Lea Geler is a renowned scholar at CONICET/IIEGE (Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies) and of the Group of Afro-Latin American Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research foci are Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century, formation of nation-states, racial categories, gender categories, Othering. In addition to her extensive collection of articles on the problems of Afro-descendants, she is the author of Andares negros, caminos blancos: Afroporteños. Estado y Nación. Argentina a fines del siglo XIX.  (Black walks, white roads: Afroporteños. State and Nation. Argentina in the late nineteenth century). Lea Geler is the co-editor of Cartografías afrolatinoamericanas: Perspectivas situadas para análisis transfronterizos (Afro-Latin American Cartography: Situated Perspectives on Transborder Analysis), and Actas de las Segundas Jornadas de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos del GEALA (Proceedings of the Second Conference of Afro-Latin American Studies of GEALA).