Notes on the Contributors

David Barkin is Professor of Economics at the Xochimilco campus of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He received his doctorate in economics from Yale University and was awarded the National Prize in Political Economics in 1979 for his analysis of Mexico's inflation. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and of the National Research Council. In 1974 he was a founding member of the Ecodevelopment Center. His most recent books include Wealth, Poverty and Sustainable Development (Cambridge, MA : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1995) and Innovaciones mexicanas en el manejo del agua.He is interested in the process of unequal development that creates profound imbalances throughout society and promotes environmental degradation. His recent research focuses on the implementation of alternative strategies for the sustainable management of resources. Much of his work is conducted in collaboration with local communities and regional citizens' groups.

Albert Berry is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Research Director of the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of Toronto's Center for International Studies. His main research interests focus on Latin American labor markets and income distribution (with attention to the impact of recent economic reforms), the economics of smaller enterprises, and agrarian structure and policy. His current research interests include the design of pro-poor growth policies and effective employment strategies. Recent edited publications include Labor Market Policies in Canada and Latin America: Challenges of the New Millennium (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000) and Poverty, Economic Reforms, and Income Distribution in Latin America (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).

Howard Campbell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author and editor of five volumes concerned with Mexico, including Mexican Memoir: A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca (Westport, CN: Bergin & Garvey, 2001). His current research focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border region and includes studies of Anglo-Mexican relations, Mexican-American consumer culture, the Piro-Manso-Tiwa Native American Tribe, and the politics of historical preservation at the Socorro Mission in Texas.

Gloria Delany-Barmann is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Western Illinois University. Her current research is focused on bilingual teacher training with indigenous populations in Guatemala and Bolivia.

Craig F. Emmert is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. His research interests are judicial politics, state politics, and international political economy. He has co-authored articles on Japanese foreign direct investment and Japanese aid policy in Latin America.

Jodi Finkel is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on judicial reform in Latin America, and she has published two articles on the judiciary in Mexico. Her current research examines the defensor del pueblo (human rights investigator) in the Andes. She received her doctorate in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2001.

Virginia Garrard-Burnett is Senior Lecturer at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of more than two dozen articles and book chapters on religion in Latin America and Central American history. Her recent publications include On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion and Society in Modern Latin America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2000) and Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998). In addition, forthcoming publications include "Charismatic Catholicism Meets Liberation Theology in El Salvador," Journal of Hispanic and Latino Theology (2004); "God Was Already Here: Mayan Inculturated Theology," scheduled to appear in Timothy Steigenga and Edward Cleary, eds., Spirituality and Culture (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004); and, "Mayan Theologies and De-Westernized Christianity," to appear in Kavita A. Pullapilly, Christianity and Native Cultures (South Bend, IN: Cross Cultural Publications, 2005).

Robert N. Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Development at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, England. In recent years, he has also been Visiting Professor at the...