Episode 5 - Marijuana & Masculinity: Colombia's First Drug Boom. A conversation with Lina Britto.

Conversations on Gender, Geography & Violence Against Women in Mexico & Central America.

Lina Britto is a Colombian historian, journalist, and an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. In this episode, we talk about her book, Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise, which came out in Spring 2020 with University of California Press.

Lina Britto received her PhD from New York University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. She has published her academic and journalistic work in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, NACLA: Report of the Americas (NYC), El Espectador (Bogotá), Universo Centro (Medellín), among others.