Jonas Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the Goethe University Frankfurt, specializing in research on transformations in Latin America, and a member of the Board of the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF), where he directs the “Internal Conflicts” program. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Colombo-German Institute for Peace (CAPAZ) in Bogota, Colombia.

Alejandra Botinelli holds a BA in Hispanic Language and Literature, MA and PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile. She is currently an academic at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile and coordinator of the Latin American and Chilean Literature Department. Her research deals with intellectual discourse, writings and modernisms of the end of the century in Brazil, Peru and Mexico and on the current narratives of Chile, Argentina and Peru.

Astrid Ulloa holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Irvine and is a professor in the Department of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Jorge Coronado is Professor of Modern Latin American and Andean Literatures and Cultures at Northwestern University, where he is currently co-director of the Andean Cultures and Histories (ACH) working group of the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies. He holds a B.A. from Williams College and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Coronado has published numerous works on visual culture, modernity, indigenism and intellectual traditions in Latin America.

Cécile Stehrenberger is Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at DAAD Costa Rica. Previously she has been professor for historical and comparative studies of science and technology at the University of Wuppertal. She received her PhD from the University of Zurich. She worked as a lecturer at the universities of Braunschweig and Erfurt. She was visiting scholar at Princeton IAS, University of Delaware, Drexel University and CSDS in Delhi, India. She was visiting professor at the National University of La Plata (Argentina) and senior fellow at CALAS in Guadalajara.

Kristina Dietz is Professor of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel. Her research deals with socio-ecological transformation, global environmental, climate and energy policy, extractivism and resource conflicts, critical agrarian studies, social movements, democracy and participation, all with a focus on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. She is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (CELA) at the University of Kassel and a member of the Directory Board of CALAS.