Nicolás Cabrera-Schneider is from Guatemala. He holds an M.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and an M.A. in Anthropology. Currently, Nicolás is a Ph.D. student in Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His research focuses on international policy outcomes in local communities. He has published on the effects of DR-CAFTA on local communities and political party comparisons between the U.S. and Guatemala. He has researched Nicaragua’s South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, as well as, in the western highlands, northern subtropical forest, and Caribbean coast of Guatemala. His community service includes working as a grant writer for two Guatemalan education-based non-profits. Additionally, Nicolás has published books of short stories, poetry, and novels.

At Tulane University since 2008, I. Carolina Caballero now holds a joint appointment at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese since January of 2020. She specializes in 20th and 21st century texts of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora, particularly in the genre of theater and performance. She teaches courses in English and Spanish in literary, cultural, and ethnic studies based in Latin and Latinx America and well as language courses. She is currently serving as interim advisor for the undergraduate major and minor in Latin American Studies and works to promote and advance the undergraduate program through curriculum development, activities, and networking and travel opportunities for students. As Associate Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute since 2012, she also organizes and plans events, hosts speakers, and collaborate on conferences on campus that highlight the region, and promotes travel and research among faculty and graduate students. She also co-directs and teaches on CCSI’s summer abroad programs for undergraduates in Cuba and Panamá.

I am an historian of Spain, with research concentration on the Castilian court and aristocracy in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. My monograph, The Courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the Court of Spain (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995; paperback reissue, 2017), surveyed the life and career of Philip II’s favorite the Prince of Eboli to illuminate the Prudent King’s manner of government, the dynamics and rivalries of his court, and the ambitions of noblemen and their possibilities for social ascent through royal favor. Subsequently I have published shorter works on subjects such as the fall (and afterlife) of the notorious seventeenth-century courtier Rodrigo Calderón, and on suicide in early modern Spain. For several years I have been at work on a book-length study tentatively entitled ‘An Apostle and a Roman’: Aristocracy, Counter-Reformation Piety, and the Cult of Honor in Habsburg Spain, which traces the shifting noble ethos of the period and argues that the characteristic conservative mentality of secular and clerical elites in later periods of Spanish history was largely a legacy of noble self-fashioning in the early modern centuries. My duties at Tulane extend also to regular teaching of medieval and modern Spanish history; I have directed three PhDs and co-directed two others, and have served on examination and dissertation committees of many colonial Latin Americanists as well as Europeanists. Outside of my principal research field, I have published on the Spanish military in the period of the transition to democracy, 1975-1982, and on providential interpretations of Hurricane Katrina.