Charles Walker is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. He has been director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas and the UC Davis global centers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Between 2015 and 2020 he held the MacArthur Foundation Chair in Human Rights. Some of his publications include
Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru (winner of the Prose Award and the Luces-
El Comercio Award);
Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath; Alberto Flores Galindo: Utopia, History and Revolution (with Carlos Aguirre); and
De Tupac Amaru a Gamarra: Cuzco y la formación del Perú republicano. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion won several awards and was named one of the best books of the year by the
Financial Times. Since 1979 he has lived in both Peru and the United States.