Lina Britto

Lina Britto is a Colombian journalist and historian who teaches Latin American and Caribbean History at Northwestern University. She obtained her PhD degree in History from New York University, NYU, and was a postdoctoral and faculty fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. She has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, NACLA (NYC), Cáñamo (Spain), Contemporánea (Uruguay), El Espectador (Colombia), among others. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Tinker Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Charlotte Newcombe Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, among others. She lives in Chicago.

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Lina Britto es periodista e historiadora colombiana, profesora de historia latinoamericana y del Caribe en Northwestern University. Su grado de PhD en Historia lo recibió de New York University, NYU, y posteriormente fue miembro postdoctoral del Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en Hispanic American Historical Review, Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, NACLA (NYC), Cáñamo (España), Contemporánea (Uruguay), El Espectador (Colombia), además de otras revistas especializadas y medios de comunicación. Su investigación ha recibido becas de Tinker Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Charlotte Newcombe Foundation y Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, entre otros. Actualmente vive en Chicago.