Sergio Infante

Sergio Infante is a Ph.D. student in Global History. His research focuses on the relationship between the social sciences and antipoverty programs in twentieth-century South 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 economic development, poverty, unemployment, population growth, labor migration, 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. Before enrolling at Yale, Sergio was an editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine.