Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Anthony Bebbington is professor of nature, society, and development in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, and an Economic and Social Research Council Professorial Research Fellow. His recent work addresses mining, hydrocarbons, and territorial development in the Andean region; social movements and poverty agendas in Peru and South Africa; and geographies of nongovernmental organization and action. His recent books include Minería, movimientos sociales y respuestas campesinas: Una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2007); Investigación y cambio social: Desafíos para las ONG en Centroamérica y México (Guatemala City: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2007). He is coeditor, with S. Hickey and D. Mitlin, of Can NGOs Make A Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives (London: Zed, 2008); and coauthor, with R. Abramovay and M.Chiriboga, of the special section “Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Development in Latin America” in World Development (2008).
Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens is associate professor of history at California State University, Northridge, where she is also affiliated with the Central American Studies Program. Her book Transforming Mission: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries in Peru, 1943–1986, is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press.
Isabel Bilhão es doctora en historia en la Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Es Profesor Adjunto del Departamento de Historia de la Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Publicó los libros Rivalidades e Solidariedades no Movimento Operário (Porto Alegre 1906–1911), por Editora Universitária da Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sol, e Identidade e trabalho: Uma história do operariado porto-alegrense (1898 a 1920), por la Editora de Universidade Estadual de Londrina.
Katherine E. Bliss is a senior fellow and deputy director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. She is also a senior fellow in the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. Before joining CSIS she was a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State, where she focused on health policy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Bliss is an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University; previous faculty appointments include Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. From 2000 to 2001 she was David E. Bell Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. She is the author or coeditor of books, journals, and articles on public health, gender issues, and reform politics in Latin America, including the 2007 volume of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, “Nuevas direcciones: Sexuality, Politics, and Reproductive Health in Mexico,” coedited with Héctor Carrillo and Matthew Gutmann; Gender, Sexuality and Power in Latin America since Independence (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), coedited with [End Page 251] William E. French; and Compromised Positions: Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City (Penn State Press, 2001).
Hillary Hiner is a professor of history at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation, which seeks to historicize gender violence in contemporary Chilean society, at the Universidad de Chile.
Jean E. Jackson is a professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.A. and Ph.D from Stanford University. Her 1983 book, The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Social Identity in Northwest Amazonia examined the Tukanoan cultural complex of the Vaupés region. She has published numerous articles on the Vaupés peoples and on Colombia’s indigenous movement. She is coeditor with Kay Warren of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America (2002). Jackson also conducted ethnographic research in a rehabilitation hospital in the United States, which resulted in several published essays and a book: “Camp Pain”: Talking with Chronic Pain Patients (2002).
June Nash is a distinguished professor emerita at the City University of New York, Graduate Center and City College. Her early fieldwork was in Chiapas, Mexico, where she worked with Mayas, publishing In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Mayan Community (1970, 1986), translated as Bajo la mirada de los antepasados (Mexico City, 1975Mexico City, 1993). Her work in tin-mining communities of Bolivia resulted...
