Contributors
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Christina Ayson
Christina Ayson is a PhD student at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, in American studies. She is interested in interrogating binary notions of art production and knowledge through museum pedagogies. She is researching how contemporary works of art by Filipino American artists produce decolonial gestures against the hegemonies of the museum complex in the neoliberal moment.
M. Bianet Castellanos
M. Bianet Castellanos teaches American studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of A Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and coeditor with Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera and Arturo Aldama of Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Toward a Hemispheric Approach (University of Arizona Press, 2012). She has spent more than two decades working with Maya communities in Mexico and more recently in Southern California.
Juan Castro
Juan Castro is a Maya Awakateko lawyer defending human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples. He is professor of law at the Universidad Maya Kaqchikel de Xenacoj, Guatemala. He is the defense lawyer of Ancestral Authorities criminalized for defending territories and serves as legal assistant to various Maya governing councils.
Elizabeth Alice Clement
Elizabeth Alice Clement’s first book is titled Love for Sale and won the Dixon Ryan Fox prize from the New York State Historical Society. She currently has two book projects: the first, We Are Family: Gays and Lesbians and the American Family, focuses on the relationship between gays and family in the United States; the second, part of a multidisciplinary effort to create a permanent archival collection on HIV/AIDS in Utah, is titled AIDS and the Silent Majority: Family, Religion, and Care in Conservative America. She has won numerous college and university awards for her teaching. When not in the classroom, she can be found biking, hiking, and bartering organic produce for upscale charcuterie at a locally prominent overpriced grocery in Salt Lake City. [End Page 987]
Cynthia G. Franklin
Cynthia G. Franklin is professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i and coeditor of Biography. She is the author of Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009) and Writing Women’s Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Georgia Press, 1997). Her essays and review articles appear in journals including American Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Life Writing, and The Contemporary Pacific. She has coedited three special issues of Biography, most recently, with Morgan Cooper and Ibrahim Aoude, “Life in Occupied Palestine” (2014). She is a member of the Organizing Collective for the US campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
Diane C. Fujino
Diane C. Fujino is professor of Asian American studies and director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of political biographies, including Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, and Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life. Her current research augments the long freedom movement studies by examining early Cold War Japanese American radicalism as well as the impact of the Black Panther Party after the organization’s demise.
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera is assistant professor of anthropology at Drake University. Her research has focused on the transnational lives of Zapotec indigenous migrants between Oaxaca and Los Angeles. More specifically, she is interested in broad questions regarding citizenship, belonging, and indigeneity. Her publications are featured in numerous academic journals and edited volumes including her coedited book, Comparative Indigeneities: Toward a Hemispheric Approach (University of Arizona Press, 2012).
Patrick Jones
Patrick Jones is a doctoral candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. His dissertation explores the history and deployment of electronic voting machines in India and the United States. His research interests include science and technology studies, digital politics, and political theory and philosophy. He holds an MA in international studies from the University of Oregon. [End Page 988]
Christopher A. Loperena
Christopher A. Loperena is a sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the International Studies...
