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Raúl Necochea López is an associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of A History of Family Planning in Twentieth-Century Peru (University of North Carolina Press, 2014) and coeditor of Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020). You can read his article “Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia” in HAHR …

An interview with Raúl Necochea López, author of “Dra. Edelmira Will See You Now: Cancer Care and Informal Healing in Early Twentieth-Century Colombia” Read more »

Joan Flores-Villalobos is an associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD in African diaspora history from New York University. Her first book, The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal, was published in 2023 with the University of Pennsylvania Press in and won multiple awards. You can read her article “‘Our Country’: Extractive Colonialism and Labor in the Essequibo Borderland” in HAHR 105.4. Interview by Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles 1. What inspired …

An interview with Joan Flores-Villalobos, “‘Our Country’: Extractive Colonialism and Labor in the Essequibo Borderland” Read more »

Raúl Alencar, who has a PhD in history from Tulane University, specializes in early modern maritime trade, with a focus on Spanish America. His research examines transatlantic and transpacific trading networks between Spain, France, and their colonies, exploring the intersections of commerce, social connections, and material culture. You can read his article “Strangers in the Promised Land: Jenízaros, Foreigners, and the Perils of Trade in Colonial Peru, 1750–1764” in HAHR 105.4. Interview by Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles 1. What inspired you to explore …

An interview with Raúl Alencar, author of “Strangers in the Promised Land: Jenízaros, Foreigners, and the Perils of Trade in Colonial Peru, 1750–1764” Read more »

Damian Clavel is a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione postdoctoral fellow at the University of Zurich and author of the recently published Financing Sovereignty: The Poyais Scandal in the Early Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. Susanna B. Hecht is professor of international history at the Geneva Graduate Institute and professor of planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose books include Fate of the Forest: …

An interview with Damian Clavel and Susanna B. Hecht, authors of “Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821” Read more »

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 …

An interview with Sarah Walsh, author of “Hero’s Legacy: Martial Strength and Race in Republican Chile” Read more »

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 »