Carmen Martinez Novo is Professor of Latin American Studies at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida and the Editor in Chief of Latin American Research Review. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (2021, University of Pittsburgh Press), Who Defines Indigenous? Identities, Development, Intellectuals and the State in Northern Mexico (2006, Rutgers) and the editor of Repensando los movimientos indígenas (Rethinking indigenous movements, 2009, FLACSO). She has co-edited journal issues and published numerous articles and book chapters on indigenous identities and politics in Mexico and Ecuador.
She was a 2017-18 Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies among other grants and scholarships. Before being the editor in chief of LARR she served as associate editor at Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and America Latina Hoy. Martinez Novo was a member of the Executive Council of LASA (2014-16) and the Chair of the Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples (2016-18) and the Ecuadorian Studies (2009-2011) sections of the same association.