The Latinoamericanist Podcast
Conversations across languages, cultures and borders from the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge
Hosted by David Lehmann
The Latinoamericanist podcast is designed to be a source of stimulation, information and entertainment for Latin Americanists worldwide. It is supported by the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in England with a team including social scientist David Lehmann, anthropologist Natalia Buitrón, historian Adrián Lerner and Paola A. Lopez as producer. The podcast consists of conversations that will appeal to Latin Americanists across the world, and the language is English, Spanish or Portuguese, depending on the guests.
We aim to range widely across all the disciplines and periods encompassed by Latin American Studies, to invite gifted communicators whose teaching and writing crosses boundaries established by convention, by ideology, or by informal epistemic networks.
We welcome comments and suggestions, and you can reach us by writing to adl1@cam.ac.uk
David Lehmann, 2025
Image © Paola A. Lopez
David Lehmann is a social scientist. During a career at Cambridge University spanning four decades he taught in Development Studies, Sociology and the Centre for Latin American Studies which he directed in the 1990s. His research has ranged from Agrarian Reform (in Chile) to peasant economies (in Ecuador) and religion and ethnicity (in Brazil). In recent years he has published The Crisis of Multiculturalism and After the Decolonial: ethnicity, gender and social justice in Latin America. A study of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God entitled From Megachurch to Metachurch is due out late in 2026.