Oswaldo Cruz at a microscope in the Manguinhos laboratory, observed by his son Bento Oswaldo Cruz and by Burle de Figueiredo, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, 1910. Public domain / Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oswaldo_Cruz_ao_microsc%C3%B3pio_em_laborat%C3%B3rio_de_Manguinhos,_observado_por_seu_filho_Bento_Oswaldo_Cruz_e_por_Burle_de_Figueiredo,_Casa_de_Oswaldo_Cruz_(BR_RJCOC_02-10-20-15-004-010).jpg

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 …

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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.)

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 …

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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.)

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 …

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En su artículo interactivo del HAHR 96:3, Jeffrey A. Erbig Jr. utiliza tecnología de sistema de información geográfica (GIS) para mapear la construcción dinámica de fronteras en el Río de la Plata del siglo XVIII como parte de una negociación dinámica entre caciques indígenas, lideres locales y coronas ibéricas. Lea el artículo aquí y siga los enlaces para interactuar con los mapas de GIS, que visualizan en gran detalle los esfuerzos de los caciqeues locales en relación con estas …

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

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. …

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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” Leer más »

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” Leer más »

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 …

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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). …

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Katy Henderson is a senior research adviser with Oxfam America’s US Domestic Program. Previously, Henderson was a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow with the Aspen Strategy Group, which focused on national security and foreign policy through Track II diplomacy. She is an affiliate of the Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello and has worked closely with the Fundación Nicolás Guillén and the Instituto de Historia de Cuba. You can read her article “Race, Discrimination, and the Cuban Constitution of 1940” in …

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