Contributors
- Contributors
William H. Beezley established a reputation as a pioneer cultural historian of Mexico with the publication of Judas at the Jockey Club (1987). His numerous books include the Oxford History of Mexico (co-edited with Michael C. Meyer), The Human Tradition in Latin America (co-edited with Judy Ewell) and most recently, Mexican National Identity: Memory, Innuendo, and Popular Culture (2008) and Mexicans in Revolution, 1910–1946 (2009), with Colin MacLachlan. Lately, his research has turned to wine and he has appeared as a guest on the Emmy-award winning program “The Desert Speaks” to discuss wine in Baja California del Norte and Chile. His Mexican investigations now focus on a reassessment of José Vanconcelos as Minister of Education. He teaches at the University of Arizona and is a distinguished visiting professor at El Colegio de México, and he serves as co-director of the Oaxaca Summer Institute.
Yolanda Jurado Rojas holds a Ph.D. in history from Mexico’s Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and a master’s degree in Language and Literature from the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla. She has taught at Mexico’s Universidad la Salle and Universidad del Valle. A specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century puppet theater, recent publications include La Literatura, ideas y emociones hechas palabras (2010), Comprensión lectora (2009), and Teatro de titeres durante el porfiriato (2004). She has also written widely in the national media on art and culture.
Francisca Miranda Silva received a B.A. degree in Dramatic Arts from the National School of Theatrical Arts of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City. She studied pedagogy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also received a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies. As a theatrical investigator at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Teatral Rodolfo Usigli (CITRU), she has completed research projects on hand puppets in the Fine Arts and the Mexican National Puppet Company of the Rosete Aranda Brothers and Sisters and Carlos V. Espinal and Sons. She has written essays on theater and puppets, given lectures on the theater in Mexico, moderated theatrical events, been invited to advise and direct theater and puppet groups, and served as a judge in national theatrical contests. In 2008 she received the Rosete Aranda medal awarded by the National Museum of Puppetry.
Elena Jackson Albarrán received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and in the Latin American, [End Page v] Latino/a and Caribbean Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio. She is completing a manuscript on children’s civic, social, and cultural contributions to the revolutionary Mexican experience.
Steve Lewis teaches Latin American history at California State University, Chico. He is the author of The Ambivalent Revolution: Forging State and Nation in Chipas, 1910–1945 (2005) and co-edited, with Mary Kay Vaughan, The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940 (2006). He recently published a co-edited volume with Margarita Sosa Suárez entitled Monopolio de aguardiente y alcoholism en Chipas: Un enstudio‘incómodo’ de Julio de la Fuente (2009). [End Page vi]
