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).