Contributors
- Contributors
Rebecca Earle teaches in the History Department of the University of Warwick, in England. Her current research explores the cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish America; recent articles have examined the links between clothing and identity, the role of print in the wars of independence, and nineteenth-century civic festivals. She has just completed a monograph on nineteenth-century nationalism’s engagement with the preconquest past.
Matthew D. Esposito is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He received a Ph.D. at Texas Christian University, where he worked with William H. Beezley. He has just completed his book-length manuscript entitled “Constructing Landscapes and Mindscapes of Memory: Funerals, Festivals, and Cultural Politics in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911.”
Stafford Poole, C.M., is a Catholic priest and a member of the Vincentian Community (Congregation of the Mission of Saint Vincent de Paul). Now retired, he spent most of his priestly life teaching in Catholic seminaries in various parts of the country. From 1980 to 1984 he was president and rector of Saint John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, California. His specialty is the Catholic Church in colonial Mexico, and in recent years he has worked in Nahuatl (Aztec) studies. His latest book is Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. This article is based on his book The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico, forthcoming from Stanford University Press.
Susan Elizabeth Ramirez is the Penrose Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Her specialization in colonial Spanish American history and, most recently, in anthropological history, is evidenced in numerous articles and her three authored books: Provincial Patriarchs: Land Tenure and the Economics of Power in Colonial Peru (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986); The World Upside Down: Cross-Cultural Contact and Conflict in Sixteenth Century Peru (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996); and To Feed and Be Fed: The Cosmological Bases of Authority and Identity in Peru (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). Current research interests include the construction of the native king lists, the origins of a public school system for native boys and girls, and folk beliefs and practices. [End Page v]
