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Contributors
Mayra E. Beers is a doctoral candidate at Florida International University, where she was the recipient of an Andrew P. Mellon Fellowship from the Latin American and Caribbean Center from 1997 to 1999. She also received a James Scobie Award for Dissertation Research from the Conference on Latin American History, a Cuban Research Institute award for research in Cuba (funded by the Ford Foundation), and the Colonial Dames of America Scholarship in 1994.
Sherry Johnson is Associate Professor of History at Florida International University in Miami, and is Book Review Co-Editor for Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos. She is the author of The Social Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Cuba (2001), and her current project, Mercantilism Meets Mother Nature: El Niño's Atlantic World Repercussions in the Age of Revolution, is nearing completion.
Marisa S. Montes is pursuing her Master's degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with a concentration in international relations, at Florida International University. She is currently working at FIU's Cuban Research Institute as a teaching and research assistant.
Obá Oriaté Miguel W. Ramos, Ilarí Obá was ordained into the Lukumí priesthood as a young child, over thirty years ago, following in the steps of family members who have practiced the religion for at least five generations. Currently, he is an adjunct professor in sociology and anthropology at Florida International University and is one of the most respected Obá Oriaté in the United States. He has conducted research on Lukumí (Yoruba) religion and on this ethnic group's influence in the Americas for over thirty years. Recently, he curated an exhibition on Lukumí arts at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida (Miami) and installed a Lukumí altar for Shangó, his tutelary orisha, which is part of the AAltars of the World@ exhibition, a major German exposition currently touring in Europe.
Kirwin (Kirk) Shaffer is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at Penn State University-Berks/Lehigh Valley. He has taught courses in Cuban culture, Caribbean popular culture, Latin American film and literature, and Latin American history. His published work and current research center on examining anarchism in Cuba and the larger interactions between popular and political culture. His articles have appeared in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture and Cuban Studies. He has completed a manuscript on anarchist cultural politics and experiments in Cuba from 1898 to 1925 that is under editorial consideration. His next line of research will focus on Cuban and Puerto Rican labor radicals who moved between the islands and the United States from the 1890s to the 1930s. [End Page 287]
K. Lynn Stoner is associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She has published a monograph, From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Woman's Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940. She has made her research sources available to other scholars in the Stoner Collection, a microfilm collection of journals and papers of Cuban women's organizations during the Early Republic. In 2000, in conjunction with the Cuban History Institute in Havana, she coedited, with Luis H. Serrano, Cuban and Cuban American Women: An Annotated Interdisciplinary Bibliography.
Tiffany Thomas-Woodard is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of New Mexico. She has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays fellowship to complete her dissertation, titled "Between Bomba and Zanja: Prostitution, Race, and National Identity in Cuba, 1880-1930." [End Page 288]
