Dr Eleonora Natale is a lecturer in International History at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. She has a great deal of experience being a political scientist and ethnographer and her previous work has focused particularly on military issues in Argentina. Broadly her research interests focus on political violence and transitional justice in Argentina, the Falklands/Malvinas War, and military families. She is interested in ethnographic methods, the production and use of oral sources, and the challenges of conducting empirical research on conflict and the military.
Dr Natale is especially interested in exploring the ‘everyday dimension’ of military life, particularly the social and family spheres. She spent 18 months doing fieldwork in Buenos Aires where she interviewed former officers of the Argentine dictatorship (including those now in prison for crimes against humanity) their wives and adult children.
Previously to her role at King's College London, she has taught International Relations at Durham and Keele University and also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship Universidad Nacional De San Martín in Buenos Aires, where she researched the Argentine involvement in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War.
Email: eleonora.natale@kcl.ac.uk
Research Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/eleonora-natale