
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Regina, Canada.
Kristin Ciupa
Dr. Kristin Ciupa teaches sociology of development and sociology of disaster. With a background in Sociology, Political Science and Law, her work is interdisciplinary and has focused on Venezuela, Latin America, Canada and the international. Her research explores natural resource extraction through an analysis of the interrelation between local and international development processes, markets and social relations. She has also written on how Canadian law and international law are shaped by relations of power between social actors in the neoliberal era.

Sociologist and Social Anthropologist, CONAHCYT/CIESAS-CDMX, Mexico
Dolores Figueroa
Professor at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Mexico City. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from York University, Canada. Her academic expertise focuses on conceptualizing structural, social, and extreme violence against indigenous women in rural areas and critically dialoguing with the anti-feminicide feminist advocacy work in Mexico.

Associate Professor, Department of Community Economic and Social Development, Algoma University, Canada.
Sheila Gruner
I work with Indigenous, Black-Afrodescendant, women's, environmental and human rights activist-scholars. My work involves gender/race critique, examination of the nexus bt forced displacement/exile, development, conflict/violence; critical/ethnicity and peace, justice, environmental governance/self-determination; Institutional ethnography, participatory action research, political ecology; Colombian Truth Commission (Ontario Node). Institute of Peoples Territories and Pedagogies for Peace, Bogota.

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, Canada.
Jasmin Hristov
Dr. Jasmin Hristov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Guelph Institute of Development Studies. Prior to joining the University of Guelph, she was Assistant Professor of Global Sociology at UBC Okanagan. Her research expertise is in the areas of development and conflict, political violence, non-state armed groups, economic globalization, agrarian movements, and gender violence.
Dr. Hristov is presently the principal investigator for the SSHRC-funded project Land Violence, Security and Development in Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. Previously, she led two SSHRC-funded projects on violence, land dispossession and human rights violations in Central America and Mexico where she carried out over one hundred interviews and a number of focus groups.
She is the author of the books Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism: Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond (Pluto Press 2014) and Blood and Capital: the Paramilitarization of Colombia (Ohio University Press 2009) as well as the lead editor of the volume Paramilitary groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security (Routledge 2022).
Her work includes refereed articles featured in Sociology of Development, Studies in Political Economy, Canadian Review of Sociology, Journal of Peasant Studies, Latin American Perspectives, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Labour, Capital and Society, Islamic Perspective: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities and Social Justice as well as chapters in Gender and Development: the Economic Basis of Women’s Power (2019), Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Post-Colonial Perspectives (2020), and The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies (2020).
Dr. Hristov is also the recipient of the Early Investigator Award (2019) from the Canadian Sociological Association.

Luisa Isidro Herrera
Luisa Isidro is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. Her proposed ethnographic
research aims to analyze the alternative forms of security developed by women who undertake
these duties in the face of the experiences of death, abuse, and displacement that they and their
families and communities have suffered during both the armed conflict and the post-agreement
era. Drawing on research on feminist geopolitics and grassroots practices that exercise protection
for people on the ground (or alter-geopolitics), she aims to explore how Indigenous women's
relationships with land provide alternative security during territorial disputes, and create
connections within, through, and beyond the state to ensure dignity, justice, and buen vivir.
Likewise, this research aims to examine how these women meet, seek, generate, and implement
non-violent collective resistance to address everyday violence while weaving connections with
similar women’s organizations. Her research puts diversity of perspectives, gender, race, language,
Indigenous knowledge, and regional representation at the heart of the Social Sciences by analyzing
concepts that have been primarily men-driven and west-led like ‘security’ and ‘violence’ and
introducing new concepts such as nonviolent practices and solidarity.

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary, Canada.
Amelia Kiddle
Dr. Kiddle is Associate Professor of Latin American history and Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of Arts. She specializes in the political and cultural history of Mexican foreign relations and received the Killam SSHRC Emerging Research Leader Award from the University of Calgary in 2014. She is the co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) and she has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies, ISTOR. Revista de Historia Internacional, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, The Jahrbuch fur Geschichte Lateinamerikas - Anuario de Historia de America Latina, The Latin Americanist, and Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Her co-edited volume with María L.O. Muñoz, Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2010. Her first monograph, Mexico's Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era, which is based upon her University of Arizona doctoral dissertation (winner of the 2010 Premio Genaro Estrada from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs) was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2016.
As an outgrowth of this project, she developed an interest in the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938's place in inter-American affairs. She and her colleague in Mexico, Cecilia Zuleta published an anthology of newspaper articles from Latin America reacting to the expropriation and she is completing a book tentatively titled The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 and the Roots of Resource Nationalism in Latin America, a project which is supported by an Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dr. Kiddle spent 2017-2018 working on this project as a fellow of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. http://arts.ucalgary.ca/cih/ Her most recent edited volume, Energy in the Americas: Critical Reflections on Energy and History, which was the result of a SSHRC-supported conference of the same name held in 2014, was published in 2021 by the University of Calgary Press.
As well as supervising undergraduate and graduate students in Latin American history at the University of Calgary, she welcomes Latin American students to work with her in Calgary through the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship Program https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/globalink-research-internship and the Government of Canada's Emerging Research Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) http://www.scholarships-bourses.gc.ca/scholarships-bourses/can/institutions/elap-pfla.aspx?lang=eng

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
Vice-President
Donald Kingsbury
Don Kingsbury teaches in Political Science and Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. Among my responsibilities as one of CALACS’s two Vice Presidents, my favourite is without a doubt working on the annual congress which allows me to collaborate with local hosts and explore the exciting work of our members. My own research dwells at the intersection of the climate crisis, energy transitions, and resource extraction in the Americas, with a focus on the comparative political ecology of lithium mining. With an emphasis on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile (the so-called ‘Lithium Triangle’) as well as Canada, the on-going results of this work can be found in journals such as Extractive Industries and Societies, Global Environmental Politics, Cultural Studies, and The Anthropocene Review.
Professor, Department of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
Michael D. Kirkpatrick
Dr. Kirkpatrick is an Associate Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He specializes in 19th and 20th century Guatemala with emphasis on the social and cultural history of Guatemala City. He has been the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies since 2019.

Ph.D Candidate in Politics, York University, Canada
Chris Little
Chris Little is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. His doctoral dissertation research looks at transnational processes of agrarian change and agricultural labour migration between Guatemala and Canada. The work is rooted in labour-centred field research with migrant farmworkers, so as to foreground their perspectives on agriculture and their role within it, both in Canada and back home in Guatemala. His most recent publication is a chapter entitled 'The Extraction of Migrant Labor-Power' in the edited volume The Labor of Extraction in Latin America, published by Rowman and Littlefield. He is an Assistant Editor at the Socialist Register.

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
Vice-President
Lucy Luccisano
After receiving my PhD in Sociology from York University in 2002, I joined the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002. I teach courses in the undergraduate program, including Introduction to Sociology, Gender and Development, Poverty and Social Inequality as well as courses in the sociology graduate program.
My research falls within the areas of political sociology, international development and gender, Mexican social policy and comparative urban policy and security in North America. My initial research on conditional cash-transfer program examined Mexican social policy as an example of global poverty alleviation trends. My later research examined the ways in which poverty programs were experienced by poor women and how social policy was intertwined with practices of clientelism and citizenship. My SSHRC Insight Development grant is a collaborative project with Paula Maurutto (University of Toronto), Laura Macdonald and Jill Wigle (Carleton University) which compares urban social policies and security Mexico City, New York City and Toronto.

Chancellor's Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada.
President
Laura Macdonald
Laura Macdonald is a Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, where she has taught since 1990. She has published numerous articles in journals and edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Mexican politics, theories of regionalism, Canadian development assistance, the political impact of North American integration and the rights of temporary foreign workers in Canada. She has edited six books and is author or co-author of two books. She currently has a grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to study transnational activism in North America, with a special focus on labour rights, migrant rights, and human rights in Mexico. Other recent work looks at Canada’s role in Latin America, policies to reduce crime and violence in Mexico City, and gender and trade. She is currently President of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Research Fellow, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Shiva S. Mohan
Shiva S. Mohan is a Research Fellow in the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration program at Toronto Metropolitan University. He is a human geographer with research interests situated at the interface of migration and mobility studies, island studies and political geography. His work seeks to unearth the ambivalences, contradictions and precarities within migrants’ lived experiences, in addition to those faced by territories vis à vis transnational migrations. In particular, Shiva's work has focused on irregular migration in the southern Caribbean (flows from Venezuela to Trinidad & Tobago), and Canada. Before joining CERC Migration, Shiva was an assistant professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he taught social, cultural and development geography courses. He is also a Research Associate at the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, where he co-produces the podcast "Displacements". He is a member of the Migration and Development Research Cluster at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), The University of the West Indies. He is also an associated researcher and trustee with the Swiss-based research NGO, Environmental Mobility Research Unit (EMRU).
Roque Urbieta Hernandez
Roque URBIETA Hernández is a research associate in the research line "Le politique à l'épreuve dans les Amériques des XVIe-XXIe siècles" at the Lab Mondes Américains/CERMA-École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France. His research is situated within the fields of Political and Legal Anthropology, Sociology of Diplomacy, and International Studies. He completed a postdoctoral in Political Science at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in collaboration with CIESAS, CDMX. As part of her doctoral research in Social Anthropology and Ethnography at the EHESS and her Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, Roque used ethnographic methods to observe how indigenous and non-indigenous women in the State of Oaxaca (southern Mexico) challenged male domination in order to establish their political agency around the discourse of human rights culture. Roque has considerable experience in the implementation of projects on ‘Indigenous Women in the Political World’ and ‘Indigenous Women in International Relations’ funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the Ministry of Education in Spain, the Autonomous University of Madrid, as well as the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her most recent research project is concerned with the emergence of Indigenous Diplomacy in Latin America. In particular, it examines the formation of political and regional groups in cohesion blocs within the United Nations system and the redefinition of the concept of Global Governance.