Stefan Pohl Valero publishes article on rural community development in Colombia, 1930-1950
Dr. Stefan Pohl Valero of the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, has published a new article in History of Science entitled “State, experts, and rural development in Colombia, 1930–50. A local genealogy of international community development.” Dr. Pohl argues that “the efforts made by the Colombian state to promote rural development, beginning in the 1930s, provided […]
Pablo F. Gómez publishes new book on Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the “Invention of Modern Corporeality”
Pablo F. Gómez has recently published a book with the University of Chicago Press, that “upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in terms of populations.” From the publisher: “Bloody Numbers is a provocative account of the violent world of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave-trading societies, where […]
Stefan Pohl Valero Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume on Popular Science during the Cold War
Dr. Stefan Pohl Valero from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, has recently published a chapter in the edited volume Science Popularisation as Cultural Diplomacy in Cold War UNESCO. The volume, published by Routledge, was edited by Andrée Bergeron, Agusti Nieto-Galan, Jaume Sastre-Juan. Dr. Pohl’s chapter is entitled “‘Food and People’ or How We Learned to […]
Dr. Natalia Gandara and Dr. Aleksandra Kaye Receive SKLAC Article Prize
The Forum for Science and Knowledge in Latin America and the Caribbean (SKLAC) congratulates Dr. Natalia Gandara and Dr. Aleksandra Kaye for their co-authored article “Sandalwood and the Entanglement of the Juan Fernández Islands in Eco-Cultural Networks,” The Journal of Pacific History (2025). From the selection committee: The article is an outstanding example of the […]
Dr. Emily Wakild publishes “A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia”
Dr. Emily Wakild has recently published her new book, A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia, with Oxford University Press. From the author: “The book starts with a simple premise. Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land […]
Dr. Gerardo Morales Jasso et al publish new edited volume on the history of Mexican environmental science
The Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental UNAM has recently published an edited volume on the history of Mexican environmental science, coordinated by Gerardo Morales Jasso, Alejandro Bonada Chavarría and Pedro S. Urquijo Torres, entitled Las ciencias ambientales en México, Aproximaciones a su historia. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to explore the origins, interests, […]
Going into the field: an interdisciplinary method for the history of circulation, by Diego Ortúzar
El estudio de las circulaciones en espacios periféricos desde una perspectiva material ha sido abordado principalmente por investigaciones de las ciencias sociales, en particular desde la antropología y la geografía, con un fuerte anclaje en el trabajo de terreno. Una vasta literatura en esa línea ha analizado, por ejemplo, los efectos sociales de la llegada […]
Eve Buckley publishes chapter in edited volume on science and technology in Brazil
Dr. Eve Buckley of the University of Delaware has recently published a chapter in the edited volume, Ciências e tecnologias num Brasil (in)dependente. From the editors: “This book discusses the history of the production of science and technologies in Brazil, considered as part of the process of cultural configuration and consolidation following the nation’s independence in 1822. […]
Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda Publishes New Book on Chilean Observatory’s Technical Workers
Dr. Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda of the Universidad de Chile has recently published his book entitled The Day Laborers of Science. Technical Work at the Astronomical Observatory of Chile (1852–1927). This book fills a significant gap in the historiography of science by examining the overlooked contributions of non-astronomical personnel in the early National Astronomical Observatory of Chile. […]
Special History and Covid-19 | We need more and better relativism, not less
In this blog post, Dr. Karin Rosemblatt argues that historians can help combat scientific denialism by increasing transparency about how science actually works and elucidating science’s inevitable relationship with politics and culture. ~ ~ ~ For some time, political actors on the right have been deploying lies to further their political goals, and scientific findings […]
Eve Buckley Publishes New Research on Cold War Population Control Debates
Dr. Eve Buckley of the University of Delaware has recently published a research report based on her archival work at the Rockefeller Archive Center on population control debates during the Cold War. “Inspired by a Brazilian critique of overpopulation concerns emanating from the United States during the early 1950s, this project examines debates about the […]
Teaching on Latin America and the Environment: Online Pedagogy Workshop
Registration is open for a one-day, online pedagogy workshop on integrating Latin American and Caribbean history of science and environmental history into teaching in adjacent fields. The workshop aims to inspire historians to teach about Latin American science and environment, with a specific focus on the nineteenth and twentieth-century periods. Participants will come away with […]