Casey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, as well as the Mexican journal ISTOR. She is currently writing a history of the coffee economy of the Soconusco, Chiapas that examines how peripheral places grappled with and took advantage of globalization during Latin America’s export boom.