List of Contributors

Juan Pablo Bohórquez Montoya is the author of several books and articles on Colombian social movements, political sociology, political philosophy, and transnationalism. He is on the National Committee of the Popular Campesino Association (Colombia) and is director of Willow Springs Strategic Solutions—Colombia.

Michael Camp received his PhD in history from Emory University in 2017 and is the author of Unnatural Resources: Energy and Environmental Politics in Appalachia after the 1973 Oil Embargo (2019).

Paul Chastko is a senior instructor in the History Department at the University of Calgary, and the author of Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands, From Karl Clark to Kyoto (2004) and the forthcoming Globalization and the World Oil Industry.

Linda B. Hall is professor emerita of history at the University of New Mexico and the author or co-author of seven books on the history of the Mexican Revolution, the US-Mexican border, and religion, gender, and film in Latin America, including Oil, Banks, and Politics: The United States and Mexico, 1917–1924 (1995).

Pablo Heidrich is an international political economist specializing in natural resources and development in Latin America and associate professor of global and international studies at Carleton University. He has published several articles and book chapters, and his research has been supported by SSHRC, the IDRC, the Ford Foundation, the Marshall Foundation, and CIDA.

Amelia M. Kiddle is associate professor of history at the University of Calgary and the author or co-editor of three other books, including Mexico’s Relations with Latin America during the Cárdenas Era. She is completing a SSHRC-supported research project on the roots of resource nationalism in Latin America and the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938.

Daniel Macfarlane is associate professor of environment and sustainability at Western Michigan University and is the author or co-editor of four books, including Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall (2020) and Negotiating a River: Canada, the US, and the Creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway (2014).

Brian S. McBeth is an affiliate member of the Latin America Centre at Oxford University. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books on the history of Venezuela and other subjects, including Juan Vicente Gómez and the Oil Companies in Venezuela, 1908–1935 (1983) and Dictatorship and Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal and Survival in Venezuela, 1908–1935 (2008). His latest book, La política petrolera venezolana: Una perspectiva histórica, 1922–2005 (Venezuelan oil policy: A historical perspective) was published in Caracas in 2015.

Dermot O’Connor is a PhD candidate in political science at York University who studies conflict over land in Colombia. He is the principal consultant at Oak Road Concepts, where he conducts collaborative research with Indigenous communities on rights and energy development.

Joseph A. Pratt is professor emeritus at the University of Houston and author of Exxon: Transforming Energy, 1973–2005 (2013) and co-editor of Energy Capitals: Local Impacts, Global Influence (2014), as well as ten other books on the history of energy and the city of Houston.

Tyler Priest is associate professor of history and geography at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in the Postwar United States (2007) and the forthcoming Deepwater Horizons: The Epic Struggle over Offshore Oil in the United States.

Esteban Serrani received his doctorate in social sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. He is a full researcher in the Argentine CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) and coordinates the CLACSO Working Group on “Energy and Sustainable Development.” He is completing an Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación–supported research project exploring the relationship between energy models and industrial policy in Argentina.

Gail D. Triner is professor emerita of history at Rutgers and the author of Mining and the State in Brazilian Development (2015) and Banking and Economic Development: Brazil, 1889–1930 (2000), in addition to numerous articles and book chapters.

César Yáñez Gallardo received his PhD in history from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and was a full professor at the Universidad de Barcelona before returning to Chile to become full professor at the Universidad de Valparaíso. He is an economic historian and has published numerous articles and book chapters about energy history, in addition to his books The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data (co-authored with Albert Casrreras, 2012) and La renovada historia económica de Chile. Diez tesis (2021).