Sergio Infante

Sergio Infante is a Ph.D. candidate in Global History at Yale University. His research explores how twentieth-century social scientists and intellectuals understood poverty, employment, and economic development, all with a special focus on Latin America. He is writing a history of the “informal sector” and “informal economy” as concepts. This project reconstructs debates over the business savviness, risk-taking behavior, and vulnerabilities of the global poor. It also contextualizes contemporary anxieties over “precarity” and “gig work.” Sergio’s research touches on several themes that concern historians of the recent past, including transnational migration, urbanization, population growth, technocracy, democracy, and the Cold War.

 

Sergio received a B.A. in History from Yale College and an M.Phil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge. 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 the Dean’s Emerging Scholars Research Award.

 

Sergio’s public writing and interviews have appeared in NACLA, Public Seminar, JSTOR Daily, and the Toynbee Prize Foundation website. Before enrolling at Yale, Sergio was an editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine.