Eleonora Rohland is professor for entangled history in the Americas at Bielefeld University. She was trained as an economic, social, and environmental historian at the University of Bern, Switzerland and received her PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2014, while the research for her dissertation project was funded by a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI). Since 2017 she is a principal investigator in the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1288: "Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World" and co-coordinator of the research gro

She is a Professor of Sociology of Education and Pedagogy. Her research interests cover youth and schooling in extreme urban poverty, environmental studies, social inclusion and educational inequalities. She has been involved in several research projects in the slums of San Martin (Buenos Aires), close to the dumpsite of Ceamse and nearby the University. She has experience in innovative community-based research methods through artistic, ethnographic, digital and audio-visual practices. In her most recent projects she focuses on urban cartographies of education and social inequalities.

Elissa J. Rashkin (PhD, Communication Studies, University of Iowa, USA) is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Culture and Communication at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.She is the author of Atanasio D. Vázquez, photographer of the post-revolution in Veracruz (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura, 2015), "Women filmmakers in Mexico. El otro cine" (Universidad Veracruzana, 2015) and "La aventura estridentista.

Antoine Acker is a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he leads a team project about the transnational history of petroleum in Latin America. His publications in environmental history received awards from the Conference on Latin American History and the Latin American Studies Association.
 

Recent publications

Book

Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil. Cambridge University Press (Global and International History series), 2017. 
 

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).