Paul Katz studies Latin American history, with a particular focus on the dictatorships and civil wars of the late twentieth century, and on the constructs of human rights and transitional justice that shape international perceptions of and approaches to these regimes....

I am interested in the history of nature and standards: how the historical moments in which people tried to define nature made them redefine humanity, too? My work examines the ways in which people constructed, regulated and standardized non-human factors (the...

Lotte Houwink ten Cate is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. She focuses on intellectual and legal history, western Europe, and the history of sexuality. Her particular interests include criminal law, feminist thought, and the...

Sara Hidalgo is a P.h.D. candidate in Latin American history at Columbia University. Her interests include the history labor, welfare, family and public health in Latin America. Her doctoral dissertation, preliminary titled “Informal Lives: Family, Labor and...