Professor Pryluka is a historian of modern Latin America and the world, with interests at the intersection of economic, social, and environmental history. His current book project, Developing Consumers: A History of Wants and Needs in Postwar South America, shows how developmental policies to modernize material life reshaped the region in the postwar decades by altering perceptions of welfare and material needs.

Before joining City College, Professor Pryluka received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, where his dissertation won the Herman E. Krooss Prize for best dissertation from the Business History Conference and was shortlisted for the Economic History Society’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Research Cluster on Global History. His research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission, the Hagley Museum and Library, the John W. Hartman Center at Duke University, as well as the Program in Latin American Studies and the Cotsen Endowment for the Humanities at Princeton University.

In addition to his academic work, Professor Pryluka writes for public outlets such as Project Syndicate, Phenomenal World, Jacobin, and Public Books, where he engages contemporary issues of economic and political affairs in Latin America.

• Ph.D. Princeton University
• M.A. Princeton University
• M.A. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• B.A. Universidad de Buenos Aires

The Historian's Craft

Modern and Contemporary Latin America

Articles
“Latin America: The Next Transition,” The New Left Review, 149 (2024), 131- 156 (in collaboration with Jeremy Adelman).

“Advertising Pinochet: The Cold War Limits to a Neoliberal Crusade,” The International History Review, 45: 2 (2023), 416-430.

“‘Una futura Heidelberg argentina’: el itinerario de la Fundación Bariloche (1963-1978),” Pasado Abierto, 11:6 (2020), pp. 54-75.

“Consumo y desarrollo en el tercer gobierno peronista,” Latin America in Economic History, 25:1 (2018), pp. 98-135 (in collaboration with Ramiro Coviello).

“Educando a los consumidores: la campaña de Orientación para el Consumidor y las políticas anti- inflacionarias durante la última dictadura en Argentina,” H-Industria, 10:18 (2016), pp. 106-127.

“¿Shock o gradualismo? La influencia del caso chileno (1973-1982) sobre los debates económicos en el campo del liberalismo argentino durante la última dictadura (1976-1981),” Papeles de trabajo, 10:17 (2016), pp. 208-236.

“Growing consumer rights in neoliberal times. The top-down origins of consumer organizations in Argentina between 1978 and 1993,” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 7:3 (2015), pp. 373-388.

Book Chapters
“Mapping Economic Interdependence: Creating the Periphery in the Inter-War Period”, in Jeremy Adelman and Andreas Eckert (eds.), World Products. Making Narratives Across Borders, London: Bloomsbury, 2024 (in collaboration with Jeremy Adelman and Laetitia Laenel).

“Dictadura y reforma económica. Argentina en el nuevo orden internacional,” In Aníbal Jáuregui and Daniel Heymann (coords.), Crisis y planes macroeconómicos en la Argentina, Buenos Aires: Eudeba, 2022 (in collaboration with Guido Zack).

“¿Un plan sin planificación? La política económica de Martínez de Hoz durante la última dictadura militar (1976-1981),” in Marcelo Rougier and Juan Odisio (coords.), Estudios sobre planificación y desarrollo. Buenos Aires: Lenguaje Claro, 2016.

“Las pautas de consumo como problema: resonancias de los debates sobre estilos de desarrollo en las propuestas del Buen Vivir,” in Ana Grondona (coord.), Estilos de Desarrollo y Buen Vivir. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Centro Cultural de la Cooperación, 2016 (in collaboration with Ramiro Coviello).