Melanie Peinado is the research coordinator for the Racist Histories and the American Historical Association project. She previously contributed to the AHA’s Bibliography of Historians’ Responses to COVID-19 and Remote Teaching Resources, two projects that were part of the NEH CARES grant-funded initiative, Confronting a Pandemic: Historians and COVID-19. Melanie earned her BA in history from California State University, Long Beach and her PhD in Latin American History from the University of California, Davis. She is a historian of science and medicine and gender and sexuality in modern Chile.