Nicola Foote is Dean of the David C. Frederick Honors College, Bernice L. and Morton S. Lerner Chair in Honors Education, and Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Nicola Foote is a scholar with research interests in race and state formation in Ecuador, Caribbean migration to South America, histories of reproductive health care access in Florida and human-animal relations in the Galapagos Islands. She holds a PhD in history from University College London, a master’s degree from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London and a bachelor’s degree in history of the Americas, also from University College London.