Notes on contributors

Diogo de Carvalho Cabral is an assistant professor in environmental history and a member of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities (TCEH) at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). Before that, he was a British Academy-funded Newton International Fellow based at the Institute of Latin American Studies/School of Advanced Study, University of London (United Kingdom). His academic awards include the Journal of Historical Geography Best Paper Prize (2016) and an honourable mention in the Milton Santos Prize (2017). He is the author of Na Presença da Floresta: Mata Atlântica e História Colonial (Rio de Janeiro, 2014) and co-edited Metamorfoses Florestais: Culturas, Ecologias e as Transformações Históricas da Mata Atlântica (Curitiba, 2016) with Ana Bustamante. Sitting at the interface between history, geography, ecology and anthropology, his work addresses the historical dimensions of multispecies environmental change in modern Brazil.

Bruno Capilé is a professor in the master’s programme in Integrated Management of Territory at the Universidade Vale do Rio Doce (GIT/Univale), Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is currently the coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Observatory of the Territory (OBIT). His research interests include urban environmental history, public history, history of science, territorial studies and nonhuman agency.

José Marcelo M. Ferreira Filho is a professor at the department of history at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). His areas of interest are environmental history and social history of labour. He is particularly interested in the multitrophic ecological interactions between humans, animals (especially insects) and plants, and is currently working on a research project about the environmental history of sugar in Northeast Brazil.

Margarita Gascón earned her master’s and PhD from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is a tenured researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) in Argentina and also teaches at undergraduate and graduate levels in Mendoza. Among her most recent publications are the Afterword to De viejas y nuevas fronteras en América y Europa, edited by Macarena Sánchez Pérez and Katherine Quinteros Rivera (Editorial Universidad Finis Terrae, Chile, 2022), the chapter ‘Las múltiples identidades étnicas en la frontera colonial del último sur hispanoamericano’, in Critica de la Razón Indígena, edited by Carlos Felimer del Valle Rojas and Alejandra Cebrelli (La Plata, Argentina, Editorial Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2023, 208–26), the chapter ‘Hispanoamérica colonial/Colonial Hispanic America (19°-y 34°de latitud sur)’ in the volume Land Use and the chapter ‘Cambio climático en el sur de Hispanoamérica colonial/Climatic change in the south of colonial Hispanic America’ in the volume from the series ‘Climatic Change’ Handbooks, The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America (CALAS, University of Bielefeld, Germany, 2024).

Magdalena Gil is an assistant professor at P. Universidad Católica de Chile School of Government and a researcher at CIGIDEN, the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management [ANID/FONDAP/1523A0009]. She received her PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 2016. Dr Gil specialises in disasters and their impacts on state and society. Her current research focuses on public policy and climate change adaptation. This research was partially funded by ANID/INICIACION/11220562.

Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes is an associate professor at the department of anthropology, graduate programme in archaeology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is a specialist in Amazonian archaeology, having conducted field research in the region of Santarém, Pará, for twenty years. She is a CNPq Productivity Fellow 2 with the project ‘Theory and method in iconography of the Amerindian world’. Proponent of an interpretative model on the existence of an American aesthetics, based on the theory of the Amerindian perspectivism, she has supervised theses and dissertations on Amazonian, Andean and rock art iconography, which contribute to a comparative view on the subject.

Claudia Leal is a full professor at the department of history and geography at Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia, and holds a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Landscapes of Freedom: Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia (The University of Arizona Press, 2018) and has edited several books, among them A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America (Berghahn Books, 2018, with John Soluri and José Augusto Pádua). She is finishing a history of Colombian national parks and is also researching the history of animals.

Luisa Vidal de Oliveira holds a master’s in visual languages and a master’s in archaeology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Her research is mainly directed at ceramic ritual objects, and deals with the encounter between ontology and visual language. She has worked since 2016 on the Konduri iconography collection that burned down in the 2018 Museu Nacional fire. She currently lives in Santiago de Chile conducting her doctoral research on South-Central Andean archaeological iconography.

Hannah Regis is an assistant professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University. Her research interests include Caribbean poetics, Caribbean literary and theoretical history, Caribbean spectrality, haunting, counter-archival engagements, reparative writing, theories of embodiment and cultural memory. She has published widely on Caribbean spectrality in several scholarly journals including Caribbean Quarterly, The American Studies Journal (AMSJ), eTropic and The Journal of West Indian Literature. Her single-authored book, A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit, is published with the University of the West Indies Press.

Lise Sedrez is an associate professor of environmental history at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been published in Italy, Colombia, Brazil and the USA. She is a research scholar for the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – CNPq and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and at the Rachel Carson Center, in Munich. Her research interests include urban environmental history, global environmental governance and history of disasters.

Olivia Arigho Stiles is an interdisciplinary researcher of Indigenous histories and the rural world in Bolivia. She completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, in July 2022. Her research examines the history of ecological thought within highland Indigenous movements in Bolivia, 1920–90. She holds a BA in history from the University of Oxford and an MA in Latin American studies from University College London (UCL). She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Indigenous ecologies and environmental crisis at University College London. Her work engages with decolonial theory, environmental history and the Anthropocene in historical perspective.

María Dolores Ramírez Vega holds an MA and a PhD (history) from Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico. In 2021 she completed her postgraduate studies with a dissertation about droughts, locust plagues and agriculture crisis in the viceroyalty of New Spain between 1765 and 1780. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology in Mexico DC. She holds a position as secretary in the Seminar on History and Climate under the coordination of Dr Luis Alberto Arrioga in the Colegio de Michoacán. She is also a member of the group that Dr Armando Alberola Romá leads in the project entitled ‘Catastrophe of climatic and natural origins, emergency management and political, scientific and religious discourses in the West Mediterranean and Hispanic America, eighteenth century’.

Luis Alberto Arrioja Díaz Viruell holds a PhD in History from El Colegio de México (2008). He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level 2. He has been working since 2009 as a full professor at El Colegio de Michoacán. He has published ten books and more than thirty articles in specialised academic journals on Indian towns, agrarian and economic structures, and political culture in Mexico in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For the last ten years, his research projects have been about climate history and disaster in Central America and Mexico, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.

André Vasques Vital is an associate professor in environmental sciences at the Evangelical University of Goiás – UniEVANGELICA, Brazil. He is co-editor of Águas no Brasil: Conflitos, Atores, e Práticas (Editora Alameda, 2019) and has published articles in important international journals such as Feminist Media Studies and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He also co-edited the special issue ‘Tropical Imaginaries and Climate Crisis: Embracing Relational Climate Discourses’ (eTropic, 2021). His works propose a non-humanist historical perspective, mainly through fantasy and science fiction animations, where water and nonhuman animals are understood as active agents in the constitution of the past.