Contributors / Contributors / Collaborateurs
- Contributors / Contributors / Collaborateurs
César Salcedo Chirinos <cesalchi@gmail.com> es egresado del Programa Doctoral de Historia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. Es profesor a tiempo parcial en la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, en la Universidad Metropolitana y en la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. Sus temas de investigación giran en torno a la transgresión y la vida cotidiana, las prácticas sexuales y la representación de las enfermedades en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX. Entre sus publicaciones se cuentan “Estragos tropicales de la lujuria: Las transgresiones venéreas del clero de Puerto Rico, 1798-1854” (Op.Cit., Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Núm. 18); “Contra el cólera, plegarias. Creencias, comportamientos y epidemias en Puerto Rico, 1855” (Op.Cit. Núm. 19) y “Entre el delito y el pecado: La representación de la sodomía en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX” (Identidades, Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de las Mujeres y el Género, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Cayey, Núm. 7).
Elisabeth Cunin <elisabeth.cunin@ird.fr> has a doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Toulouse Le Mirail and is a researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD-France), Unité de Recherche Migrations et Societé (URMIS) and the University of Nice. She worked as a guest researcher at Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) and the University of Quintana Roo. Her research deals with social construction of ethnic and racial categories among Afrodescendant populations in Colombia, Mexico and Belize. She coordinated the AN-AIRD AFRODESC project, “Afrodescendants and slavery: domination, identification and inheritance in the Americas (15th-21st centuries),” and participated in the European EURESCL project, “Slave Trade, Slavery, Abolitions and their Legacies in European Histories and Identities.” Her most recent publications include the edition of Textos en diáspora. Una antología sobre afrodescendientes en las Américas (México, INAHCEMCA-IFEA-IRD, 2008) and Mestizaje, diferencia y nación. “Lo negro” en América Central y el Caribe (México, INAH-UNAM-CEMCA-IRD, colección Africanía, 2010).
Odile Hoffman <odile.hoffman@ird.fr> received her Ph.D. in Geography in Bordeaux and a degree in linguistics in Paris. In Mexico, she undertook research on rural, agrarian and political issues and later studied the political dynamics of identity in the Black population of Colombia. From 2006 to 2009, she was director of the Centre for Mexican and Central American Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs [End Page 319] of France (CEMCA). She continues her research on populations of Africa origin in Mexico and Central America within the framework of AFRODESC coordinated by E. Cunin and the European EURESCL project where she coordinates the working group on “Constructing Otherness: Circulation and Identity in Europe and the Americas.” She is the author of five books, co-author of five more and coordinator of another four, and has published over 70 articles and book chapters.
Sasha Turner Bryson <sasha.turner@quinnipiac.edu> completed a B.A. in History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. at Cambridge University. She is currently an assistant professor of History at Quinnipiac University, where she teaches courses on women, piracy, slavery and the slave trade, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World. She is primarily interested in social and cultural histories of the Caribbean, with an emphasis on women and children. Dr. Turner is currently working on a project on reproduction, motherhood and childbearing practices during slavery. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at Rutgers University and Washington University in St. Louis.
Solsiree del Moral <sdelmoral@amherst.edu>, an Associate Professor of American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College, holds a Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is a historian of Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and U.S. Empire. In 2013, Del Moral published a history of schools and U.S. Empire in Puerto Rico, titled Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto...
