Contributors
- Contributors
Scott Ickes is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Florida and director of its Brazilian Studies Certificate program. His focus is twentieth-century Brazil and cultural history of Latin America. He is the author of the article "'Adorned with the Mix of Faith and Profanity That Intoxicates the People': The Festival of the Senhor do Bonfim in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1930-1954" (2005), and has completed a book manuscript on African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil.
Carolyne Ryan Larson is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. Her current research examines connections between science, society, and identity in modern Argentina. She is currently working on a book manuscript exploring the role of scientific understandings of indigenous cultures in Argentina's national imaginary through a study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century museum anthropology.
Charles Walker is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, where he also directs the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas. His books include Shaky Colonialism: Lima and the 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami and its Long Aftermath (2008), Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840 (1999), and Diálogos con el Perú (2009). He is finishing a narrative history of the Tupac Amaru Rebellion, to be published by Harvard University Press.
Claudia Guarisco Canseco is a Research Professor at the Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C. in Zinacantepec, Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in History at the Colegio de México, and specializes in political popular culture in Latin America during the Bourbon monarchy, Independence, and the early Republican period. She is the author of two books, Los indios del valle de México y la construcción de una nueva sociabilidad política, 1770-1835 (2003), and La reconstitución del espacio político indígena. Lima y el valle de México durante la crisis de la Monarquía española (2011).
