María de los Ángeles Picone, a fall 2022 visiting scholar, is assistant professor of history at Boston College. She is a historian of modern Latin America with an interest in nation making, border regions, spatial history, and the environment. Her current book project examines how people in the northern Patagonian Andes created new understandings of the nation.

Research interests: Latin American history; nation making; border regions; spatial history; environmental history; Chile; and Argentina.