
Gary Van Valen, History, University of West Georgia
Dr. Van Valen holds a Doctoral degree in Latin American History from the University of New Mexico (2003). He is currently an Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of West Georgia. His recent book Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos In Liberalism and Rubber-Boom Bolivia 1842-1932 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014), obtained the prestigious award for Best Book in Latin American History by the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2015.
Change and Continuity in the Andes and Amazonia Working Group of the Humanities Institute and CLAS.