James Cane Carrasco

James Cane Carrasco is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in modern Latin American history with a focus on Argentina, intellectual history, and media history. He is affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Latin American intellectual history, Cold War history, and post-independence historiography.

• Education: Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

His research explores the intersection of journalism, politics, and economic transformation in 20th-century Argentina. His 2012 book The Fourth Enemy analyzes the restructuring of Argentina's commercial newspaper industry during the Great Depression and its role in shaping Peronist power. Current projects include an intellectual history of Latin America during the early Cold War.

Carrasco's publications span topics like media ownership, state intervention in journalism, and cultural politics in 1930s–1945 Argentina, including contributions to edited volumes such as Prensa y peronismo. His work combines archival analysis with broader historiographical debates.

He regularly offers graduate seminars on Latin American historiography and teaches courses on the region's Cold War history and independence processes. Carrasco's office is located in Dale Hall Tower, Norman, Oklahoma.