Provvidente Sebastián

SEBASTIÁN PROVVIDENTE (Ph. D. EHESS- Università di Roma III, Paris-Rome, 2010) is a Fellow of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and Professor of History of Political Thought at the National Pedagogical University (UNIPE) in Buenos Aires. He studied History at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and after graduating, he worked abroad for 3 years in a Marie Curie Early Stage Training project (2006-2009) sponsored by the European Commission and organized by  the London School of Economics (London), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris),  the Max Plank Institut für Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurkt am Main) and  the Istituto di Scienze Umane (Florence). In the context of this project, he obtained a double Doctorate (= Ph. D) in Histoire et Civilisations (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris) and Dottorato di ricerca in diritto europeo su base storico-comparatistica (Università di Roma III, Rome). Upon his return to Argentina he conducted Postdoctoral studies (2010-2012) at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and taught History of Political Thought at the University of Buenos Aires (2010-2021). In 2015 he became a tenured researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council and in 2022 he joined the Humanities and Art Department of the National Pedagogical University teaching History of Political Thought. After graduation, he has also taught Humanities and History at Pepperdine University  and New York University (Buenos Aires International Programs) where he also worked as Assistant Director for Academic Programs in 2019. He has been visiting scholar in France, Germany, the United States and Chile.  His research interests have focused on Late Medieval Ecclesiology and Political Thought, Civil and Canon Law.  He has published on Fifteenth Century Conciliariarism, Legal Procedure and Medieval heresy.