Field-Of-Study: Iberian and Latin American History

Eric Van Young is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where he has chaired his department (2000-2004), served as Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities (2007-2009), and been Associate Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (1995-2000). He received his B.A. with Honors in history from the University of Chicago

Camilla Townsend was born and raised in New York City, where she was inspired by some of some of the city’s most wonderful institutions—the American Museum of Natural History, the Heye Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Stuyvesant High School. She graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and then traveled and worked

Gastón Gordillo is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. His research has examined the contradictory nature of places, the salience of space in social memory and political struggles, the subjectivities constituted by experiences of domination and estrangement, and the rise of emergent indigeneities among subaltern populations. His fieldwork

Victoria Sanford received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University (2000) where she also received training in International Human Rights Law and Immigration Law at Stanford Law School. Additionally, she received a certificate in Human Rights Law from the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica. She has worked with Central American refugees since

Roderick A. McDonald is Professor of History at Rider University and editor of the Journal of the Early Republic (JER) published for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) and the premier publication on the history of the United States between 1776 and 1861. A native of Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated

Jeffrey Bortz earned a Ph.D. in Latin American History at UCLA and has taught at Appalachian State University since 1989. A former Fulbright research scholar, he has taught at a number of Mexican universities, including the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH),

Allen Wells is the Roger Howell, Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1973) and his master’s and doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1974, 1979). His earlier scholarship was on the social and economic

 Mary Kay Vaughan specializes in the cultural, gender, and educational history of modern Mexico. Her book Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930-1940 received the Herbert Eugene Bolton Prize as the most outstanding book in Latin American history in 1997 and the Bryce Wood Award of the Latin American Studies Association for