Trained as a historian of Latin America (M.A. & Ph.D., Harvard University) with a background in economics (B.A., Swarthmore College), I am interested in food, drugs, commodities, capitalism, business, & ethnohistory.

Nicole Darnall is the Kogod Eminent Scholar Chair in Sustainability at American University and Foundation Professor Emerita at ASU. Her research investigates organizations’ and individuals’ sustainability behaviors.

Ligia Bezerra has taught Portuguese, Spanish, and English in Brazil and in the U.S. Her research interests include Latin American literature and culture, consumption, everyday life, neoliberalism, and democracy.