Lily Balloffet

Lily Balloffet is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Argentina in the Global Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2020). Her research and teaching focus on the topics of hemispheric mobilities, social movements, Latin American hip-hop, and inter-American relations. Her current book project, “American Venom,” a history of antivenom medicines, explores how the development of this medicine has been shaped by the ways in which humans share space with venomous animals across Latin America.