Lucas González holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame. He is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and a senior researcher at the Universidad Católica Argentina. He has held postdoctoral and visiting positions at institutions including Brown University, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Australian National University, and Universidad de Salamanca. He is the author of a Routledge book and has published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, World Development, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Latin American Politics and Society. His research examines how major sectoral interests (lithium mining, agribusiness, and real estate) affect local communities and their environment, focusing on deforestation and wildfires, and how subnational states and government alliances shape welfare in highly unequal contexts.

Isabel Güiza-Gómez is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University’s Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Peace Studies from the University of Note Dame. She is a research affiliate at the Notre Dame Eliminating Violence Against Women Lab and Bogotá-based think tank Dejusticia. Her research investigates the political economy of redistribution and social mobilization in post-conflict democracies, with a particular focus on class, racial, and ethnic politics in Latin America. At CIPR, she is developing her book manuscript, “Landing Peace. Rural-Poor Mobilization and Land Redistribution in Civil War Political Transitions,” which examines the conditions under which rural social movements—especially peasant, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous organizations—shape the redistribution of property rights in civil war peace processes in Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala.