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UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors in Latin American Studies. Below are recent authors who have earned honors from the Latin American Studies Association. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!María Elena García2022 Flora Tristán Pri

By Sebastián Ureta & Patricio Flores, co-authors of Worlds of Gray and Green: Mineral Extraction as Ecological Practice“We are walking, talking minerals” —V. I. Vernadsky[1]Mineral extraction has a bad reputation nowadays. Decades of relentless extraction of minerals throughout the world

By Graham Denyer Willis, author of Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in BrazilWhat does it mean to disappear, to vanish and never be seen again? Disappearance has long been understood as an explicitly political problem, a question of moonlight military flights over the

Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos’s current issue includes the article “Valle Imperial/valle de Mexicali, 1910–28: su impacto en la cuenca del río Colorado y la disputa por los usos sociales” by Marco Antonio Samaniego López, which examines the controversial negotiations between Mexico and the Uni

As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we connected with UC Press Associate Editor Enrique Ochoa-Kaup to talk about his new role managing the Asian studies and Latin American studies lists, and what kinds of projects he's looking for. Enrique also shares details about his professional backg

By Sarah Hines, author of Water for All: Community, Property, and Revolution in Modern BoliviaIn January 2006, Evo Morales Ayma became the first indigenous president of Bolivia. He was elected in the wake of a five-year period of popular rebellion that began with mass protests against water priv

Ryan C. Edwards received a PhD in History from Cornell University and has taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Princeton University, and Cayuga Correctional Facility in Upstate New York.Closer to Antarctica than to Buenos Aires, the port town of Ushuaia, Argentina is home to

September 27th, 2021 marks the 200-year anniversary of the day Mexico achieved independence. In honor of the date, we reached out to Silvia Marina Arrom to discuss her new book, La Güera Rodríguez: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osori