EP #461 - 3.10.2022 - Disasters and COVID in Latin America w/Mark Healey

Today I welcome historian of Latin America and disaster, Mark Healey.

Mark Healey is an urban, environmental, and political historian of Latin America, and also a fellow disaster scholar. The author of “The Ruins of the New Argentina” (Duke, 2011), he is currently writing a book about the environmental and political history of water in the drylands of Argentina, as well as a project about the transnational political history of housing and development. He has taught at NYU, the University of Mississippi, UC Berkeley and, since 2011, the University of Connecticut, where he is now Head of Department.