Susan M. Socolow, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor Emeritus of Latin American History, (B.A., Barnard College, 1962; M.A., Columbia University, 1964; Ph.D., 1973); Latin American social history and quantitative techniques. Author of The Merchants of Viceregal Buenos Aires: Family and Commerce; The Bureaucrats of Buenos Aires, 1769-1810: Amor Al Real Servicio; The Women of Colonial Latin America (2002); coeditor, Cities and Society in Colonial Latin America; coeditor, The Countryside in Colonial Latin America; editor, The Atlantic Staple Trade.