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 publica “A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia”
Dr. Emily Wakild publicó recientemente su nuevo libro, A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia, con Oxford University Press. De la autora: “Este libro parte de una premisa sencilla. Durante el último siglo, los paisajes de Sudamérica cambiaron radicalmente. A medida que se talaban los bosques, se construían ciudades y […]
Dr. Gerardo Morales Jasso et al publicam novo volume editado sobre a história da ciência ambiental mexicana
El Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental UNAM ha publicado un volumen editado sobre la historia de las ciencias ambientales en México, coordinado por Gerardo Morales Jasso, Alejandro Bonada Chavarría y Pedro S. Urquijo Torres, titulado Las ciencias ambientales en México: Aproximaciones a su historia. Esta colección interdisciplinaria busca explorar los orígenes, los intereses y […]
Hacer terreno: un método interdisciplinario para la historia de las circulaciones, por 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 publica capítulo em volume editado sobre ciência e tecnologia no Brasil.
A Dra. Eve Buckley, da Universidade de Delaware, publicou recentemente um capítulo no livro, Ciências e tecnologias num Brasil (in)dependente. Segundo os editores: “Este livro foi organizado com o objetivo de discutir a história da produção das ciências e das tecnologias no Brasil, considerando-as parte do processo de configuração e consolidação da cultura do país pós-independência […]
Carlos Sanhueza-Cerda publica novo livro sobre os trabalhadores técnicos do Observatorio Astronómico Nacional do Chile
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. […]
História Especial e Covid-19 | Precisamos de mais e melhor relativismo, não de menos
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 publica nova pesquisa sobre os debates sobre o controle populacional na Guerra Fria
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 […]