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Rachel A May Editor & Author

Rachel A. May is Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida. She is the author of Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954–1985 (2001). She is the co-editor and a contributor to (Un)Civil Societies: Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America (2007), and La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence (2014). Alejandro Schneider is Professor of History at both the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He is a labor historian who has worked on the history of armed and social movements in Latin America, and he is the author or editor of fourteen books on Argentine and Latin American history. Roberto González Arana is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Latin America and the Caribbean Studies at the University of the North (Uninorte) in Barranquilla, Colombia. His many publications include Dictaduras en el Caribe (2018) and Sociedades en conflicto: movimientos sociales en América Latina (2016).