Hugo Cerón Anaya is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He aims to reverse the model that only looks at impoverished communities to explore social inequalities. Instead, Cerón Anaya analyses how class, racialized, and gender dynamics inform the behavior, perceptions, and views of the world of affluent people. He is particularly interested in the vast array of ordinary and everyday practices that reproduce social relations of domination in contemporary Mexico.

Francisco Robles-Rivera is an Associate professor at the University of Costa Rica. He conducts comparative research on inequality, media, elites, private financing of political parties and power in Latin America. Dr. Robles-Rivera holds a PhD in Political Science from the Freie Universität Berlin (DE), as well as a master’s degree in Latino American Studies from National University of Costa Rica. Most of his research has been focused on Central America, an under -studied region in Latin America.

Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete holds a double PhD in International Development Studies from Saint Mary’s University and the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas. His research focuses on the dynamics of agrarian transformations and new peasant movements in Paraguay. His work has been published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, Latin American Perspectives, and Estudios Críticos del Desarrollo. His is the co-editor of Agrarian Extractivism in Latin America (Routledge, 2021).

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Olaf Kaltmeier is professor of Iberoamerican History at the University of Bielefeld. He is the spokesperson for CALAS to the BMBF and has served as director of CALAS-Maria Sybilla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studing in the Humanities and Social Science from 2017 to 2025. At the University of Bielefeld, he serves on the Executive Board for the Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS), as coordinator (with W.

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."