Sergio Pujol

Sergio Alejandro Pujol (born 1959) is a historian, writer and essayist. He is a research fellow at CONICET and a critic specialising in Argentine popular music. Pujol was born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1959. He has been a senior lecturer in 20th-century history for more than two decades at the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication at the UNLP, and has also been a member of the scientific research staff at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) since he was very young. In 2007, he was awarded a diploma of merit by the Konex Foundation in recognition of his work in music research and journalism.