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Editor in Chief

Carmen Martínez Novo is Professor of Latin American Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Who Defines Indigenous? Identities, Development, Intellectuals and the State in Northern Mexico (Rutgers, 2006), and editor of Repensando los movimientos indígenas (FLACSO, 2009). She has coedited journal issues and published numerous articles and book chapters on indigenous identities and politics in Mexico and Ecuador. She was a 2017–2018 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, among other grants and scholarships. Before becoming the editor in chief of LARR she was an associate editor at LARR. Previously, she served as associate editor at Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and America Latina Hoy. Martínez Novo was a member of the Executive Council of LASA (2014–2016) and Chair of the LASA sections Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (2016–2018) and Ecuadorian Studies (2009–2011).

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Associate Editor for Anthropology

Juan Carlos Callirgos is an Associate Professor of the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in Lima. He has served as the coordinator of the Especialidad de Antropología, and is part of the faculty of four Master’s programs (Anthropology, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Community Psychology) and three Doctoral programs (Anthropology, History, and Psychoanalysis) at the PUCP. He earned his MA and PhD in Latin American History from the University of Florida. His undergraduate studies in Anthropology were also at the PUCP. His research focuses on racism, ethnicity, gender and masculinities, postcolonial history, and national identity. He served as the principal researcher of a project on race and ethnicity in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru, funded by CARE, and was part of the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA). He is the author of El racismo: La cuestión del otro (y de uno) (DESCO, 1993), and Sobre héroes y batallas: Los caminos de la identidad masculina (Escuela para el Desarrollo, 1996), as well as several chapters in edited collections and journal articles in Peru and abroad.

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Associate Editor for Cultural Studies

Pavel Shlossberg is Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Graduate Program in Communication at Gonzaga University. In 2019, he was a Research Fellow in “Social Movements and the Construction of Peace” at the Institute of Intercultural Studies at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia. He has a PhD in Communications from Columbia University. He is the author of Crafting Identity: Transnational Indian Arts and the Politics of Race in Central Mexico (Arizona, 2015). The book was awarded a book completion subvention by the National Endowment from the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. In 2016–2017, he was the Guest Curator for the exhibit Crafting Identity: Masks and the Pastorela in Michoacán, Mexico at the Jundt Art Museum in Spokane, Washington. Shlossberg is an editorial board member of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and the Journal of Hate Studies.

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Associate Editor for Economics

Lena Lavinas is Professor of Welfare Economics at the Institute of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at CNPQ. Most of her research focuses on Brazil’s socio-economic development; financialization issues; social policies and institutional arrangements; the evolution of welfare regimes and comparative analysis of social protection systems; gender asymmetries in the labor market. She was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2019–2020). She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Development and Change (2018–2023) and an Associate Researcher at CIEPP (Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudios de las Políticas Públicas) in Buenos Aires. She was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (2016–2017). She worked as Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor in the Program of Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Princeton University in 2013. In 2012, she was invited as a Visiting Research Fellow to desigualdades.net – Research Network on Social Inequalities in Latin America - at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1993 to 2000, she worked as Senior Economist, at the Social Policy Direction, at the Institute of Research in Applied Economics (IPEA), at the Ministry of Planning, Brazil. She has also been Senior Social Policy Analyst at the ILO from 2000 to 2003. Among her recent publications are The Takeover of Social Policy by Financialization: The Brazilian Paradox (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); A Moment of Equality for Latin America? Challenges for Redistribution, coedited with Barbara Fritz (Ashgate, 2015); “The Collateralization of Social Policy by Financial Markets in the Global South” (in The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization, 2020); with Denise Gentil, “Social Policy since Rousseff: Misrepresentation and Marginalization” (in Latin American Perspectives, 2020); “The Collateralization of Social Policy under Financialized Capitalism” (in Development and Change, 2018).

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Associate Editor for History

Heather Vrana, Associate Professor of Modern Latin America in the Department of History at the University of Florida, is a historian of disability, human rights, youth, and student movements in Central America whose current book project is Guerrilla Medicine and Disability in Cold War Central America. Vrana is author of This City Belongs to You: A History of Student Activism in Guatemala (University of California Press, 2017), editor of the anthology Anti-colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983 (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), coeditor with Julie Gibbings of Out of the Shadow: Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala (University of Texas Press, 2020), and author of articles in the Journal of Genocide Research, the Radical History Review, and elsewhere. Her article “The Precious Seed of Christian Virtue: Charity, Disability, and Belonging in Guatemala, 1871–1947” is forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Vrana has conducted archival and oral history research in Central America since 2007, focusing first on Guatemala, then on Nicaragua and El Salvador. Around 2010, she observed how young people used truth and reconciliation rhetorics to narrate harm caused by state violence while remaining skeptical of official human rights processes for their emphasis on death counts as the measure of trauma. From this observation and the paradoxical ubiquity/invisibility of disabled people, she formulated her current research. Recently, Vrana’s research received support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, University of Florida Humanities Enhancement Fund, University of Florida Global Fellows, and Connecticut State University Board of Regents.

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Associate Editor for Literature and Literary Criticism

Christopher Britt Arredondo teaches Spanish and Latin American literature at The George Washington University. His research centers on the convergence of aesthetic and political discourses in national, imperial, and post-colonial contexts. He is the author of Quixotism: The Imaginative Denial of Spain’s Loss of Empire (2005); Imperial Idiocy: A Reflection on Forced Displacement in the Americas (2017); with Paul Fenn and Eduardo Subirats Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction: Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire (2018); and with Eduardo Subirats Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle (2021). He is currently working on a new book project, tentatively titled “Modern translatio imperii,” which studies the various roles that intellectuals played in the transfer of imperial power from Spain to the United States at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

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Associate Editors for Politics and International Relations

Abby Córdova is an associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs and a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She was the 2016-2017 Central American Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. Córdova completed her graduate studies at Vanderbilt University, where she obtained a PhD in Political Science. At Vanderbilt, she served as the lead researcher of USAID’s Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) impact evaluation study by the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). Córdova’s research examines the consequences of inequality and marginalization for democracy, integrating topics related to crime and violence, gender inequality, economic inequality, and international migration in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is currently working on a book project that explores how criminal governance makes women more vulnerable to gender-based violence and its consequences for women’s political engagement. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including World Politics, Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Research Review, and Latin American Politics and Society. Córdova’s research has been recognized with the 2020 Southern Political Science Association (SPSA)’s Marian Irish Award and the 2017 Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)’s Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for best paper on women and politics.

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Jana Morgan is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. Her research explores how patterns of economic, social, and political marginalization undermine democratic institutions and outcomes. She is the recipient of the Latin American Studies Association’s Van Cott Award for Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse (Penn State, 2011), which demonstrates how party systems' failure to provide adequate linkages between society and the state precipitate their collapse. Her research on parties, representation, and inequality has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Pew Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hayes program and has appeared in numerous journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and Latin American Research Review. She tweets at @prof_jmorgan

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Associate Editor for Sociology

Joel Stillerman is Professor of Sociology and Faculty-in-Residence in the Honors College at Grand Valley State University. He received his PhD in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. He also taught at the University of Arizona and Universidad Diego Portales. He received Fulbright awards for research in Chile and is co-recipient (with Peter Winn) of a Ford-LASA Special Projects grant. He is the author of The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach (Polity, 2015) and coeditor (with Ana Cárdenas and Felipe Link) of ¿Qué significa el trabajo hoy? Continuidad y cambio en una sociedad global (Catalonia, 2012). His publications on labor, consumption, urban sociology, and middle classes in Chile and Latin America appear in Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Poetics, Estudios Urbanos y Regionales (EURE), Política, Revista Alameda, Revista de Estudios Avanzados, Political Power and Social Theory, City & Community, Qualitative Sociology, Mobilization, Social Science History, International Labor and Working-Class History, and several edited volumes. He was chair of the LASA Section on Labor Studies (2001–2004) and Task Force on Labor Relations (2006–2008). He served as LASA Program Track Chair for Labor Studies and Class Relations (2013).

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Book Review Editor

Fabrice Lehoucq is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is a specialist in comparative politics, democratic politics, and political economy. Lehoucq is the author of several books, including the first author of Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Democratization, and Electoral Reform in Costa Rica (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and of The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, and the Journal of Latin American Studies, among other journals. He has received support for his research from the Inter-American Development Bank, Kellogg Institute (University of Notre Dame), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the World Bank. At present, he is at work on a book manuscript called “Political Instability and its Legacies: Regime Trajectories in Latin America.” He has been the Book Review Editor for the Latin American Research Review since 2016. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Duke University (1992). His website is: http://www.uncg.edu/~f_lehouc.

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Documentary Film Review Editor

Dr. Héctor Amaya is a Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Prior to joining Annenberg, Dr. Amaya was Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the past Chair of the UVA’s Department of Media Studies. He is a past member of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton, NJ in the School of Social Science. Dr. Amaya was born and raised in Mexico and began his education at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. After completing a Masters in Communication Studies at the University of Calgary (Canada), Dr. Amaya continued on with a PhD in Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Amaya’s research, writing, and teaching engage with the areas of globalization, Latin American media, comparative media studies, immigration, and Latinas/os media studies. His most recent work, Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2020), analyzes the way Mexico’s criminal drug violence and new media technologies structure publicness in Mexico and the United States. His previous book, Citizenship Excess: Latinas/os, Media and the Nation (NYU Press, 2013), proposes a new way of theorizing U.S. citizenship that can better accommodate the lived political and media realities of Latinas/os; his first book, Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War (University of Illinois Press, 2010), is a comparative study of film reception of Cuban film, cultural criticism, and citizenship in Cuba and the USA from the 1960s to 1985.

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Social Media Coordinator

Paloma Diaz, a native of Chile,  serves as the Social Media Coordinator for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the Latin American Research Review (LARR) and the Latin American Research Commons (LARC). She is also the Associate Director of Programs and Faculty Liaison for LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections of The University of Texas at Austin.  In addition, she is a council member for the Latin American Studies Center Directors Section and the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP). Paloma received a MA in International Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University and a BA in Social Work from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile.  She has extensive experience developing and coordinating international conferences throughout the Americas and working in coordination with higher education institutions as well as government institutions and nonprofit organizations. She currently manages about 50 social media accounts for LASA, LARR, LARC, and LLILAS Benson.

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Managing Editor

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Editorial Assistant

Daniel J. Fernández-Guevara is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Florida. His work explores the legacies of Spanish colonialism, transnational flows and memory. His dissertation, “Weaponizing Solidarity: Spanish Republican Exiles, Identity, and the Cuban Revolution, 1929-1976,” examines the impact of Spanish Republican exiles on Cuban solidarity movements in the twentieth century. Daniel published the article “Constructing Legitimacy in ‘Stone’ and ‘Words’ During Cuba’s Second Republic: Building and Contesting Fulgencio Batista’s José Martí” in the September 2019 issue of History and Memory, and has published two book reviews for the journal Cuban Studies. Prior to his position as Editorial Assistant at LARR, Daniel interned for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida, coordinating a project between UF and the University of Texas and conducting interviews with Latinx victims of Covid-19. He received University of Florida’s Department of History Roger Haigh Award for Excellence in Latin American History (2019), McKnight Doctoral Fellowship, and University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection Pre-Prospectus Fellowship (2015). A native of New Jersey, he has conducted research in Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Holland, and several archives within the United States.

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Journal Manager

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