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Hiram Bingham III
American academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician (1875–1956)
Alain Touraine
French sociologist (1925–2023)
Albert O. Hirschman
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
William Hickling Prescott
American historian and Hispanist (1796–1859)
Andre Gunder Frank
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)
Ricardo Piglia
Argentine writer (1941–2017)
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Argentinian author and journalist (1934–2010)
Ariel Dorfman
Chilean writer
Jorge Majfud
Uruguayan-American writer
Pierre Clastres
French anthropologist (1934-1977)
Miguel León Portilla
Mexican academic (1926–2019)
Antonio Candido
Brazilian writer, professor, sociologist and literary critic (1918–2017)
John Elliott
British historian (1930–2022)
Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Dominican Republic writer (1884-1946)
Dora María Téllez
Nicaraguan revolutionary, historian and politician
Maria Lugones
philosopher, feminist and university professor
Ruth Behar
Jewish Cuban American writer
Beatriz Sarlo
Argentine writer (1942–2024)
Silvio Zavala
Mexican historian (1909–2014)
Guillermo O'Donnell
Argentine academic, political scientist and writer (1936-2011)
Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen
Brazilian historian (1816–1878)
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American anthropologist
Ángel Rama
Uruguayan writer (1926-1983)
Eugen Relgis
Romanian academic (1895-1987)
Jorge Castañeda Gutman
Mexican politician
Néstor García Canclini
Argentinian anthropologist
William Robert Shepherd
American cartographer and historian (1871–1934)
Arturo Escobar
Colombian anthropologist
Ilan Stavans
Mexican-American author, publisher, TV personality, and teacher (born 1961)
Leopoldo Zea
Mexican philosopher (1912–2004)
Roberto Fernández Retamar
Cuban politician and writer (1930-2019)
Herbert Eugene Bolton
American historian (1870–1953)
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
American anthropologist
Nikolai Platoshkin
Russian politician, diplomat and historian
Óscar Hahn
Chilean writer
Emir Rodríguez Monegal
Uruguayan scholar, literary critic, and literary editor (1921–1985)
David Viñas
Argentine writer (1927-2011)
Walter Mignolo
Argentine semiotician
Ángel María Garibay K.
Mexican Mesoamericanist Holi (1892–1967)
Ștefan Baciu
Romanian and Brazilian writer (1918–1993)
Noé Jitrik
Argentine writer (1928–2022)
Frank Tannenbaum
American academic (1893–1969)
Iordan Chimet
Romanian writer; poet (1924-2006)
Robert Jaulin
French ethnologist (1928–1996)
Friedrich Katz
Austrian-born anthropologist and historian
Norma Alarcón
author and professor
Ignacio Martín-Baró
Spanish scholar, Jesuit priest, assassinated martyr in El Salvador (1942-1989)
James Lockhart
American historian of Latin America (1933–2014)
Michael Taussig
Australian anthropologist
Hugo Achugar
Uruguayan writer (born 1944)
Richard McGee Morse
Latin Americanist (1922–2001)
José Manuel Briceño Guerrero
Venezuelan philosopher
Charles Gibson
American Mesoamericanist
Roberto González Echevarría
Cuban literary critic
J. H. Parry
British maritime historian (1914–1982)
Greg Grandin
American historian
David Collier
American political scientist
Edward Gaylord Bourne
American historian (1860–1908)
Peter Kornbluh
American academic
Idania Fernandez
Nicaraguan revolutionary (1952-1979)