Marixa LASSO

Dr. Marixa A. Lasso is a historian and the first director of the CIHAC AIP. She is the author of the books Myths of Harmony (Pittsburgh University Press, 2007) and Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal (Harvard Press 2019), which won the 2020 Friedrich Katz Prize for Latin American and Caribbean History from the prestigious American Historical Association, and the William M. LeoGrande Prize for relations between Latin America and the United States. She is a member of the editorial board of the Hispanic American Historical Review. She has also written academic articles for several books and for respected international journals, as well as opinion articles for newspapers such as the Washington Post, El Espectador, La Prensa and La Estrella de Panamá. In 2018 she curated the exhibition: Las Preguntas de Don Justo and in 2021 she was the co-curator of the exhibition Camino a la Independencia. She has received important international fellowships from institutions such as the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright and the Wenner Gren Foundation. In 2016 she was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University. She has taught at universities in the United States and Colombia. She is a member of the SNI of Panama and an associate researcher with the STRI. Her work has been published in Spanish, English and Portuguese and her book Erased was published in Spanish by Critica / Planeta and in Chinese by the Guangdong People's Press.

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