Contributors
- Contributors
Sherwin K. Bryant is Assistant Professor African American Studies and History at Northwestern University. He is the author of “Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito,” Colonial Latin American Review 13:1 (June 2004), pp. 7-46, and co-editor of Expanding the Diaspora: The African Diaspora to Colonial Latin America (in progress). Currently, he is working on a book manuscript that looks comprehensively at slavery and the realities of slave life in Colonial Ecuador and Popayán (Colombia).
Leo J. Garofalo received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin and is an Assistant Professor of History at Connecticut College. He just completed a book manuscript titled Making the Markers of Race in Colonial Peru: Taverns, Witches, and Marketplaces. He is currently a Fulbright scholar in Peru researching black sailors of the early Spanish Main and other Afro-Iberians in Africa, Iberia, and the Americas, and teaching a graduate course at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Charles Beatty Medina is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toledo. He completed his dissertation at Brown University under the direction of Douglas Cope in 2002 and specializes in colonial Ecuador and the African Diaspora in Latin America. Currently, he is revising his dissertation on the Esmeraldas maroons for publication.
Rachel Sarah O’Toole is an Assistant Professor of Colonial Peru and Atlantic World History at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include “Danger in the Convent: Colonial Demons, Idolatrous Indias, and Bewitching Negras in Santa Clara (Trujillo del Perú),” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7:1 (Spring 2006) and “Castas y representación en Trujillo colonial,” in Más allá de la dominación y la resistencia: Estudios de historia peruana, siglos XVI–XX, Paulo Drinot and Leo Garofalo, editors (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005).
Ben Vinson III is Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty, The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico (2001), Flight: The Story of Virgil Richardson, A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico (2004), and co-author of Afroméxico (2004). His current research is on the colonial Mexican caste system. [End Page v]
