Latin American Studies

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Though the scholarly study of Latin America, a region of 20 countries and over 569 million people, is not new, the bringing together of various disciplinary approaches according to a single geographic region represents a fairly recent shift. Latin American Studies includes a vast range of disciplinary perspectives, including history, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science. Area studies in general have proliferated in the latter half of the twentieth century and Latin American Studies in particular has been propelled forward as a distinct field of study by major international changes, such as the end of the Cold War. As the field continues to grow, to shape and be shaped by global politics, scholars are faced with an ever-increasing amount of new information. Scholars must constantly consider new discoveries, new interpretations, and new theoretical ideas in the field. The multidisciplinary nature of Latin American Studies makes it particularly challenging to stay informed about every applicable area. A great deal of this work has moved online with the most recent scholarship, research, and statistics appearing in online databases.

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Editor in Chief

Ben Vinson is Provost and Executive Vice President at Case Western Reserve University and the President-Elect of the Conference on Latin American History. Formerly a professor of history and Dean of Arts and Sciences at The George Washington University and the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, he received his PhD from Columbia University, and his AB from Dartmouth College. He has also taught at Barnard College and Penn State University. His books include Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2001); Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004); Afromexico (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2004); and, with Herbert Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2007), and Black Mexico: Race and Society from Colonial to Modern Times (University of New Mexico Press, 2009) co-authored with Matthew Restall. He also edited Africans to Spanish America (University of Illinois Press, 2012) with Sherwin K. Bryant and Rachel Sarah O’Toole. Vinson has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the National Humanities Center, the Social Science Research Council, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation.

 


AREA EDITORS

Fordham University
St. John’s University
Amherst College
Emory University
 

FORMER EDITORIAL BOARD

Brown University
 

FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD

CIDE
Brown University
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Yale University
Latin American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
University of Oxford
Duke University
Barnard College
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Pennsylvania State University
 

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTORS

* = recently published

 

Cities

Bridget Chesterton
Buffalo State, SUNY
David Sowell
Juniata College
Fernando Degiovanni
CUNY Graduate Center
Fernando J. Rosenberg
Brandeis University
Edgardo Pérez Morales
University of Southern California
Arturo Almandoz Marte
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Edgardo Pérez Morales
University of Southern California
John T. Way
Georgia State University
Arturo Almandoz Marte
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Arturo Almandoz Marte
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Universidad Simón Bolívar
Cristina Mehrtens
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Fernando Atique
Federal University of São Paulo
Aiala Levy
University of Chicago
Brodwyn Fischer
Northwestern University

 

Economics and Development

Angus Wright
California State University, Sacramento
Miguel Reyes Hernández
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla
Miguel Alejandro López López
Paul Gootenberg
Stony Brook University, State University of New York
Humberto Morales Moreno
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Miguel Reyes Hernández
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla
Amos Megged
University of Haifa
José Ragas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Fabrício Prado
The College of William & Mary

 

Gender and Sexuality

Júnia Ferreira Furtado
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Florence E. Babb
University of Florida
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Carleton University
Florence E. Babb
University of Florida
Susie Porter
University of Utah
Susan M. Socolow
Emory University
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison
The University of New Mexico
Carmen Diana Deere
University of Florida

 

Important Persons

Iván Jaksic
Stanford University
Lawrence A. Clayton
The University of Alabama
Benjamin T. Smith
Joel Wolfe
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Peter Sorensen
Daniel Hellinger
Webster University
Tara Daly
Marquette University
Irina Feldman
Middlebury College
Jorge Camacho
University of South Carolina
Jeffrey Shumway
Brigham Young University
Samuel Amaral
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Diana Reigelsperger
Seminole State College
Eric Paul Roorda
Bellarmine University

 

Literary Studies

José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra
University of Houston
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Rice University
William Luis
Vanderbilt University
David William Foster
Arizona State University
Graciela Montaldo
Columbia University
Ignacio López-Calvo
University of California, Merced
Michael J. Horswell
Florida Atlantic University
Leonora Simonovis
University of San Diego
Javier Sanjinés C.
University of Michigan
Ilan Stavans
Amherst College
Juan Carlos Grijalva
Assumption College
O. Hugo Benavides
Fordham University
Jill Lane
New York University
Paul B. Dixon
Purdue University
David William Foster
Arizona State University
Rosita Scerbo
Arizona State University
O. Hugo Benavides
Fordham University
Walter D. Mignolo
Duke University
Clara Román-Odio
Kenyon College
J. Sebastián Chavez Erazo
Kenyon College
Martin Austin Nesvig
University of Miami
Juan Pablo Rivera
Clark University
Christina Civantos
University of Miami
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
University of California, Berkeley
Lewis Gordon
Temple University
Viviane Mahieux
University of California, Irvine
Juana Suárez
University of Kentucky
Manuel Gutierrez
Rice University
Luis Duno-Gottberg
Rice University
Irina Troconis
New York University

 

Politics and Public Policy

Marc Becker
Truman State University
Alcira Dueñas
Ohio State University
Renzo Honores
Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad
Rachel May
University of South Florida
Robert Buffington
University of Colorado Boulder
Margarita Bornemann Menegus
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Margarita Bornemann Menegus
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Anne Rubenstein
York University
Kevin Chrisman
York University
John Mason Hart
University of Houston
Brian E. Loveman
San Diego State University
Luis Roniger
Wake Forest University
John D. French
Duke University
Matthew Lymburner
Duke University
Karen Caplan
Rutgers
Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Alex Aviña
Florida State University

 

Pre-history, History, and Historiography

Matthew Restall
Pennsylvania State University
Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
University of Kent
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Fordham University
Penelope Dransart
University of Aberdeen
Joaquín Fernández Abara
Universidad Finis Terrae
Juan Luis Ossa
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Adriana Chira
Emory University
Bridget Chesterton
Buffalo State, SUNY
Juan Luis Ossa
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
David Carey Jr.
University of Southern Maine
Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez
Universidad de los Andes
Karen B. Graubart
University of Notre Dame
María Cecilia Ulrickson
Notre Dame
Rafael Chambouleyron
Universidade Federal do Pará
Michel R. Oudijk
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
J. Michael Francis
University of North Florida
Laura E. Matthew
Marquette University
Camilla Townsend
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kris Lane
Tulane University
David Diaz-Arias
Universidad de Costa Rica
O. Hugo Benavides
Fordham University
Erik Ching
Furman University
Myrna Santiago
Saint Mary's College of California
Ann S. Blum
University of Massachusetts Boston
Stephen Webre
Louisiana Tech University
Betsy Konefal
William and Mary
Elizabeth Kuznesof
The University of Kansas
Diego Armus
Swarthmore College
Courtney J. Campbell
Vanderbilt University
David Garrett
Reed College
Karen Racine
University of Guelph
Charles Beatty Medina
The University of Toledo
Kendall Brown
Brigham Young University
Gabriela Ramos
University of Cambridge
Bridget Chesterton
Buffalo State, SUNY
Thomas Whigham
The University of Georgia
Edward R. Slack Jr
Eastern Washington University
Kris Lane
Tulane University
James Sanders
Utah State University
John F. Schwaller
University of New York at Albany
Douglas Ubelaker
Smithsonian Institution
Keitlyn E. Alcantara
Smithsonian Institution
Gary Urton
Harvard University
Jeffrey Gould
Indiana University Bloomington
Christopher Eichstedt
Indiana University Bloomington
Charlton Yingling
University of Louisville
Brian Jones
The University of Texas at Austin
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
The University of Texas at Austin
Erika Edwards
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Mariana Dantas
Ohio University
Tamara Walker
University of Pennsylvania
James G. Cusick
University of Florida
Adriana Estill
Carleton College
Tobias Boos
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
William F. Keegan
Florida Museum of Natural History
Ben Vinson III
Case Western Reserve University
Greg Graves
Ben Vinson III
Case Western Reserve University
Greg Graves
Kenneth J. Andrien
The Ohio State University
Roberto Breña
El Colegio de México
Terry Rugeley
The University of Oklahoma
Paul Eiss
Carnegie Mellon University
Louis A. Pérez Jr.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christopher Ebert
Brooklyn College
William Beezley
The University of Arizona
Laurent Dubois
Duke University
Julia Gaffield
Georgia State University
Alan Knight
University of Oxford
Jaime Rodriguez
St. John's University
Zachary Morgan
Boston College
Christon I. Archer
University of Calgary
Matthew Restall
Pennsylvania State University
Rebekah Martin
Pennsylvania State University
Andrew K. Balkansky
Southern Illinois University
Nathan J. Meissner
The University of Southern Mississippi
Salvador Martí i Puig
University of Girona
David Wheat
Michigan State University
David Tavárez
Vassar College
Charles Walker
UC Davis
Piero Gleijeses
Johns Hopkins University
Piero Gleijeses
Johns Hopkins University
Piero Gleijeses
Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey F. Taffet
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Alex Borucki
University of California, Irvine
Daniel Hellinger
Webster University
Neil Harvey
New Mexico State University

 

Religion, Culture, and Society

Henry Stobart
Royal Holloway University of London
Fiorella Montero-Diaz
Keele University
Alejandro Meter
University of San Diego
Dennis Carr
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Alfredo Luiz Suppia
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Andrew Grant Wood
The University of Tulsa
Lori Boornazian Diel
Texas Christian University
Laura A. Valdiviezo
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Carmina Makar
City College of New York, City University of New York
Daniel Morales
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Enrique Ochoa
California State University, Los Angeles
Patrick Ridge
Virginia Tech
John F. Schwaller
University of New York at Albany
Alfredo Luiz Suppia
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Jose C. Moya
Barnard College
Jerry Garcia
Eastern Washington University
Maria Helena Rueda
Smith College
Timothy J. Henderson
Auburn University at Montgomery
Jorge F. Rivas-Pérez
Aaron Hyman
Johns Hopkins University
Barbara E. Mundy
Fordham University
Penelope Dransart
University of Aberdeen
Deborah Poole
Johns Hopkins University
Luis Roniger
Wake Forest University
O. Hugo Benavides
Fordham University
Kelly Donahue-Wallace
University of North Texas
Stephen Dove
Centre College
Galen Brokaw
Montana State University
Frank Usarski
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Alfredo Luiz Suppia
State University of Campinas (Unicamp)
Jorge F. Rivas-Pérez
Antonio Sotomayor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
University of Florida
Silvia C. Ferreira
University of Washington Bothell
John F. Schwaller
University of New York at Albany
Cristina Ratto
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
University of Florida
Daniela Bleichmar
University of Southern California
Barbara Ganson
Florida Atlantic University
David William Foster
Arizona State University
Kristin Mann
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
 

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