UNR historian Sofía Roizarena was recognized for research that debunks myths about the role of women in the Argentine countryside.

Conicet fellow and ISHIR researcher, Sofía Roizarena was awarded the TOYP 2025 Prize. Her work reconstructs the history of women who, a century ago, managed agricultural empires of 45.000 hectares, challenged governors and managed million-dollar businesses, although official history only remembers them for their charitable works.

The image is a classic of national iconography: the rancher, the farmhand, the gaucho. A world of men forging the nation's wealth on horseback. If a woman appeared, she was usually on the ranch's veranda, serving tea or embroidering, detached from the rustic business of the land. However, this picture is incomplete. Behind the scenes of the Argentine Pampas, there were women who not only inhabited the countryside but ruled it with a firm hand.

Recovering these silenced histories is the mission of Sofía Roizarena, a history graduate and CONICET fellow at the Institute of Regional Socio-Historical Research (ISHIR). Her work, which combines archival rigor with a necessary gender perspective, was recognized last Thursday, November 27, during the TOYP 2025 Awards ceremony (Ten Outstanding Young Persons). There, the Junior Chambers of Rosario and Casilda distinguished her in the category of “Leadership and Academic Achievements,” naming her one of the ten outstanding young people in the province of Santa Fe.