Contributors
- Contributors
Sarah C. Chambers is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854 (1999) and articles on legal history during the transition from the colonial to republican period in Peru. Her current research focuses on gender relations and ideologies in Spanish South America around the time of independence.
Jeffrey D. Needell is an associate professor at the University of Florida, where he has taught Brazilian history since 1987. He is the author of A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987) and has published several articles on Brazilian and Argentine urban and cultural history as well as Brazilian conservative political and social thought. The article in this issue introduces research he is just completing for a book on the state, society, and slavery in the political history of Brazil from 1831 to 1871.
Judy Bieber is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State-Building on a Brazilian frontier, 1882–1889 (1999) and editor of Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion (1997). Her areas of research specialization include the dynamics of frontier societies, Brazilian imperial politics, comparative slavery and race relations in the Americas. She is currently working on a project concerning nineteenth-century indigenous policy on the Minas Gerais–Espírito Santo frontier.
