# People ## Faculty [### Sidney Chalhoub ](/people/sidney-chalhoub)David and Peggy Rockefeller Professor of Histoy and of African and African American Studies ![Sidney](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/dscf2302_1.jpg?itok=Wec4114O) [### Alejandro de la Fuente ](/people/alejandro-de-la-fuente)Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and of African and African American Studies ![de_la_fuente_2010b_1_0_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/de_la_fuente_2010b_1_0_0_0.jpg?itok=meFmi4xt) [### Tamar Herzog ](/people/tamar-herzog)Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs Affiliated Faculty Member Harvard Law School ![herzog-5123_1_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/herzog-5123_1_0.jpg?itok=UYLgk14p) [### Kirsten Weld ](/people/kirsten-weld)Professor of History ![weldmay2013_1_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/weldmay2013_1_0.jpg?itok=_7Wg_XdK) [### Paulina L. Alberto ](/people/paulina-l-alberto)Professor of History and of African and African American Studies ![Paulina Alberto](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/paulina_alberto_1.jpg?itok=E0XZLSbz) [### Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof ](/people/jesse-hoffnung-garskof)Professor of History ![Jesse hoffnung](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/jesse_01.jpg?itok=73EPGS8j) ## Current Students [### Felipe Alfonso ](/people/felipe-alfonso) ![Felipe Alonso](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/20181013_153701_1.jpg?itok=t6-5CEpx) [### Kevin Blacutt ](/people/kevin-blacutt) ![Kevin](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/blacutt_kevin_-_photo.jpg?itok=FHIM1_o8) [### José Carlos Fernández Salas ](/people/jos%C3%A9-carlos-fern%C3%A1ndez-salas) ![jose carlos](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/jc_photo-4.jpg?itok=rD3jKTrK) [### Lucas Koerner ](/people/lucas-koerner) ![lucas](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/lucaskoerner_11_1.jpg?itok=NlOBc4tH) [### Sergio Leos ](/people/sergio-leos) ![Sergio Leos](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/sergio_leos.jpg?itok=J0oXgP6z) [### Tomás Mantilla ](/people/tom%C3%A1s-mantilla) ![Tomás Mantilla](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/tomas_mantilla.png?itok=tfEYdCsW) [### Noga Marmor ](/people/noga-marmor) ![Noga Marmor](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/photo_for_bio_noga_marmor.jpg?itok=llmUjmOG) [### Thiago Mattos-Batista ](/people/thiago-mattos-batista) ![Thiago](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/thi_harvard_1.jpg?itok=1q-F4MuW) [### Manuel Medrano ](/people/manuel-medrano) ![Manuel](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/bio_medrano_square.jpg?itok=RKKuGe6L) [### Victoria Soto Estremera ](/people/victoria-soto-estremera) ![victoria](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/headshot_01.jpg?itok=vWkLYwTM) [### Adriana Zenteno Hopp ](/people/adriana-zenteno-hopp) ![adriana](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/photo-2023-08-29-14-59-40_0.jpg?itok=quRr2bIF) ## Recently Graduated Students [### James Almeida ](/people/james-almeida)Assistant Professor, Weber State University ![james almeida](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/professional_pic_square.jpeg?itok=UuC3qqHU) [### Laura Correa Ochoa ](/people/laura-correa-ochoa)Assistant Professor, Rice University ![Laura Correa](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/laura_correa.jpg?itok=bbvIv535) [### Cary Aileen Garcia Yero ](/people/cary-aileen-garcia-yero)Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University, Berlin Raphael Dorman Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs ![Cary Garcia](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/headshot.jpg?itok=LrfYD3OH) [### Marcella (Sally) Hayes ](/people/marcella-sally-hayes)Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison ![hayes_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/hayes_1.jpg?itok=fOfRjgC2) [### Mateo Jarquin ](/people/mateo-jarquin)Assistant Professor, Chapman University ![Mateo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/mateo_1.jpg?itok=t7Zpx0GQ) [### Stuart M. McManus ](/people/stuart-m-mcmanus)Assistant Professor of World History, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) ![Stuart](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/sm_photo_2_1.jpg?itok=IVMIR_HA) [### Meg Weeks ](/people/meg-weeks)Assistant Professor, University of Florida at Gainesville ![Meg Weeks](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/meg_weeks_headshot.png?itok=hTSMThb_) [### Georgia Whitaker ](/people/georgia-whitaker)NYU Law School ![Georgia Whitaker](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/georgia_whitaker_1.jpg?itok=zSL2y5BN) ## Current Visitors [### Cecilia Cruz Vecina ](/people/cecilia-cruz-vecina) ![Cecilia](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/photo_profile_cecilia_vecina.jpg?itok=vxq4u0F0) [### Harion Custodio ](/people/harion-custodio) ![Harion](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/1000020447.jpg?itok=spHhmG9B) [### Angelica Marquez-Osuna ](/people/angelica-marquez-osuna-0)Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program ![angelica](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/perfil_amo_1_01.jpg?itok=5-UCZ9RS) [### Jaqueline Martinho dos Santos ](/people/jaqueline-martinho-dos-santos) ![Jaqueline](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/366612023_10223904222216743_5235895240365243753_n.jpg?itok=ict30tHb) [### Fábio Pitta ](/people/f%C3%A1bio-pitta) ![Fabio](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/foto_set_2023.jpg?itok=Nl06n_rB) [### Milena Ribeiro Martins ](/people/milena-ribeiro-martins) ![milena](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/milena_martins_picture_01.jpg?itok=GJTQisDz) ## Past Visitors [### Nohora Arrieta Fernández ](/people/nohora-arrieta-fern%C3%A1ndez)2020-2021 ALARI Research Associate PhD Candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Georgetown University CLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion fellow (2020-2021) ![nohora](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/nohora.jpg?itok=-EP_b23n) [### Louise C. de Mello ](/people/louise-c-de-mello)Ph.D Student, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain ![loading](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/LouisdeMello.jpeg?itok=wGBiRU7Y) [### Adriana Chira ](/people/adriana-chira)Postdoctoral Fellow, WIGH Assistant Professor of Atlantic World History, Emory University ![chira_adriana](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/chira_adriana_01.jpg?itok=h2YNaETF) [### Bram De Ridder ](/people/bram-de-ridder)Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium ![ridder.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/ridder.jpg?itok=7LJ8qHYl) [### Jorge Delgadillo Núñez ](/people/jorge-delgadillo-n%C3%BA%C3%B1ez)Chancellor’s Advance Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Irvine 2022-2023: SlaveVoyages Postdoctoral Fellow ![delgadillo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/delgadillo-photo_02.jpg?itok=9U17wjLO) [### Genevieve Dempsey ](/people/genevieve-dempsey) ![Dempsey](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/dempsey.png?itok=dimOyvkn) [### Maria Renata Duran ](/people/maria-renata-duran)Cátedra UNESCO de Educação a Distância Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil ![Maria Renata Duran](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/img_0284.jpg?itok=YHCp01O5) [### Valentina Favarò ](/people/valentina-favar%C3%B2)Prof. Ordinaria - Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy ![Valentina Favaro](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/img-20181127-wa0019_1.jpg?itok=32pn0yh7) [### Marcelo Ferraro ](/people/marcelo-ferraro)Research Associate in ALARI and Brown University ![Marcelo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/marcelo_ferraro.jpg?itok=hVqU-Ig6) [### Josep M. Fradera ](/people/josep-m-fradera)Prof. of Modern History - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain ![fradera.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/fradera.jpg?itok=1TYMaNnm) [### Elisa Frühauf Garcia ](/people/elisa-fr%C3%BChauf-garcia)Professora, Universidad Federal Fulminense, Brazil ![ElisaGarcia](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/elisafgarcia.jpg?itok=e-4-jvFg) [### Matheus Gato de Jesus ](/people/matheus-gato-de-jesus)Professor, Unicam, Brazil ![Gato de Jesus](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/gato_de_jesus.png?itok=d4GuBZC_) [### Élodie Giraudier ](/people/%C3%A9lodie-giraudier) ![Elodie Giraudier](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/elodie_giraudier.jpg?itok=xLGwHEBd) [### Manuel Herrero Sánchez ](/people/manuel-herrero-s%C3%A1nchez)Catedrático, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain ![manuel_herrero.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/manuel_herrero.jpg?itok=57C3SaxO) [### Mary Hicks ](/people/mary-hicks)Assistant Professor, University of Chicago ![Mary Hicks](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/hicks_profile_pic.jpg?itok=WUlqNPTm) [### Jesse Horst ](/people/jesse-horst)Director of the Sarah Lawrence College Program in Cuba ![horstpic.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/horstpic.jpg?itok=cKo0BZUz) [### Vitus Huber ](/people/vitus-huber)Responsable for the project FNS-Ambizione and invited scholar Oriel College, Oxford, UK ![Image](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/2016_profil_vhuber.jpg?itok=SOikpjuR) [### Mandi Izadi ](/people/mandi-izadi)ALARI Research Associate and Broadbent Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge University person [### Betsy Konefal ](/people/betsy-konefal)Associate Professor of History at William & Mary ![Konefal](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/konefal.jpeg?itok=_iTK8qGl) [### Petra Kuivala ](/people/petra-kuivala)Visiting Scholar at the History Department, Harvard University ![Petra](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/petrakuivala_0.jpg?itok=pHaIvBfI) [### Minive Machado ](/people/minive-machado) ![Minive](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/ninive.jpeg?itok=Vqi4XSIj) [### Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz ](/people/b%C3%A1rbaro-mart%C3%ADnez-ruiz)2020-2021 Mark Claster Mamolen Fellow at the W. W. B. Du Bois Research Institute and the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University. ![barbaro](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/barbaro.jpeg?itok=a8MGP9B9) [### Lucio Menezes Ferreira ](/people/lucio-menezes-ferreira)Professor do Magistério Superior, UFPEL, Brazil ![lucio_menezes](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/lucio_menezes.jpg?itok=8jxn7XiF) [### Raúl Moreno Almendral ](/people/ra%C3%BAl-moreno-almendral)Investigador, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain ![Raul Moreno](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/rma.jpg?itok=BQzXfhAh) [### Stéphanie Noach ](/people/st%C3%A9jamoe-noach)Lecturer, Universitat Leiden, Netherlands ![Stéphanie](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/stephanie_noach_pict_1.jpg?itok=SPDJjFq9) [### Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene ](/people/angela-yesenia-olaya-requene) ![Olaya](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/olaya.png?itok=ax37fTN8) [### Jorun Poettering ](/people/jorun-poettering)Historisches Institut, Universität Rostock, Germany ![jorun_poettering.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/jorun_poettering.jpg?itok=lI9C3xSx) [### Elisa Pomari ](/people/elisa-pomari)Ph.D Student, UNICAMP, Brazil ![Elisa](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/photo_elisa_pomari.jpg?itok=Hpjss46q) [### Orlando Rivero-Valdes ](/people/orlando-rivero-valdes) ![orlando](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/orlando.jpg?itok=amCNohsa) [### Paulo Henrique Rodrigues Pereira ](/people/paulo-henrique-rodrigues-pereira)Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop Alumnus 2020 Spring 2020 ALARI Visiting Fellow ![Paulo Henrique](/sites/g/files/omnuum8996/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/latin_american_history/files/foto_paulo_1_01.jpg?itok=MdDVyqBY) [ See More Past Visitors arrow\_circle\_right ](/people-categories/past-visitors)