Contributors
- Contributors
Claudia Rueda is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Her research focuses on the role of students in fomenting rebellion and revolution during the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. Her book Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest and Coalition-Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua was published by the University of Texas Press in 2019.
Christina Ramos is Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines the history of medicine in the Spanish Americas with a focus on colonial hospitals and the provisioning of public health. She is completing a book titled, Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John Carter Brown Library, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Katarzyna Szoblik, a Polish mesoamericanist, is Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. She is principal investigator in these research projects, financed by the National Science Centre in Poland: “Woman as a Subject and as a Composer of the ancient Nahua Songs” (2012–14), and “The Cultural topoi in the pre-Hispanic and Early Colonial Oral Tradition of Central Mexico” (2018–present). She was awarded a fellowship by the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin for the project “Methods of Historical Knowledge Production and Transmission, and Traces of the Cultural Transfers in the Manuscripts of Cantares Mexicanos and Romances de los Señores de la Nueva España” (2018).
Anna Cant is Assistant Professor in Latin American History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on twentieth-century politics, cultural history, and rural development in the Andes. Her first book, on the political and cultural impact of Peru’s 1969 agrarian reform, will be published by University of Texas Press in 2021. From 2016 to 2018, she was a visiting researcher at Los Andes University, Bogotá, where her postdoctoral research examined radio education in rural Colombia during the 1960s and 1970s. She has taught in the United Kingdom and in Colombia, and received scholarships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Leverhulme Trust. She is an editor of the journal Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL).
