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Kristen Jancuk
Kristen is an editor specializing in Latin & South American History. She received her MA in Latin American and Hemispheric Studies from George Washington University, and a BA in Spanish and International Relations from Bucknell University. After receiving her MA, Kristen began working on international drug policy for the Organization of American States. One of her greatest and most impractical ambitions is to learn Quechua.
Education:George Washington UniversityMA Latin American & Hemispheric StudiesBucknell UniversityBA Spanish and International RelationsExpertise:Articles by Kristen Jancuk
The impressive structures left behind by the Inca reveal a civilization that excelled in both architecture and engineering.
Despite its reputation, coca is a versatile plant that has been cultivated in South America for millennia and used for everything from medicine to soft drinks.
Though she never held office, Eva Perón had an outsized role in shaping her husband’s political movement, Peronism, an ideology that outlasted the Peróns themselves.
The last true king of the Inca Empire, Huayna Capac, reigned over the 30-year period leading up to the conquest.
Was Eva Perón, Argentina’s most powerful first lady, truly a feminist, or was women’s empowerment simply propaganda to further her husband’s political agenda?
The CIA spent decades trying and failing to kill Fidel Castro through a series of increasingly unhinged schemes that belie its professional reputation.
Fifty years after the civil rights movement secured equal rights for Black Americans, the US elected its first Black president, Barack Obama.
Not only did medical practice in the Americas predate the conquest, but Indigenous healers were besting their European counterparts in everything from surgery to antibiotics.