Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez is a permanent researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Históricas Antropológicas y Culturales (CIHAC-AIP) in Panama City. He is the recipient of the Lewis Hanke Postdoctoral Prize (2025), awarded by the Conference on Latin American History, and the Clara E. Lida Prize (2024), awarded by the Asociación Latinoamericana e Ibérica de Historia Social for the best doctoral dissertation in Latin American social history. You can read his article “Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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: …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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