Paulo Drinot enseña historia en University College London. Es autor The Allure of Labor: Workers, Race, and the Making of the Peruvian State (2011), editor de Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America (2010) y Peru in Theory (2014), y co-editor de The Great Depression in Latin America (2014), Comics and Memory in Latin America (2017) y The Peculiar Revolution: Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule (2017).
