Las caravanas de camellos como modo de producción en la Afro-Eurasia posclásica. Una entrevista con Richard W. Bulliet

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• Richard Bulliet +

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  He is emeritus professor at the History Department of Columbia University. He specializes in the history of the so-called Middle East, the social and institutional history of the Islamic world, the history of technology, and the role of domestic animals in history. He lectures on topics such as Islamo-Christian civilization, the history of Islamic societies, North Africa, and Iran, as well as the history of technology. Bulliet has written many scholarly works, including The Camel and the Wheel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990 [1975]); Islam: The View from the Edge (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Hunters, Herders, and Hamburgers (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007); Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), and The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Vol. 1: To 1550 (Stamford: Cengage Learning, 2014). After his retirement, the Richard W. Bulliet Chair in Islamic History has been established in his honor at Columbia University.rwb3@columbia.edu

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  Columbia University, United States
• Constanza Castro +

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  She received her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (With distinction). In 2011 she obtained the Social Science Research Council (ssrc-acls), International Dissertation Research Fellowship, and also won the Whiting Foundation Fellowship from Columbia University. Presently she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Geography at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She is a member of the Global Urban History Project Board of Directors and an affiliate member of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (cesta), at Stanford University. Her recent publications included “The Enclosure of the Ejidos of Bogotá: Imperial Wars and the End of Common Lands in Colonial New Granada.” (Journal of Urban History 48, n.º4, 760-781, https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442211041972) and “Writing the liberal city: Historical consciousness and literary visions of economic change Bogotá 1849-1870,” (Textual Practice) (Forthcoming). ccastrobc@uniandes.edu.co

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  Universidad de los Andes
• Kaveh Yazdani +

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  He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Osnabrück (summa cum laude). In 2015, he was granted the Prince Dr. Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam and a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He taught economic and social history courses between 2017 and 2020 at the University of Bielefeld, attended as Visiting Professor of Global Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna in 2020 and works as Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut since 2021. In 2022, he obtained a residential visiting scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. His recent publications include Capitalisms: Towards a Global History, Oxford University Press: Delhi 2020 (co-edited with Dilip Menon), doi https://academic.oup.com/book/33687 and India, Modernity, and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th Century), Leiden/Boston: Brill 2017. kaveh.yazdani@uconn.edu

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  University of Connecticut, United States