Josthin Amado is a historian of twentieth-century labor and Latin American history, with a focus on race, class, and gender. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. With the support of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, Josthin is currently writing on the history of Guatemala’s Democratic Spring (1944-1954) and the role of the Guatemalan 1947 Labor Code.