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Andrés Bustamante Agudelo is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, University of Oxford. He is a historian of modern Latin America and a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas. His research examines the intertwined histories of archaeology, resource extraction, and sovereignty in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada is the Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico, at the Faculty of History and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (Latin America Centre, LAC). She is also the Mexico Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, at Oxford University, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH), in México. She convenes the Oxford History Faculty undergraduate FS paper on Modern Mexico, and the LAC MSc paper on Histories of Race, Nation, and Migration. Her research engages Latin America and Asia, with a focus on the histories of Japan and Mexico, race and racism, and migration studies. She is currently developing her first monograph provisionally titled: Non-ethics of war: Racism, Dispossession, and the Concentration system in the Disappearance of the Japanese in Mexico. Her research has been published and is forthcoming with the Historical Journal, the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Latin American History, and Global Studies Quarterly. Jessica is also one of the primary history expert contributors to the landmark BBC Arts documentary series Civilisations: Rise and Fall.

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