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Guillermo Castro |
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Guillermo Castro Herrera (Panamá, 1950) has a BA in Spanish American and Cuban Literature and Linguistics, from the Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, obtained in 1973. In 1980, he obtained a MSc in Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, with a research on relations between culture and politics in Latin America between 1880 and 1930, with special reference to the role played in these relations by intellectuals such as the cuban José Martí and the peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui. In 1997, he got a PhD in Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, with a research aimed at the definition of a framework for the study of the environmental history of Latin America. Since 2000, he works as Associated Academic Director at the City of Knowledge Foundation, in Panama. His book Naturaleza y Sociedad en la Historia de América Latina obtained the Casa de Las Américas Literary Award in Havana, Cuba, in 1974. He has also translated into Spanish antohologies of essays from Carl Sauer and Donald Worster, collaborates with the United Nations Environmental Program’s GEO process since 2006, and between 2006 and 2008 was President of the Latin American and Caribbean Society for Environmental History.
