Marianne Quijano is a Ph.D. candidate studying Latin American history with a specialization in Central America and the Caribbean. Her past research examined the role of Afro-Caribbean medicine and resistance in the history of U.S. empire-building in Panama’s Canal Zone. She is currently interested in exploring how medical theories of race influenced Panama’s national and transnational politics. In her dissertation, she seeks to map how both whiteness and indigeneity shaped discourses of postcolonial nationhood in Latin America’s intellectual past. Her work has been featured at the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the NACLA Report on the Americas, and she is a 2022-2023 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.