Neil Safier is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Brown University and currently serves as Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He also maintains affiliations with the Department of Hispanic Studies, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative. He received his Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 2004 and has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (Chicago, 2008; paperback edition, 2012; Spanish translation, 2016) and Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2023, co-edited with Joan-Pau Rubiés). From 2013 to 2021, he served as Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.