideas of “progress” and “civilization.” Santiago is from Buenos Aires, and before coming to Georgetown, he earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in History from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.