Contributors
- Contributors
Eric Zolov is associate professor at Stony Brook University and senior editor of The Americas. He is the author of Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (1999) and co-editor of Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Popular Culture in Mexico Since 1940 (2001), Rockin’ Las Américas: The Global Politics of Rock in Latin/o America (2004), and Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History (2000; 2010). He is working on a book manuscript titled “The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties” (Duke University Press).
Vania Markarian has taught at Queens College-CUNY, Princeton University, and Columbia University. She is associate professor of Historical Research in the Archives of the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. Her publications on recent Latin American history include Left in Transformation: Uruguayan Exiles and the Latin American Human Rights Networks, 1967–1984 (2005) and El 68 uruguayo: el movimiento estudiantil entre molotovs y música beat (2012).
Valeria Manzano is associate professor of History at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales (Universidad de San Martín) and associate researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla, as well numerous articles on youth, politics, and sexuality in Argentina. As a fellow of the Drugs, Security, and Democracy Program of the Social Science Research Council (New York City), she is currently working on a book manuscript on the cultural and political history of drugs in twentieth-century Argentina.
Christopher Dunn is associate professor at Tulane University, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program. He is the author of Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture (2001) and co-editor of two volumes of essays on Brazilian popular music. In 2013–14, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete a book about the Brazilian counterculture of the 1970s while in residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a fellow of the Brazil Initiative.
Joaquín M. Chávez is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on revolution, Catholic [End Page vii] social thought, and the Cold War in Latin America, with an emphasis on the history of El Salvador’s Civil War. He has published studies on El Salvador’s peace process and served as an expert in peace negotiations in Nepal.
Jaime M. Pensado is Carl E. Koch Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, where he also serves as director of the Mexico Working Group and fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Institute for Latino Studies (ILS). He specializes in contemporary Mexican history, student movements, youth culture, and the Cold War. His current book project examines Catholic youth and the rise of a divergent conservative movement in Cold War Mexico. His first book, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture During the Long Sixties, was published in 2013.
Aldo Marchesi received his Ph.D. from New York University in 2012 and teaches history at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay). He has published widely on the history of Uruguay and the Southern Cone, including most recently “La partida decisiva de la revolución en América Latina: militantes bolivianos, chilenos y uruguayos en la Argentina peronista, Buenos Aires, 1973–1976” (2012) and “Tupamaros et dictature, radicalisation et autoritarisme: débats sur le coup d’état de 1973 en Uruguay” (2010). He is working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation, “Geographies of Armed Protest: Transnational Cold War, Latin American Internationalism and the New Left in the Southern Cone (1966–1976).” [End Page viii]
