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Natalia Majluf has an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and a PhD in Art History from Texas University in Austin. She was the director of the Museum of Art in Lima from 2002 to 2018, a period in which she led an ambitious project of infrastructure renewal. She has contributed to develop the library and the museum editions, introduced new digital resources and encouraged acquisitions. Her curatorial and research work has focused on Latin American art from the XIX and XX centuries and, also, in the study of the material culture related to problems like the growth of the state, speeches of modern nationalism and the constitution of racial and ethnic categories. She has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts from National Gallery of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Centre of Latin American Studies of Cambridge University.
Francisco Valdés Ugalde earned a PhD in Political Sciences from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is a lead researcher of the Institute of Social Research of UNAM. Between 2010 and 2018, he worked as general director of FLACSO-México. In 2001 he directed the National Institute of Historical Studies of the Mexican Revolution. From 2007 to 2010, he was director of Revista Mexicana de Sociología. He was the president of the Superior Committee of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (2008-2010) and at present he is a member of that governmental agency. Ha has been visiting professor at Harvard, Brown, Connecticut, California, Universidad de Salamanca and Instituto Universitario de Investigación José Ortega y Gasset. He has participated in the Work Team that has written the project of the Constitution of Mexico City. His publications go from books, collaborations and articles in specialized journals. He has just been co-editor of Norbert Lechner, Works (4 vols.) published by FLACSO-México and Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Gisela Zaremberg Lis is a PhD in Social Science Research with a mention in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, Mexico) and a Master's in Social Policies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently works as a Professor-Researcher at FLACSO, Mexico, where she is also the Academic Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Public Policy and Gender. She was a member of the LASA Executive Committee. She has published in various publishers and journals of recognized prestige such as Palgrave, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Politics & Gender and Revista Mexicana de Sociología, among others. Her latest book (in Element format) is titled: Feminisms in Latin America: nested networks in Mexico and Brazil, published by Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Debora Rezende de Almeida (National University of Brasilia –UnB-).
María Rosa Olivera-Williams is a professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She received a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in Modern and Contemporary Iberian and Latin American Literatures, for which she received the Presidential Award and Fellowship. She teaches courses on modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture; women’s literature and feminisms in Latin America; memory studies with a focus on militant movements, dictatorships, and transitions to democracy in the Southern Cone; and popular culture, music, dance and film. She is the author of El arte de crear lo femenino: ficción, género e historia del Cono Sur (Cuarto Propio, 2012; 2013), El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género, Estado en América Latina together with Mabel Moraña (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005), and the monograph, La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernández: respuesta estética y condicionamiento social (Centro de Investigaciones Lingüístico-Literarias. Universidad Veracruzana, 1986).
Olivia Gomes da Cunha is full Professor of the postgraduate program in Social Anthropology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She develops research on plantationocene/plantation and extractivism, and traditional knowledge among the Ndyuka Maroons, in the Cottica region, east coast of Suriname and border with French Guiana. Among the most recent publications are the organization of the collection Maroon cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity, and ncorporation (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018) and the book The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and other Artifacts (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020).
Carlos Medina Gallego has a degree in Social Sciences, a Master's degree and a Doctor in History from the National University of Colombia. He has worked as a research professor at the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences of the National University of Colombia; at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia; and at the Higher School of Public Administration. He is a member of the Security and Defense Research Group, a specialist in armed conflict and illegal armed actors, negotiated political solutions and peace processes. It is part of the Center for Thought and Monitoring of the peace process. He has served as an advisor to the national, departmental and municipal governments in the preparation of territorial development plans, social management and coexistence programs and social control of public management. His research activities have revolved around the topics of Security and Defense, Armed Conflict and peace processes, Education and Pedagogy.
Susan Eckstein, Boston University
Ronald H. Chilcote, Universidad Stanford
Sueli Carneiro, Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra
Wayne A. Cornelius, University of California San Diego
Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida
Julio Cotler+, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos
Richard Fagen, Stanford University
Manuel Antonio Garretón, Universidad de Chile
June Nash, City University of New York
Marysa Navarro, Dartmouth College and Harvard University
Peter Smith, University of California, San Diego
Julieta Mortati, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)