Latin America

Tomás Bartoletti is a Senior Lecturer at the Chair for History of the Modern World of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He is currently Principal Investigator for the project "Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations, c...

Pablo Pryluka is a modern Latin American and global historian interested in the intersection of economic, social, and environmental history. At the Weatherhead Center, he will be working on his book manuscript: “Developing Consumers: A History of Wants...

I am a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and a visiting doctoral student at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). My current research focuses on the study of income and wealth inequality and political conflict, the...

Adriana Chira is a scholar of law and land tenure in rural societies shaped by slavery and its afterlives. Her first book, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge University Press, 2022), explores how in a part of...

Alexander Geelen is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social History and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focuses on the regulation of mobility in the Dutch colonial overseas empire of the eighteenth century. In his sub...

André Roberto de A. Machado is a professor in the Department of History in UNIFESP – Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil and member of LabMundi/USP. Between 2007 and 2009 he carried out postdoctoral research in CEBRAP – Centro Brasileiro de Análise...

Israel G. Solares received his PhD in 2018 from El Colegio de México. He has been a Visiting Researcher and Research Associate at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. Born in a marginal neighborhood in Mexico City...

Marcelo Ferraro has a degree in Law, History and Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he was also granted a masters degree and is currently a PhD candidate in the Social History program. His previous research on architecture and...

Felipe Rodrigues Alfonso has a Bachelor's Degree in History at the University of Sao Paulo with partial completion at the University Paris-Sorbonne IV, a Master's Degree in Social History at the University of Sao Paulo, and is currently a PhD Candidate at...

Dr. Edwin Ackerman uses comparative-historical methods to understand how political identities form and become operative. He has studied this process in two contexts: political party formation in Latin America, and the historical trajectory of debates over...