Dr. Gustavo Guzmán is a historian in antisemitism and Jewish history in Latin America. He is currently a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate) at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. He holds a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University (2021), where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Raanan Rein.
His first book, Attitudes of the Chilean Right toward Jews: From Acceptable Undesirables to Respected Businessmen (Brill, 2022), examines how diverse right-wing actors in Chile related to Jews across the twentieth century, challenging the tendency to focus exclusively on the far right. His forthcoming monograph, Allende, Pinochet, and the Jews (Routledge, 2026), explores the place of Jews in the political imaginaries of Chile’s rival Cold War regimes.
Dr. Guzmán’s research has been recognized with the Robert Wistrich Prize for Postgraduate Research in Antisemitism from the Vidal Sassoon International Center (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and scholarship awards from the Stephen Roth Institute and the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry (Tel Aviv University). His current work examines the postwar return migration of Holocaust survivors from Latin America to West Germany.