Author: Sean Mannion

Photograph of Las Enseñanzas de Quetzalcoatl, a mural by Federico Cantú Garza at the Centro Médico Siglo XXI, Mexico City. Photograph by Jose Juan minime. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/). (Find the original here: https://flic.kr/p/rbP2x.)

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Gabriela Soto Laveaga is professor of the history of science and Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University. Her current research interests interrogate knowledge production and circulation between Mexico and India, medical professionals and social movements, and science and development projects in the twentieth century. You can read her article “Poverty Alleviation from the Margins: Mexico’s IMSS-COPLAMAR as a Challenge to Global Health and Economic Models, 1979–1989” in HAHR 102.4. 1. How did you come …

Interview with Gabriela Soto Laveaga, author of “Poverty Alleviation from the Margins: Mexico’s IMSS-COPLAMAR as a Challenge to Global Health and Economic Models, 1979–1989” Read more »

Havana, Antonio Maceo monument. Photograph by dsa66503. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/). Image was cropped. (Find the original here: https://flic.kr/p/bESz6.)

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Tony Wood is assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Colorado Boulder. His forthcoming book “Radical Sovereignty: Debating Race, Nation, and Empire in Interwar Latin America” (University of California Press) focuses on radical transnational debates on race, class, and the nation-state in Latin America in the 1920s and 1930s, retracing links between Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. He is a member of the editorial board of New Left Review, and his writing has appeared in …

Interview with Tony Wood, author of “Another Country: Cuban Communism and Black Self-Determination, 1932–1936” Read more »

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In his interactive article for HAHR 96:3, Jeffrey A. Erbig Jr. uses geographic information system (GIS) technology to map the dynamic construction of borders in eighteenth-century Río de la Plata as part of a complex negotiation between indigenous caciques, local leaders, and Iberian crowns. Read the article here and follow the links to interactively engage with the GIS maps, which visualize in great detail the efforts of local caciques in relation to these borders. Below are links to the …

GIS maps for Jeffrey A. Erbig Jr., “Borderline Offerings: Tolderías and Mapmakers in the Eighteenth-Century Río de la Plata” Read more »

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Curated by Samantha Davis Thematic Collections are assortments of past and recently released articles in HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion. Each time we move through our towns and cities, we are inundated by sensory input from passing cars to singing birds to signs hanging in windows. With so much to see, hear, smell, and feel, our sensory …

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  Curated by Samantha Davis Thematic Collections are assortments of past and recently released articles in HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion. Rising interest in the Pacific Ocean World has prompted a wave of research connecting the far reaches of the world via maritime routes like the Manila Galleon, though the region remains relatively understudied. Connecting New Spain …

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Paula López Caballero has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropolgy and Ethnography from la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in París, France. She is an research at the Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades at UNAM and a member of the National System of Reseachers (Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores). You can read her article “Domesticating Social Taxonomies: Local and National Identifications as Seen Through Susan Drucker’s Anthropological Fieldwork in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1957-1963” in HAHR 100:2. …

Interview with Paula López Caballero, “Domesticating Social Taxonomies: Local and National Identifications as Seen Through Susan Drucker’s Anthropological Fieldwork in Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1957-1963”  Read more »

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Jesse Horst works for Sarah Lawrence College as director of Sarah Lawrence in Cuba, the longest consecutively running US academic exchange program in Havana. He earned his PhD in Latin American history from the University of Pittsburgh in 2016 and was awarded the University of Pittsburgh’s 2016–17 Eduardo Lozano Memorial Dissertation Award for best doctoral dissertation in Latin American studies. His previous work has appeared in the Journal of Urban History, and he is currently finishing a book manuscript …

Interview with Jesse Horst, author of “Erasing Las Yaguas: Shantytown Networks and Social Reform in the Cuban Revolution, 1944–1963” Read more »

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Ana María Silva Campo is a historian of race, gender, and the law in colonial Latin America. She is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her PhD in history at the University of Michigan and holds a BA in history and romance languages from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. You can read her article “Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal …

Interview with Ana María Silva Campo, author of “Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias” Read more »

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Catherine Komisaruk is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Labor and Love in Guatemala: The Eve of Independence (Stanford University Press, 2013). Currently she is writing a book about native families, migration, and activism in colonial Guatemala and Mexico. You can read her article “All in a Day’s Walk? The Gendered Geography of Native Migration in Colonial Chiapas and Guatemala” in HAHR 100.3.  1. How did you come to …

Interview with Catherine Komisaruk, author of “All in a Day’s Walk? The Gendered Geography of Native Migration in Colonial Chiapas and Guatemala” Read more »

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Alfonso Salgado is an associate researcher at the Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales at the Universidad Diego Portales. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2016. He is developing the postdoctoral project “Prensa de izquierda y gestión empresarial en Chile” (Proyecto Fondecyt de Postdoctorado N. 3190080) and is participating as coresearcher in the research project “Estalinismo y desestalinización: Continuidad y cambio en las generaciones militantes de las Juventudes Comunistas de Chile” (Proyecto Fondecyt Regular N. 1190307). …

Interview with Alfonso Salgado, author of “La batalla por la opinión pública: Radiodifusión y política comunicacional en la vía chilena al socialismo” Read more »