Daniel Gunnar Kressel

Daniel Gunnar Kressel specializes in the history of transnational right-wing ideologies and networks in Latin America, Spain, and Israel.

Trained as a historian of Latin American and International history at Columbia University, he is particularly interested in the mythological thinking underpinning the political theories of neo-fascist movements during the Cold War.

His book, Hispanic Technocracy: Turning Fascism into Catholic Authoritarianism in Spain, Argentina, and Chile (Cambridge University Press, 2025), examines the “Hispanic” cosmology that underlies Latin America’s neoliberal turn of the 1970s. At the Koch History Centre, he is designing a new book project on Opus Dei – a transnational Catholic society that operated as a coordinated ideological agent in Latin America and had a conspicuous influence on right-wing politics there since the 1960s.