Contributors
- Contributors
Jan Hoffman French is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Richmond. Her publications include “Buried Alive: Imagining Africa in the Brazilian Northeast,” American Ethnologist 33:3 (August 2006), pp. 340-60; “Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: ‘After the Conflict Came the History,’” American Anthropologist 106:4 (December 2004), pp. 663-74; and “Dancing for Land: Law-Making and Cultural Performance in Northeastern Brazil,” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 25:1 (2002), pp.19-36. She is currently working on a book manuscript that considers the relationship between law and ethnoracial identity in the Brazilian Northeast.
Willie Hiatt is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California, Davis. His dissertation research examines how Peruvians viewed their participation in world history through the pursuit of aviation. In 2006 he studied at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar. He completed a master’s thesis at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University in 2003.
James Krippner is Associate Professor of History at Haverford College. He is the author of Rereading the Conquest: Power, Politics and the History of Early Colonial Michoacán (2001) and several articles and reviews on Mexican and Latin American history. His current research investigates visual representations of Mexico and “Mexicanidad” created during the 1920s and 1930s following the Mexican Revolution, with an emphasis on the work of the North American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand. He earned his Ph.D. in 1993 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Pablo Lacoste holds a doctorate in history from the University of Buenos Aires and a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Santiago (Chile); he is a professor at the University of Talca (Chile). In recent years he has focused on research and writing on the history of wine production in the Southern Cone, with particular attention to its social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions. His articles on these themes have been published or will shortly appear in such publications as the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Latin American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Revista de Indias (Spain), Estudios Iberoamericanos (Brazil), and Historia y Universum (Chile). [End Page vi]
