World History: Latin America, Digital History, Sports History, Labor History.
Hernán Adasme is a second year History Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant at RRCHNM. He is currently a research assistant on the Death by Numbers project. Hernán received a History Master’s degree from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. His research focuses on the convergence of the Workplace and Modern Sports in early twentieth century Latin America. His research interests include Digital History, Sports and Cultural History, and Labor History as well. He is currently working on Digital History projects that involve the application of text analysis techniques to the study of a large corpus of sporting magazines, and the use of network analysis to study sports communities in central Chile. He has written articles on boxing practice and boxing spectacles in mining towns in Central Chile during the early 20th century.
B.A. in History, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010)
M.A. in History, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (2015)