Editor

Regina Horta Duarte has been a full professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in Brazil, since 1988, and is currently a permanent professor of its Graduate Program in History. She has experience in History, focusing on the Brazilian Republic, history and nature, the history of biology, and animal history. She was a member of the board of the ANPUH, Brazilian History Association (2007-2009), as editor-in-chief of the Revista Brasileira de História. In 2008, she held the position of Resident Professor at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Advanced Studies, UFMG.

Ricardo A. Gutiérrez holds a bachelor’s in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires and a doctorate in Political Science from John Hopkins University. He is professor and dean of the School of Policy and Government at UNSAM and lead investigator at CONICET (Argentina).

José Augusto Pádua is professor of Brazilian environmental history at the Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he is also coordinator of the Laboratory of History and Nature. From 2010 to 2015, he was president of the Brazilian Association of Research and Graduate Studies on Environment and Society (ANPPAS).

Anthony Goebel McDermott holds a PhD in History from the University of Costa Rica. He serves as Professor in the School of History and as investigator at the Center for Central American Historical Investigation (CIHAC) of the same university, where he also forms part of the investigative team for the program Environment, Science, Technology, and Society (ACTS) Intersection between Environmental History and Social Studies of Science, Technology, and Society (CTS). Currently he acts as director of the Central American Postgrad in History at the University of Costa Rica.

Cecilia Ibarra is an industrial civil engineer of the University of Chile. She specialized in management of technology and innovation, focusing in professionally on the processes that accompany technological change. Later, she received her doctorate in Science and Technology Policy Studies from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom and, currently, is engaged in investigation. Her area of work includes the processes of technological change and governance, specifically on themes related to climate change from a historical focus.

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Prof. Dr. Adrián Zarrilli is a professor and Doctor of History from the National University of Quilmes, Argentina. Investigator of the National Board of Scientific and Technical Investigation, he serves as associate professor at the National University of Quilmes and La Plata. His postdoctoral studies took place at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). He has acted as professor of postgraduate programs in universities throughout Latin America and Europe.

Heidi V. Scott is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She earned a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2002 and taught at Aberystwyth University (Wales) before joining UMass Amherst in 2011. A historian and historical geographer of the colonial Andes, her work to date has focused on landscape experience and colonialism, cartography, and, most recently, on mining and subterranean imaginaries. She is author of Contested Territory: Mapping Peru in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Notre Dame U.P., 2009).

Helge Wendt is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His research interests lie mainly in global history. He received his PhD from the University of Mannheim with a transnational, transconfessional, and diachronic study of colonial Christian mission. For the past ten years, he has been researching primarily on the topic of a global history of knowledge of coal from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Here lies his connection to the topic of mining and the Anthropocene.

Recent Publications

Jordana Blejmar is Lecturer in Visual Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Liverpool. Originally a Literature graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, she was awarded her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Playful Memories: The Autofictional Turn in Post-Dictatorship Argentina (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the co-editor of Instantáneas de la memoria: Fotografía y dictadura en Argentina y América Latina (with N. Fortuny and L.

Olaf Kaltmeier is professor of Iberoamerican History at the University of Bielefeld. He serves as director of CALAS-Maria Sybilla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studing in the Humanities and Social Science as well as spokesperson of the BMBF. At the University of Bielefeld, he serves on the Executive Board for the Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS), as coordinator (with W. Raussert) of the BMBF project "The Americas as a Space of Entanglement" and is coordinator of the research area in the SFB 1288 "Practices of Comparing."