New Book Out from Professor Nicholas Robins

The History Department congratulates Dr. Nicholas Robins on the publication of his newest book, The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru: Conflict and the Legacy of Exclusion, by Brill in their History of Warfare series.

Shining Path, which has also just been published in Spanish in Peru as Sendero Luminoso en Huancavelica, Peru: La herencia de conflicto y exclusion (Huancavelica: Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica, 2024), “is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru, one of Peru’s most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions.”

“Nicholas Robins holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, with concentrations in History, Political Science and Community Development. His research and publications concern Andean environmental and social history, legacy mining contamination, and indigenous rebellions. Dr. Robins is the founding president of the Bolivian Studies Association, and founding director of the Cuban Studies Institute at Tulane University. He also serves as director of NCSU’s Summer in Cuba Program and as president of the Environmental Health Council (www.ehcouncil.org), a non-profit 501 c 3 organization focusing on heavy metal contamination issues in the Andean region. Dr. Robins has been awarded three Fulbright research awards, an ORISE Fellowship with the EPA, and an honorary doctorate from the National University of Huancavelica, Peru.”