Contributors
- Contributors
José O. Solá (j.sola@csuohio.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Caribbean and Modern Latin American History at Cleveland State. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2004. His research focuses on exploring the role the colonos cañeros played in shaping the sugar industry and the political landscape in Puerto Rico during the period of 1900 to 1930. In order to explore these processes, his research focuses on the municipality of Caguas to explore colono political and economic power. His new research explores the imperial expansion of the United States in the Caribbean by focusing on the creation of centrales as discursive spaces where colonial/imperial identities are formulated.
Leon C. Wilson (wilsonl@ecu.edu) is the Chairman of the Sociology Department at the East Carolina University, and has completed multiple surveys and written several articles on families and family life in Guyana. His main research interest is to apply quantitative models to understand the relationship of structural features of families to a variety of social psychological, health and mental health outcomes in both the U.S. and Caribbean contexts.
Colwick M. Wilson (cwilson@llu.edu) is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Family Sciences at Loma Linda University, California, United States of America. His research interest is primarily focused on social factors of health and he teaches classes in research methods and medical sociology.
Bridgette M. Johnson (bjohnson@madonna.edu) is a doctoral student at Wayne State University and an instructor at Madonna University, Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on the family and deviance.
David M. Stark (starkd@gvsu.edu) is Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His research interests include family history, slave demography, and the clergy in colonial Latin America. His articles have appeared in Journal of Family History, Caribbean Studies, The Americas, Journal of Caribbean History, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Slavery & Abolition, and Colonial Latin American Review.
Karin Weyland Usanna (kweyland@gmail.com) earned her Ph.D. from the New School of Social Research, New York and is currently a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Social Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Her research and teaching interests center on migration and [End Page 231] gender, transnationalism and globalization, ethnography and qualitative methods, and participative action-investigation in afro-descendants communities. She has published articles in Estudios Sociales, Ciencia y Sociedad (Dominican Republic), Revista de Ciencias Sociales (Puerto Rico) and Hopscotch: A Cultural Review (Duke University). Weyland’s awards include a Fulbright grant for her research on Dominican women and transnational migration.
Marlon A. Bristol (marlonbristol@yahoo.com) graduated from the University of York, Heslington Campus, where he earned his master’s degree in Economics. He was recipient of two research grants from the University of Guyana Social Statistics Strenghtening Project to conduct a survey of potential emigrants and a survey on the use of tobacco by individuals with tertiary level education in Guyana. His publications include “VAT: Is it Suitable for the Caribbean Community?” (with Amos Peters) in Journal of Social and Economic Studies 55 (3), “The Value Added Tax: Who Wins and Who Loses?” in Guyana Review 14 (102) and “The State of Market Institutions in Guyana, in Report on Democratic Governance and Institutional Assesment of Guyana” (with Max Bradford, Joe Stern, Andrew Wyatt, and Kathy Mansfield) for IABD. At the time of writing the paper “Brain Drain and Return Migration in CARICOM: A Review of the Challenges”, Bristol was a researcher with the Institute of Development Studies and lectured in the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Guyana.
Anne-Marie Lee-Loy (aleeloy@ryerson.ca) is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Dr. Lee-Loy has a particular interest in the experiences of Chinese Caribbeans. Her articles on this subject have appeared in journals such as Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, and The Arts Journal. Her book, Reading Mr. Chin: Images of the Chinese in the West Indies was published in 2006. [End Page 232]
