Curry-Machado, Jonathan: - Jonathan Curry-Machado is founding editor and coordinator, and audio-visual director, of the Commodities of Empire British Academy Research Project; founder member of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative; and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London), and the Institute of the Americas (University College London). He lived for several years in Cuba, where he was involved in historical research, art curation, and community culture.