Institución de afiliación: Université de Bordeaux

Email: ronald.soto-quiros@u-bordeaux.fr

Costa Rican historian based in France. Researcher and professor in Latin American studies at the Université de Bordeaux (France) and member of the multidisciplinary team on the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America (AMERIBER) at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne.

Research topics:

• Historical construction of the so-called Costa Rican “whiteness”
• Migration policies
• Treatment and control of immigration in Costa Rica
• European travelers and their ethno-racial vision of the Central American populations

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Costa Rica

Email: lai.acon@ucr.ac.cr

• Doctor in English Literature from Washington State University.
• Professor at the School of Modern Languages at University of Costa Rica.
• Former Director of the Confucius Institute at UCR
• Coordinator of the Latin and Hispanic American Academic Network of Sinological Studies at UCR. (En la versión es español agregar al final de los atestados Coordinadora de la Red Académica Latino e Hispano Americanista sobre Estudios Sinológicos)

Her areas of expertise are cultural studies, literatures in English, and academic writing.

Research topics:

• Cultural Studies and Postcolonialism
• Film Studies and Chinese American Literatures
• Nation formation and identity in Hong Kong
• Chinese diasporas in the United States and Costa Rica

Institución de afiliación: Universidad Estatal a Distancia

Email: arodriguez@uned.ac.cr

Chair of the History Department and researcher of the Vice-rectory for Research at UNED.

Research topics:

• Historical processes of Chinese migrations to Costa Rica and Latin America
• Cultural Heritage in rural and cross-border spaces
• Economic history and European history

Institución de afiliación: Universidad Estatal a Distancia

Email: flig@uned.ac.cr

Chair of the Law Department and researcher of the Vice-rectory for Research at UNED.

Research topics:

• Chinese immigration in Costa Rica
• Agricultural and commercial activities of Chinese immigrants in Costa Rica
• Agrarian legislation and its social development in various communities of Costa Rica

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Costa Rica

Email: RICARDO.MARTINEZESQUIVEL@ucr.ac.cr

• Professor and researcher at the Pacific Regional Headquarters of the University of Costa Rica (UCR).
• Coordinator of International Affairs and External Cooperation.
• Coordinator of the Latin and Hispanic American Academic Network of Sinological Studies at UCR. 

Research topics:

• Catholic mission in China, 16th-18th centuries
• The global Chee Kung Tong 致公堂 network in Latin America
• History of Freemasonry in Latin America and China

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Costa Rica

Email: susan.chen@ucr.ac.cr

• Professor and researcher at the Pacific Regional Headquarters of the University of Costa Rica (UCR).
• Former director of the Pacific Regional Headquarters.

Research topics:

• Tourism
• Regional development
• Law and IT
• Education
• Chinese immigration

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Minnesota, Morris

Email: bnarvaez@morris.umn.edu

• Assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
• Researcher of the history of Chinese immigration in Latin America.

https://academics.morris.umn.edu/benjamin-narvaez

Research topics:

• History of Latin America 19th and 20th centuries
• History of race and ethnicity
• History of immigration, and studies of the Chinese diaspora

Institución de afiliación: Docente e investigadora de la Escuela de Antropología de la Universidad de Costa Rica.

• Bachelor in Anthropology.
• Graduate Studies in Administration of Cultural Projects, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Academic Master's Degree in Linguistics.UCR.
• Academic Doctorate in Studies of Society and Culture. UCR.
• Professor at the UCR School of Anthropology.
• Coordinator of the Thematic Chair "Heritage and Cultural Diversity". UCR.

Research topics:

• Intangible cultural heritage
• Tourism and migration
• Ethnic-linguistic diversity
• Discrimination and otherness
• Lexicography

• Estudiante de la Maestría de Antropología de la Universidad de Costa Rica
• Estudiante de la Licenciatura en Derecho de la Universidad de Costa Rica

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Costa Rica

Email: ilamchen89@gmail.com

• Cultural manager of the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica.
• Director of Global Metro Art
• Professor at the University of Costa Rica.
• Master in strategic management, works mainly in the visual arts, experimentation and new media.

Research topics:

• Human rights
• Migration
• Feminism
• LGBTIQ issues
• China studies.

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Costa Rica

Email: davidibar@yahoo.es

• Doctor in Chinese History, Beijing Normal University (北京 师范大学).
• Professor and researcher at the School of History and at the School of Humanities at University of Costa Rica.
• Member of the editorial committee of the Humanities Magazine.

Research topics:

• History of Sino-Latin American cultural relations
• Educational experiences of overseas Chinese
• Chinese policies towards the huaqiao

Institución de afiliación: Universidad de Hyogo en Kobe, Japón

Email: sonoda@em.u-hyogo.ac.jp

She currently teaches East Asian Studies and Global History in the School of Economics and Management. She was a visiting fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 2000-01, and a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Global History, 2016-17. Her study on the transnational nature of Chinese communities in the Americas and the extra-territorial policies of the Qing Empire relating to them won the 7th Iue Asia Pacific Research Prize from the Asia Pacific Forum Awaji Conference Japan in 2008.

Research topics:

• ROC’s extra-territorial policy regarding Chinese immigrants in Latin America
• the transnational nature of Chinese communities in the Americas