Gustavo Cabrera Pinzón | Editor-in-Chief
Gustavo Cabrera Pinzón is a DPhil student in History at the University of Oxford, where his research examines the changing meanings and uses of democracy in early republican Mexico between 1810 and 1850. Drawing on political and intellectual history, his work explores how race, ethnicity, and republican traditions shaped the language of democracy and its relationship to political practice in nineteenth-century Mexico. He holds an MA in Modern History and International Relations from the University of St Andrews and an MSc in Latin American Studies from Oxford, where his dissertation traced the evolution of Mexican nationalism from 1823 to 1910. Originally from Mexico City, his DPhil is funded by the Mexican government’s Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI).
Douglas Castro-Quezada | Senior Editor
Douglas Castro-Quezada is a DPhil student in Area Studies (Latin America) at the University of Oxford and a Clarendon Scholar at St Antony’s College. His research examines the divergent trajectories of democratic erosion in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. He holds an MSc in Political Science from the London School of Economics (Chevening Scholar) and an MSc in Latin American Studies from Oxford (Distinction). Prior to exile, he was a researcher and lecturer at the Central American University in Nicaragua for eight years and was actively involved in defending democracy and human rights through Nicaraguan civil society. A Nicaraguan in exile, he writes from Oxford.
Henry Large | Senior Editor
Henry Large is a DPhil candidate in Area Studies (Latin America) at the University of Oxford. His research concerns the history of China and Taiwan’s competition for diplomatic relations in Latin America. Before the DPhil, he completed an MPhil in Latin American Studies at Oxford and a bachelor’s in Spanish and History at Yale University, where his thesis won the Spanish Department’s Bildner Prize for the best essay written in Spanish. His MPhil thesis was a historical study of Panama’s relations with China and the U.S. and included 3 months of fieldwork in Washington D.C. and Panama spent consulting archives and interviewing policymakers. For his doctoral research, he has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Taiwan. He has previously worked for an NGO in Guatemala and undertaken archival research in Peru.
Isabela Linares Uscher | Senior Editor
Isabela Linares Uscher is a doctoral researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Berlin. She holds an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Oxford, where she researched urban peace and criminal governance in Medellín for her thesis, “Between Crime and Politics: Urban Peace Dialogues in Colombia.” She also holds a B.A. in International Services from American University, where she concentrated on peace, conflict resolution, and security with a regional focus on Latin America. Her research interests examine how peace and violence operate beyond formal conflict, with particular emphasis on criminal governance structures, gender dynamics, and transnational actor networks within the Colombian conflict and post-agreement contexts. At Oxford, she served as President of Pembroke College’s Middle Common Room and President of the Oxford Latin American Society. She is also Founder and Board Member of Global Policy Commons, a non-profit dedicated to democratizing public policy knowledge.
