Author: Clark A. Kim Clark

<i>Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador</i> chronicles the changing forms of indigenous engagement with the Ecuadorian state since the early nineteenth century that, by the be …

In 1921 Matilde Hidalgo became the first woman physician to graduate from the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. Hidalgo was also the first woman to vote in a national election and the first to h …

The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as a point of departure to explore questions of social his …