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The recent social unrest in Chile, the estallido social, has provided a reckoning for the political order that the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship brought into being. Dr. Marian Schlotterbeck joined Lily Balloffet to talk about the current crisis and her own work on everyday social revolutionaries in Chile. Check out her book, Beyond the Vanguard: Everyday Revolutionaries in Allende’s Chile (University of California Press, 2018). Originally aired November 20, 2019

Drs. Thomas Field and Carmen Soliz walk Steven Hyland and Dustin Walcher through the unfolding political crisis in Bolivia. Originally aired November 13, 2019

Dr. Khristin Landry Montes, assistant professor of Art History at Cornell College, and Paula Karger, doctoral candidate in comparative literature at the University of Toronto, join Steven Hyland for the first of two deep dives on the Maya. The discussion centers on Mayan cultural forms, including cosmology and origin stories, and sociopolitical organization and trade prior to the arrival of the Spanish and into the colonial era. Originally aired November 7, 2019

Drs. Mark Healey and Ernesto Semán joined Steven to discuss this past Sunday’s presidential and gubernatorial elections in Argentina. The discussion features a deep dive on the evolution of political culture over the past four decades and the emergence of a consolidated, radicalized center-right political movement. Originally aired October 31, 2019

Dr. Thomas Field Jr., an associate professor of Global Security and Intelligence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, joined Renata to discuss this past Sunday’s presidential election. Originally aired October 23, 2019

Dr. Javier Pabón of Methodist University joined Steven to talk about his scholarship and about filmmaking. They also chatted about membership in national communities for diverse groups of people. As an added bonus, Dr. Pabón read us some poetry.

Dr. Casey Lurtz of Johns Hopkins University joined Jackie and Carlos to talk about her book From the Grounds Up: Building an Export Economy in Southern Mexico. Originally aired October 9, 2019

Dr. Corinna Zeltsman of Georgia Southern University talked with Jackie Sumner about print culture in nineteenth century Mexico, the joys of teaching, paths for graduate students, and paper. Originally aired October 2, 2019

Dr. Alan McPherson of Temple University sat down with Dustin Walcher to discuss his career working in U.S.-Latin American relations, and his new book, Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice. They chatted about anti-Americanism, nationalism, archives, and historical detective work. Originally aired September 25, 2019

Dr. Elena Schneider, an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, spoke with Steven about her award-winning book The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World. And our heartiest congratulations to Elena for just learning that The Occupation of Havana won the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize from the Latin American & Caribbean Section (LACS) of the Southern Historical Association. Originally aired September 11, 2019

Jayson Porter joins Carlos to discuss his research on the intersection of political economy and agricultural sciences that led to the Green Revolution in Mexico. They also discuss the utility and opportunities of social media and the wide variety of maps and the information they communicate. Originally aired September 4, 2019

Dr. Francesca Lessa, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford, joined Steven to talk about Operation Condor and the pursuit of justice and accountability for the states and actors responsible for transnational human rights crimes in the 1970s. See Francesca’s recent article in the Journal of Latin American Studies – “Operation Condor on Trial: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Crimes in South America“ See also her 2011 monograph Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity

“There are no colonial legacies in Spanish America. Yet, this book is about them.” And so begins Dr. Lina Del Castillo‘s fascinating book Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographical Inventions of Colombia that traces the efforts to build a republican nation in a hostile world of monarchies and empires. Renata caught up with Lina to explore it further. Originally aired June 26, 2019

Dr. Erin Beck, an associate professor of political science at the University of Oregon and an award-winning author, spoke with Steven about the recent general election in Guatemala. She is the author of How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs (Duke University Press, 2017) Originally aired June 19, 2019

Drs. Rita Palacios and Paul Worley joined Steven to discuss their new book entitled Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge. This episode is the first in an occasional series on the Maya. Originally aired June 13, 2019

Dr. Stephen Neufeld joined Renata and Steven to discuss his award-winning book The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico. Originally aired June 5, 2019

Dr. Marixa Lasso of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia joined Steven to discuss her new book Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal. Originally aired May 29, 2019

In this state of the field episode, Matt Childs, Elena Schneider, and Alex Wisnoski joined Steven to discuss the history of slavery in Latin American and Caribbean societies.

Dr. Orlando Perez of Millersville University joined Steven to discuss the results and consequences of Sunday’s legislative and presidential elections in Panama. Originally aired May 7, 2019

In the latest installment of our Luminaries series, Dr. Donna Guy, Professor Emeritus from both the Ohio State University and the University of Arizona, joined Steven and Dustin for a wide-ranging conversation. They discussed her career, her scholarship, the challenges that women have faced in academia, and the importance of mentorship and peer connections in the profession. Originally aired April 30, 2019