Sarah Walsh is lecturer in history at the University of Melbourne. She received her PhD in Latin American history from the University of Maryland, College Park. She specializes in the history of human difference (race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality) in Latin America, with an emphasis on the role that science and memory play in identity construction. You can read her article “Hero’s Legacy: Martial Strength and Race in Republican Chile” in HAHR 104.3. Interview by Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles 1. What got you …

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Julia Madajczak is an assistant professor of history at the University of Warsaw, in Poland. She has participated in and directed numerous research projects regarding the Mexican Nahua language, culture, and history. She edited and coauthored Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library: A Lost Manuscript (Brill, 2021) and coauthored Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl (De Gruyter, 2020). You can read her article “Nahua Fasting in a Series of Don’ts: An Interpretation of the Precontact …

An interview with Julia Madajczak, author of “Nahua Fasting in a Series of Don’ts: An Interpretation of the Precontact Nezahualiztli Practice” Read more »

Javier Fernández-Galeano is historian of twentieth-century Argentina and Spain. He has published Maricas: Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982 (2024), along with articles in the Radical History Review, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the Latin American Research Review, among others. Mir Yarfitz is an associate professor in the Department of History and the director of Jewish studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work …

An interview with Javier Fernández-Galeano and Mir Yarfitz, authors of “Serious Maricas and Their Male Concubines: Seeking Trans History and Intimacy in Argentine Police and Prison Records, 1921–1945” Read more »

Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy and the representation and appropriation of this knowledge by the public. Among her books are Astronomía, literatura y espiritismo: Camille Flammarion en América Latina (2022) and Lo que auguran los astros: Espectáculos, maravillas y catástrofes en la prensa chilena (1868-1912) (coauthored with Lorena B. Valderrama, 2021). Patricio Leyton Alvarado researches science publics, the relationship between laymen and experts, and the circulation and appropriation of scientific knowledge. He is coauthor of Una …

Interview with Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz and Patricio Leyton Alvarado, authors of “Astronomy and Politics in Chile: The Role of Friedrich Ristenpart, Director of the National Astronomical Observatory, in the Dissemination and Popularization of Science, 1909–1911” Read more »

Andrew Nickson is honorary reader in public management and Latin American studies at the University of Birmingham and lead trainer at the United Nations Service Staff College on Decentralised Governance and Peacebuilding. He is coeditor of The Paraguay Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2013), author of the chapter “El régimen de Stroessner: 1954–1989” in Nueva Historia del Paraguay (2nd ed.; 2020), and author of Historical Dictionary of Paraguay (3rd ed.; 2015), in addition to recent academic articles on Paraguay. You …

Interview with Andrew Nickson, author of “Great Britain and the War of the Triple Alliance: The Lincolnshire Farmers Colonization Scheme to Paraguay and the Fourth Ally Thesis” Read more »

Marc Becker is the author of Contemporary Latin American Revolutions (2022), The CIA in Ecuador (2021), The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (2017), Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador (2011), and Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (2008), among other works. He is also coeditor of Transnational Communism across the Americas (2023) and editor and translator of The Latin American Revolutionary Movement: Proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, …

Interview with Marc Becker, author of “The Complex Dynamics of Indigenous Education in Mid-Twentieth-Century Ecuador as a Theater for Political Debate” Read more »

Kristen Block is an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she specializes in the cultural history of the early modern Atlantic and Caribbean worlds. Her current book project examines intercultural ideas and practices of holistic healing in the early modern Hispanophone, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean. You can read her article “Remedios for Relationships: Social Precarity and Amatory Therapeutics in the Early Circum-Caribbean” in HAHR 104.2. Interview by Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles 1. How did you come …

Interview with Kristen Block, author of “Remedios for Relationships: Social Precarity and Amatory Therapeutics in the Early Circum-Caribbean” Read more »

Alejandro Quintero Mächler is a research scholar and lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University. His interests revolve around nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual and cultural history, and his book Perder la cabeza en el siglo XIX: Ensayos sobre historia de Colombia e Hispanoamérica was published in 2023. You can read his article “Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s …

Interview with Alejandro Quintero Mächler, author of “Autopsy, Patrimony, and a Christianized Reforma: Manuel Ramírez Aparicio’s Mexican Conventual History, 1861–1862” Read more »

Pedro Jimenez Cantisano is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. He holds an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School and an MA and a PhD in history from the University of Michigan. His work focuses on sociolegal histories of cities and public health in Latin America. You can read his article “A Refuge from Science: The Practice and Politics of …

Interview with Pedro Jimenez Cantisano, author of “A Refuge from Science: The Practice and Politics of Rights in Brazil’s Vaccine Revolt” Read more »