About Historias

 Steven is an associate professor in the department of history and political science at Wingate University and serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of SECOLAS.

He published his first book,  More Argentine Than You: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants in Argentina_, in 2017 with the University of New Mexico Press.  

Carmen Soliz is a Bolivian historian. She is an assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Carmen did a master's in Andean Studies at Universidad de la Cordillera (Bolivia) and in Latin American Studies at Universidad de Salamanca (Spain). She received her Ph.D. in Latin American History from New York University in 2014. Her research examines Bolivian agrarian reform and sees the role that Indians and peasants played in the consolidation of one of the most radical and redistributive reforms in Latin America. More broadly, her works focus on peasant politics, agrarian reform, rural state formation, nation-building, citizenship and social movements in Latin America. 

She is the author of several articles, among them: “Agrarian Reform in Bolivia in the 20th and 21st centuries”( Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History,  2018),  “ Land to its original owners ”:Rethinking the Indigenous Politics of the Bolivian Agrarian Reform.” ( Hispanic American Historical Review,  2017), “La modernidad esquiva: debates políticos e intelectuales sobre la reforma agraria en Bolivia (1935-1952).” ( Revista Historia y Cultura,  2012).“El otro rostro de América Latina. En diálogo con  La emergencia indígena en América Latina, de José Bengoa.” ( Nueva Sociedad: 2012). Guest editor for  Revista Umbrales in 2016. 

Rebekah is currently at the University of North Carolina Charlotte pursuing her MA in the Latin American Studies program and working as a graduate assistant for SECOLAS. She is the Production Editor for the Spanish episodes of Historias. 

Rebekah graduated from the University of South Carolina in Spring 2021 with a BA in International Studies and a minor in Latin American Studies, where she was also a Carolina Global Scholar contributing to the Maxcy International Blog as a writer and as an intern to the Columbia World Affairs Council.

Lily is an assistant professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies program at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching focus on the topics of migration, social movements, and transnational history.

Her first book is titled  Argentina in the Global Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2020). This project, like her other publications, examined the ways in which diverse regions of the Global South share links to global migration systems. Lily’s primary interest is in writing transregional histories as seen through the lens of South-South alliances, solidarities, and exchanges that we can trace back to their roots in a long history of movement.

Her next book, provisionally titled American Venom: What Snakes Tell Us about our Interconnected Hemisphere,  proposes these venomous creatures as a natural fulcrum for investigating the movement of capital, bodies, and forms of knowledge in the Americas starting at the dawn of the 20th century.

Renata Keller is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, who focuses on the Cold War in Latin America and international history. Her first book, Mexico’s Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2015) was awarded SECOLAS’s Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize and honorable mentions for RMCLAS’s Thomas McGann and Michael C. Meyer Prizes.

Her second book, tentatively titled  Nuclear Reactions: The Cuban Missile Crisis and Cold War in Latin America, is a hemispheric history of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Her articles include pieces in  The Journal of Latin American Studies,  The Journal of Cold War Studies,  The Latin American Research Review,  Diplomatic History, and  Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and her research has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Philanthropic Educational Organization, the Kluge Center at the U.S. Library of Congress, the American Philosophical Society, and other institutions.  

Jackie is an assistant professor of History at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Her research explores the interactions between local, state, and national political actors in modern Mexico, as well as broader issues of race, development, and authoritarianism. Jackie is currently completing a monograph titled,  Indigenous Autocracy: Race, Governance, and Power in Porfirian Tlaxcala, 1880-1915.  The book explores the strategies that Governor Próspero Cahuantzi—a self-identified indigenous person and native of Tlaxcala—pursued in order to remain in power longer than any other governor during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). Her recent publication in  Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos explains how Governor Cahuantzi exploited his indigenous heritage to ingratiate himself to national Mexican elites. It is titled “The Indigenous Governor of Tlaxcala and Acceptable Indigenousness during the Porfirian Regime,”  MS/EM (Winter, 2019).