R.A. Kashanipour is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and an interdisciplinary scholar of medicine and science in Latin America and the early modern Atlantic world. His research examines the intersections of experience and epistemology in the production of knowledge and institutions of colonial authority related to disease, health, and the body. He is currently completing a book, titled Between Magic and Medicine: Colonial Yucatec Healing in the Spanish Atlantic World, and is series editor of Routledge Research in New Colonial Histories of Latin America.