Julie Gibbings

I am a historian of modern Latin America with a focus on Indigenous histories and collaborative methods, particularly in Guatemala. My research interests have ranged temporally across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and thematically from liberalism, political modernities, racial capitalism, and labour to, more recently, histories of cartographic sciences and technologies in Cold War counter-insurgency, insurrection, and megadevelopment. Through these varied interests, I have maintained a deeper focus on uncovering complex human stories, tending to the multiple ways of being and understanding the world, and centring the voices of those who are often marginalized and silenced. These research interests were undoubtedly shaped by my own background as a settler Canadian who was born and raised in the prairies in Treaty 4 territory of the nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation.