Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Talia Bugel is assistant professor of Spanish at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. She is a linguist with interests in the fields of sociolinguistics—specifically, the study of language attitudes, language contact (Spanish and Portuguese), language policy and planning, and critical discourse analysis—and critical applied linguistics, the training of language teachers with sociocultural and political awareness. Her work has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, such as Trabalhos em Lingüística Aplicada, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, Language Policy, and Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana (forthcoming).
Maria del Carmen Caba Pérez es doctora del área economía financiera y contabilidad por la Universidad de Granada y profesor titular de universidad en la Universidad de Almería. Actualmente imparte docencia de contabilidad pública y contabilidad financiera, centrando sus investigaciones en el ámbito de la transparencia informativa. Ha publicado múltiples artículos tanto en revistas nacionales (Papeles de Economía, Revista de Contabilidad, Presupuesto y Gasto Público) como internacionales indexadas en el Journal Citation Reports (International Review of Administrative Sciences, American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration and Development, Journal of Management Research and Practice, Online Information Review, Innovar Journal, Government Information Quarterly, International Journal of Public Sector Management). Asimismo, ha participado en libros evaluados por el Book Citation Index, tales como Citizens and E-Government: Evaluating Policy and Management, Electronic Governance and Cross Boundary Collaboration y Comparative E-Government.
Germán Campos-Muñoz is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching interests include mythology and mythography, classical philology and textual criticism, founding narratives of the Americas, and Latin American cinema. He is currently completing a dissertation on the presence of the classical tradition in Latin American literatures.
Rachel Corr is associate professor of anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Ecuador since 1990 and was awarded Fulbright IIE and Fulbright-Hays grants to conduct research in highland Ecuador. She has published articles in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and contributed a chapter to Millennial Ecuador: Critical Essays on Cultural Transformations and Social Dynamics, edited by Norman E. Whitten Jr. Her book Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes (2010) focuses on collective memory and ritual in the indigenous parish of Salasaca. Her current research focuses on race, ethnicity, and cultural change in colonial Ambato. This marks her first publication in the field of ethnohistory.
Christine Rufino Dabat teaches and researches at the Federal University of Pernambuco on the history of sugar production, with an emphasis on labor relationships. Her book Moradores de Engenho, a study of rural workers in Pernambuco's [End Page 207] sugarcane region, will soon appear in a second edition. Her translations of a group of Sidney Mintz's essays were published as O poder amargo do açúcar. She recently edited issues of the journals Clio and Cadernos de História.
Maria del Mar Gálvez Rodríguez es licenciada en ciencias económicas y empresariales por la Universidad de Almería y diploma de estudios avanzados (DEA) en la Universidad de Almería. Actualmente es becaria de investigación en la Universidad de Almería. Su trabajo se centra en su tesis doctoral que versa sobre la transparencia informativa y la rendición de cuentas de las organizaciones no-gubernamentales. Entre sus publicaciones están "Determining Factors in Online Transparency of NGOs: A Spanish Case Study", publicado en VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, y "Responsabilidad social y transparencia on-line de las ONG: Análisis del caso español", publicado en la revista CIRIEC-España: Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa. Asimismo, ha presentado trabajos en congresos como "NGOs' Accountability Mechanisms: What Is the Way Forward for European NGOs?" en el 28o Congreso Internacional del International Center of Research and Information on the Public, Social, and Cooperative Economy celebrado en Berlín.
Erika D. Grajeda is currently pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds a master of arts in Latin American studies (from UT-Austin) and a bachelor...
