Luis Rene Fernandez Tabio

Researcher from the Centro de Estudios Hemisféricos y Sobre Estados Unidos at the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba

Research Topic:  La Gran crisis económica del 2007-2009 y su impacto en l

Carmen Diana Deere

Dr. Carmen Diana Deere is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies and Food & Resource Economics.  Since 2015, she is Honorary Professor Emerita of the Latin American Facu

James P Brennan

James Brennan specializes in modern Latin American history. Among his interests are industry and labor, the political economy of Latin American populism, the Latin American left, political violence

Nicole Von Germeten

Nicole von Germeten, a professor of Latin American History at Oregon State University, has worked as the Director of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious studies since 2017. 

Andrew Konove

Andrew Konove received his B.A., Magna Cum Laude, with High Honors in History from Haverford College and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from Yale University, where he also received a Gradu

David a West

David A. West (1933–2015) was associate professor emeritus of biological sciences at Virginia Tech and the author of Fritz Müller: A Naturalist in Brazil.

West came to Virginia Tech in 1962 w

Livia K Stone

My research focuses on the intersections between political activism, cultural change, and visual media. I have a particular interest in anti-capitalist, anti-government social movements in Mexico a

Tony Perrottet

The need for perpetual motion has always been Tony Perrottet's most obvious personality disorder. While studying history at Sydney University, the Australian-born Perrottet regularly disappeared hi

Gregg Bocketti

Dr. Gregg Bocketti is Professor of History and Program Director for International Affairs at Transylvania University. 

Bocketti’s research interest is in Latin American hist

Abigail Leslie Andrews

I am Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program at the University of California-San Diego. I am a leader in collaborative, community-action resear

Maite Conde

Maite Conde’s research focuses on Brazilian culture, with a particular emphasis on cinema. Specifically, her work has engaged with questions concerning the relationship between cinema, literature a

Robert Samet

Professor Samet specializes in media, urban violence, and the politics of security in Latin America. A legal and political anthropologist, he has been conducting fieldwork in Venezuela since 2006.

Luis Mart�nez-Fern�ndez

Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández is a historian, university professor, author, consultant and public speaker, whose fields of expertise include Latin America, the Caribbean, education, and Latino / Hisp

Christine Folch

I work on water and energy politics amidst the constraints of the Anthropocene.

My first book Hydropolitics: The Itaipu Dam, Sovereignty, and the Engineering of Modern South America (Princeto

Amy C Offner

Amy C. Offner (Ph.D. Columbia University) studies twentieth-century US history in global perspective, with special focus on Latin America.  Her research and teaching address the history of cap

Lauren Duquette-Rury

Using qualitative and quantitative methods, my research examines the consequences of international migration on democracy, development, citizenship and state-society relations in migrant countries

Rachel Elfenbein

An independent scholar, Elfenbein holds a PhD in sociology from Simon Fraser University and was a Fulbright scholar to Venezuela. She was awarded the Latin American Studies Association’s 2018 Helen

William Wheeler

William Wheeler is an award-winning journalist and producer who has reported on political affairs around Africa and the Middle East,  South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. His work has

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is Samuel N. Harper Professor of History, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the College at the Department of History, The University of Chicago. 

The Univers

Ashley Elizabeth Kerr

Ashley Kerr is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. As an undergraduate, Kerr spent a year living in Valparaíso, Chile. After graduation she taught English in Argentine Pat