Mark Rice is a historian of Modern Latin America with a focus on Peru and the history of tourism. He is currently an associate professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru (University of North Carolina Press). His research on tourism and Latin American history has also appeared in edited anthologies and academic journals including the Radical History Review and the Journal of Latin American Studies.