Looking Back and Moving Forward—Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Notes

1. Handy’s first monograph, Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala appeared in 1984. Revolution in the Countryside appeared in 1994.

2. For more on this, see Handy’s forthcoming volume Central America: A History of Dispossession and Resistance.

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Amelia M. Kiddle

Amelia M. Kiddle is an assistant professor of history and the coordinator of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Calgary. She has co-edited Populism in Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría (2010) and La expropiación petrolera Mexicana en la prensa de Latinoamérica (2014). She has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies and the Journal of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. Her monograph, Facing South: Mexican Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era, is forthcoming with the University of New Mexico Press.

Jim Handy is a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan and the recipient of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2015 Distinguished Fellow Award. His books Gift of the Devil: A History of Guatemala (1984) and Revolution in the Countryside: Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944–1954 (1994) and numerous articles have contributed to understanding the Guatemalan peasantry. He is past president of CALACS and has been a generous mentor to many grateful graduate students.