Julia E. Rodriguez is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of the book Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (UNC Press, 2006); co-editor (with Adam Warren and Stephen T. Casper) of Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific (Cambridge UP, 2004); and a forthcoming book on the history of Americanist Anthropology in Latin America. She also created and edits the open-source teaching website HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org). A National Science Foundation CAREER awardee (2006-2011), Rodriguez’s work has also been recognized by the American Council of Learned Societies; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Association for the History of Medicine; the New England Council for Latin American Studies; and Harvard University. At the Bunche Institute, Rodriguez will work on a new book project, Kids Are People Too, a study of children’s rights in Europe and the Americas in the twentieth century.