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Latin American Research Review 39.2 (2004) 300-302



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Valeria Brusco is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the National University of Villa Maria, Córdoba, Argentina, and a CONICET (Consejo de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas) doctoral student. She is the director of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales (CEPYS). Her research interests include political clientelism, social capital, and women and politics.
Sarah Cline is Professor of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara and currently Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies, an interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate degree program. She has published extensively on early colonial Mexican history and now is pursuing a number of projects on late colonial and early nineteenth-century Mexico. In collaboration with Ida Altman and Javier Pescador, she published The Early History of Greater Mexico (Prentice Hall, 2003).
Javier Corrales is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the author of Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s (Penn State Press, 2002). His research on the politics of economic and second-generation reforms has been published in several book chapters and academic journals. He was one of the youngest scholars to be selected as a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., in 2000. He is currently working on a project on political responses to economic crises in Latin America.
Susan Deeds is Professor of History at Northern Arizona University. Her publications on missions and northern Mexican ethnohistory include "Legacies of Resistance, Adaptation, and Tenacity: History of the Native Peoples of Northwest Mexico," published in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2000); and Defiance and Deference in Colonial Mexico: Indians under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya (University of Texas Press, 2003). She is also co-author (Michael C. Meyer and William L. Sherman) of the textbook, The Course of Mexican History, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003).
Paulo Drinot is Junior Lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Oxford. He has published on Peruvian historiography, economic history, and labor history. He is working on two projects: a history of prostitution in Lima in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a history of state-society relations in Ayacucho, Peru, that focuses on primary education and military conscription in the first half of the twentieth century.
Damian J. Fernández is Professor of International Relations at Florida International University. He is the author of Cuba and the Politics of Passion (University of Texas, 2000) and the co-editor of Cuba, The Elusive Nation: Reinterpretations of National Identity (University Press of Florida, 2000). [End Page 300]
Roberto Gargarella is Professor of Constitutional Theory and Political Philosophy at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He holds a Doctor of Law degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a J.D. from the University of Chicago, and conducted his post-doctoral research at Balliol College, Oxford. In recent years he has held a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship (2002) and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2000).
Paul Gootenberg is Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Stony Brook University. He has written extensively on economic history, most recently on the history of the Andean commodity, cocaine.
Mauro F. Guillén is the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor of International Management and Professor of Sociology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. His research has to do with the impact of globalization and the spread of practices, innovations, and cultural artifacts around the world.
Hendrik Kraay is Associate Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001) and has edited Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s (M.E. Sharpe, 1998) and (with Thomas L. Whigham) Muero con Mi Patria...

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