Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Sandra Aguiar received her M.A. in ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on foreign direct investment in Brazil and she has published a book on that subject. Professionally, she is an accountant and economist. Currently, she is the head of the financial department of Indaqua, S.A.
Luís Aguiar-Conraria received his doctorate in economics from Cornell University in 2005. He is a researcher at NIPE (Economic Policies Research Unit) of the University of Minho, Portugal. His research is devoted to three different topics: business cycles, political economy, and time series analysis. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Public Choice; and Electoral Studies, among others.
Robert Andolina is associate professor of international studies at Seattle University. He is coauthor of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism (2009). He has also published in Political Geography, Journal of Latin American Studies, Antipode, and Signs. His research focuses on development, ethnicity, and indigenous movements in Ecuador and Bolivia.
Maria José Aparicio Meza es docente investigadora en la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, en la carrera de ingeniería en ecología humana. Es profesora adjunta de gestión ambiental y metodología de la investigación, e imparte materias en el ámbito social y ambiental. Está realizando su tesis doctoral en sociología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid sobre ecología humana y desarrollo rural en Paraguay, con un enfoque de territorio.
Clotilde Benítez is currently the director of the Carrera de Ecología Humana program at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. Her research interests include family and youth rural-to-urban migration, international migration by families, rural youth and their families, and food security in rural areas.
Estela Fatima Candia Romero es ingeniero agrónomo, con un título de M.A. en sociología rural de la Universidad de Guelph, Canada. Actualmente es profesora titular de las asignaturas de Introducción a la Sociología y Diagnóstico de Comunidades en la carrera de ecología humana de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay. Las áreas de interés de investigación comprenden estudios de la mujer y su rol en las familias, las organizaciones rurales como base del desarrollo comunitario.
Christopher Darnton is an assistant professor of politics at the Catholic University of America. He received his Ph.D. in politics in 2009 from Princeton University. His research concerns conflict resolution, the domestic politics of foreign policy making, and Latin American international relations. His work has appeared in Security Studies, and he is completing a book manuscript on rivalry and rapprochement in Cold War Latin America.
Álvaro Fernández Bravo is director of New York University, Buenos Aires, and researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad [End Page 235] de San Andrés, Argentina. He received his licenciatura en letras at Universidad de Buenos Aires and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has taught in several Argentine and American universities and has published several books and articles on Latin American literature, cultural patrimonies, intellectual networks, and critical theory. He is the author of Literatura y frontera (1999); editor of La invención de la nación (2000); and coeditor of Sujetos en tránsito (2003), El valor de la cultura (2007), and Episodios en la formación de las redes culturales en América Latina (2010).
Elizabeth Finnis earned her Ph.D. at McMaster University in 2006 and is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph. Her research interests include rural agricultural livelihoods, agricultural decision making, and dietary and agricultural transitions in smallholder farming households in Paraguay and India. Her research has been published in journals including American Anthropologist; Agriculture and Human Values; Food, Culture, and Society; and Anthropologica.
Robert Gay is professor and chair of sociology at Connecticut College. He is the author of Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas (1994), and Lucia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug...
