Mercedes García Ferrari is an assistant professor at the Department of History of Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. Her research work focuses on the history of identification in Latin America. She holds a Master’s in Historical Research from Universidad de San Andrés, where she is currently a PhD candidate in History. She also has studies in photography (NESOP, U.S.). She has been the recipient of a scholarship from the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion (Argentina) and is currently conducting a comparative study on identification in Argentina and Uruguay under a SEPHIS PhD Fellowship from the International Institute of Social History (Netherlands). On the process of expansion of identification systems, she has published the book, Ladrones conocidos/Sospechosos reservados. Identificación policial en Buenos Aires, 1880-1905 (Prometeo, 2010), and several chapters in contributed volumes.
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