Tándem Transatlántico

Yaatsil Guevara González holds a PhD in sociology from Bielefeld University. She has worked at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas) at the University of Mainz, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) at Bielefeld University), and at the Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS) at Bielefeld University. She recently coordinated the research project “African Trajectories across Central America” funded by the German Research Foundation.

Carlos Alberto Haas was born in Guatemala and grew up in Germany. He studied musicology and history in Heidelberg, Rome and Munich. In 2018, he received his PhD from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich with the thesis "Privacy in the Ghettos. Jewish Life in Poland under German Occupation 1939-1944." This thesis was awarded the Doctoral Prize of the Leibniz Association. He is currently a lecturer and researcher (Akademischer Rat a. Z.) in the Department of History at LMU Munich.

Carlos Fredy Ochoa studied conflict resolution at Uppsala University. His master's and doctoral studies were in anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn). He is a specialist in Mayan societies, their oral tradition, authority systems and customary law and has a particular interest in 15th century Mesoamerica. He is currently a professor of peace and security at the School of Political Science and director of the Institute of Political and Social Research at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala.

Ester Serra Mingot is a social anthropologist with an approach on migration, social protection, and gender in African contexts. In 2018 she finished her Phd at the Universities of Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Aix Marseille (France), where she was capable to analyze transnational social protection issues for Sudanese immigrants and refugees in the Netherlands and the UK, as well as their families in Sudan.

Pabel Camilo López Flores is a Bolivian social researcher, associated with the Postgraduate Program in Development Sciences CIDES-UMSA (Bolivia). Doctor in Sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore and the Università di Milano 'Bicocca' (Italy). He has a post-doctorate in Geography at the Federal University of Uberlandia (Brazil), a Master in Social Policies and Sustainable Territory Management, a Master in Philosophy and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Law.

Anna Preiser is a University Assistant (Prae-Doc) at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her doctoral project focuses - from a political-economic and political-ecological and perspective - on socio-ecological conflicts of mining and environmental policy in Peru. She studied International Development (University of Vienna) and International Management (WU Vienna). She made several study stays (University of the Pacific), as a visiting researcher (Catholic University of Peru), and field research in Peru.

Ulrike Capdepón, Dipl.-Pol. (Ph.D. at the University of Hamburg and the Institute for Latin American Studies of the German Institute for Global and Regional Studies).

Soledad Stoessel has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences and a BA in Sociology from the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She has a Master's Degree in Political Sciences from FLACSO-Ecuador. She is currently a professor at the Epistemology of Social Sciences chair. She is a visiting professor-researcher in the master's degree in Political Sociology at FLACSO Ecuador. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET (Argentina) and participates in research projects based at the Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (UNLP-CONICET) and at FLACSO-Ecuador.

Amaru Villanueva is coordinator of projects at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation (FES). He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and an MA in Internet Social Sciences, both from Oxford University. Previously, he worked in the areas of innovation and strategy in telecommunications, and in 2010 he founded the magazine Bolivian Express. He was director of the Center for Social Research (CIS) and the Bolivian Bicentennial Library (BBB) ​​until 2017.

Tobias Boos is a Doctor in Political Science from the University of Vienna, where he is a professor in the area of ​​International Politics. His lines of research are middle class and populism in Latin America, theories of the state, and political economy. His focus is directed to the relationship between social structure and political identities in Latin America.