{"656434":{"#nid":"656434","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vergara Named Cisneros Visiting Scholar at Harvard University ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECongratulations to Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/german-vergara\u0022\u003EGerm\u0026aacute;n Vergara\u003C\/a\u003E, who was selected as the 2022-2023 Cisneros Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University!\u0026nbsp;He will spend next year in Boston, Massachusetts, working on his project \u003Cem\u003EBecoming History: Species Extinctions and Capitalism in Latin America Since 1800.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EVergara is an environmental\u0026nbsp;historian and published his first book, \u003Cem\u003EFueling Mexico: Energy and Environment,1850-1950\u003C\/em\u003E, in 2021. It was \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/649073\/vergara-book-fueling-mexico-aims-answer-childhood-question\u0022\u003Einspired by a childhood question\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;tells the story of energy history in Latin America for the first time, exploring the people, policies, and decisions that catapulted Mexico from wood to coal to oil dependency.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Harvard, Vergara plans to continue his research and begin drafting parts of his new book, \u003Cem\u003EBecoming History.\u003C\/em\u003E The project will study the interconnected economic, political, social, and environmental factors that have caused mammal, bird, and amphibian\u0026nbsp;population declines and species loss in the region over the past two centuries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Latin America is one of the global epicenters of the current extinction crisis, having lost over 100 animal species in the past few centuries,\u0026quot; Vergara said.\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;It is also the single most biologically diverse region in the world, yet there is virtually no historical scholarship on extinctions in the region.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBecoming History\u003C\/em\u003E will examine the historical causes behind Latin America\u0026rsquo;s current extinction crisis using a variety of sources, including government documents, scientific reports, natural histories, images, and photographs that Vergara has collected over the past two years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe appointment will also allow Vergara to build bridges between Harvard and Georgia Tech\u0026nbsp;and bring those connections and inspiration back to his students in the School of History and Sociology.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECongratulations, Germ\u0026aacute;n, on the well-deserved appointment!\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more about Vergara\u0026#39;s research on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/german-vergara\u0022\u003Ehis profile page\u003C\/a\u003E, and then explore \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/news\u0022\u003Emore news\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/events\u0022\u003Eupcoming events\u003C\/a\u003E in the School of History and Sociology!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"At Harvard, Assistant Professor Germ\u00e1n Vergara plans to begin drafting parts of his new book, \u0022Becoming History:\u00a0Species Extinctions and Capitalism in Latin America Since 1800.\u0022"}],"uid":"35766","created_gmt":"2022-03-17 15:19:32","changed_gmt":"2022-04-13 14:15:33","author":"dminardi3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"656435":{"id":"656435","type":"image","title":"Harvard University","body":null,"created":"1647531315","gmt_created":"2022-03-17 15:35:15","changed":"1647531315","gmt_changed":"2022-03-17 15:35:15","alt":"Library at Harvard with blooming green trees in the spring","file":{"fid":"248823","name":"16 x 9 Aspect Ratio (3200 x 1800 px) (5).jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16%20x%209%20Aspect%20Ratio%20%283200%20x%201800%20px%29%20%285%29.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/16%20x%209%20Aspect%20Ratio%20%283200%20x%201800%20px%29%20%285%29.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1106545,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/16%20x%209%20Aspect%20Ratio%20%283200%20x%201800%20px%29%20%285%29.jpg?itok=GI91t_UM"}}},"media_ids":["656435"],"groups":[{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDi Minardi\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Ediminardi@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["dminardi3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}