Florence Babb is Harrington Distinguished Professor in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in gender and sexuality as well as race and class in changing contexts in Latin America. Her publications include After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua (University of Texas Press, 2001), The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and Histories (Stanford University Press, 2011), and Women’s Place in the Andes: Engaging Decolonial Feminist Anthropology (University of California Press, 2018).
Christiane Berth is Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. A historian of food politics and consumer history in global perspective, with a particular focus on Mexico and Central America, Dr Berth has published widely on the history of food politics in Nicaragua. Other recent works include a book on the history of the coffee trade between Germany and Central America; a chapter on Sandinista comics for the University of Pittsburgh Press; and an edited volume on the culture of Sandinismo in Nicaragua.
David Cooper is a social anthropologist, and received his PhD from the department of anthropology at UCL in 2015. He has since held several postdoctoral positions, most recently the ESRC-funded ‘Politicised provision: development and welfare under Latin America’s new left’. His publications include ‘Grounding rights: populist and peasant conceptions of entitlement in rural Nicaragua’ (Social Analysis) and ‘Pentecostalism and the peasantry: domestic and spiritual economies in rural Nicaragua’ (Ethnos). He is currently teaching at the University of Bristol.
Hilary Francis is a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Northumbria. Her doctoral research – on Nicaragua’s Contra War – drew on extensive oral history research with ex-combatants in Nicaragua. She is currently working on two postdoctoral projects: a history of the relationship between US aid and pesticide use in Nicaragua; and a collaborative study of the environmental and health impacts of the Masaya volcano from 1850 to the present.
José Luis Rocha is Senior Researcher at the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala and Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” in El Salvador, and associate Researcher with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. His work focuses on issues relating to youth gangs, social movements, political analysis, and migration. He is a member of the editorial committee of the academic journal Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos (Costa Rica) and the magazine Envío. His last publications include the books Autoconvocados y conectados. Los universitarios en la revuelta de abril en Nicaragua (UCA publicaciones y UCA editores, 2019), El debate sobre la justica maya. Encuentros y desencuentros del pluralismo jurídico en la Guatemala del siglo XXI (EDUSAC, 2019), La desobediencia de las masas. La migración no autorizada de centroamericanos a Estados Unidos como desobediencia civil (UCA editores, 2018), and Expulsados de la globalización (IHNCA, 2011).
Robert Sierakowski received his PhD in history from UCLA. His book Sandinistas: A Moral History is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press. Dr Sierakowski is a history teacher and advisor in the Department of History, Trevor Day School. He is a former lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies.
Fernanda Soto (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is the author of Ventanas en la Memoria: recuerdos de la Revolución en la Frontera Agrícola (UCA, 2011). Dr Soto is Projects Coordinator at the NGO Winds of Peace and a researcher at the Center for Global Education and Experience, Ausgburg University, USA.
Johannes Wilm obtained his PhD from Goldsmiths College in 2013. His book Nicaragua, Back from the Dead? An Anthropological View of the Sandinista Movement in the Early 21st Century was published by New Left Notes in 2011. Wilm is currently affiliated with the Historical Studies section at the Department of Society, Culture and Identity at the University of Malmö.
Justin Wolfe is a William Arceneaux Professor of Latin American History and Suzanne and Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow. He specializes in Central America, particularly post-colonial social and cultural history. His research interest include nation-formation, race and ethnicity, and the African Diaspora. His publications include Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place (Duke University Press, 2010) and The Everyday Nation-State: Community and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua (University of Nebraska Press, 2007).