Sergio Infante

Sergio Infante is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at Yale University. His current research examines the relationships between the social sciences, economic development, and antipoverty programs, with a special focus on twentieth-century Latin America. He is writing a history of the “informal sector” and “informal economy” as concepts. His work touches on several themes that concern historians of the recent past, such as transnational migration, population growth, technocracy, democracy, and the Cold War.

 

Sergio received a B.A. in History from Yale College in 2018 and an M.Phil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2019. He is a recipient of the P.D. Soros “New Americans” Fellowship, the Beinecke Scholarship of the Sperry Fund, the Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship, and more recently, the Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award.

 

In 2025, Sergio became an Editor-at-Large of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. His public writing and interviews have appeared in NACLA, Public Seminar, JSTOR Daily, and the Toynbee Prize Foundation website. In the 2026–2027 academic year, he will be a Graduate Fellow of the Yale Agrarian Studies Program. Before enrolling at Yale, Sergio was an editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine.

 

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