Category: Interviews

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 »

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 »