Southern Affairs publishes investigative reporting, historical research, and critical reviews about current events and topics in Latin America.
The site was founded in 2006 by N. H. Gill, PhD, a professor of history and former bureau chief and emerging markets reporter for Bloomberg News in Ecuador and Chile. His research focuses on environmental conflict, natural resource extraction, and forced labor in the Andes. Gill holds a PhD in Latin American history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA from the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile, and BAs in Philosophy and Anthropology from North Carolina State University. He has taught courses on Latin American, environmental, and global history at Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and North Carolina Central University. He has also served as a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellow in Ecuador and a visiting research associate professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
Newsletter | Nature Wars
Southern Affairs also publishes Nature Wars, a newsletter analyzing environmental conflict and natural resource markets in Ecuador. Combining over two decades of investigative reporting and historical research, it provides expert insight into the political, economic, social, and environmental conflicts driving risk in the Andean nation’s oil, mining, and bond markets.
Contact:
Nathan H. Gill, PhD
Publisher, Southern Affairs
nhgill@southernaffairs.org
