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about the Contributors CARLOS MARTÍNEZ ASSAD is on the faculty of the Social and Political Sciences Department, Universidad NacionalAutónoma de México. He received his PhD in political sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , University of Paris, France. He was director of the journal Eslabones and completed “Tabasco, el experimento social: Un DVD relata la reducción nacionalista y el anticlericalismo que vivió en el estado con Garrido Canabal” in 2004. He also edited Religiosidad y politica en Mexico (Mexico City: Cuadernos de Cultura y Religion, 1992) and Estadistas, caciques y caudillos (Mexico City: UNAM, 1988), as well as Balance y perspectivas de los estudios regionales en Mexico (Mexico City: UNAM, 1990). FRANCISCO E. BALDERRAMA is professor of Chicano studies and history at California State University–Los Angeles, where he was selected as Outstanding University Professor in 1997. Previously, he served as chair of Chicano studies. He has also held faculty and administrative appointments at Texas Tech University, Adams State College, and the Claremont Colleges. He is a noted Chicano historian with special interest in the American West, particularly California and Los Angeles. He received his doctorate from the University of California–Los Angeles. Most recently, Professor Balderrama is the coauthor of Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006) and Mexican-American Baseball in Los Angeles (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2011). THOMAS BENJAMIN is professor of history, Central Michigan University. He received his PhD from Michigan State University. His research focuses on Mexico and the Atlantic world. Recent publications by Professor Benjamin include The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History , 1400–1900 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009). He is also the editor in chief of the three-volume work Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450 (New York: Macmillan, 2007). JÜRGEN BUCHENAU is professor of history and Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He obtained his PhD from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. His areas of interest are nineteenth - and twentieth-century Mexico, its cultural, economic, and political 242 • about the contributors aspects, immigration, Mexico in world affairs, and the Mexican Revolution. He is the coeditor of two books, Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009), and State Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1952: Portraits in Conflict, Courage, and Corruption (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). He is also the author of Mexican Mosaic: A Brief History of Mexico (Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2008). DON M. COERVER is an associate dean and professor in the Department of History and Geography at Texas Christian University. He received his PhD in Latin American history from Tulane University. His areas of specialization include Modern Mexico, US–Latin American relations, militarism/foreign intervention in Latin America, and US business history (especially federal regulation and consumer fraud). His latest books are Tangled Destinies: Latin America and the United States (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999), and Mexico (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004). MIGUEL ÁNGEL GONZÁLEZ-QUIROGA is a former state representative from the state of Nuevo León, México, and a former professor of history at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. He received his MA in Latin American history from the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico. He has coauthored two books and coedited two others on the border region. One of his latest efforts has been as coeditor, with Timothy Bowman, of Melinda Rankin’s Twenty Years among the Mexicans: A Narrative of Missionary Labor (Dallas: Library of Texas, 2008). LINDA B. HALL is professor of Latin American history at the University of New Mexico, where she has also served as director of Latin American studies. She received her PhD in Latin American history from Columbia University. Her published work has focused principally on the Mexican Revolution and the US-Mexican border. Her scholarly interests also extend beyond Mexico, encompassing both US–Latin American relations and regional studies more broadly. Professor Hall is the author of Mary, Mother and Warrior: The Virgin Mary in Spain and the Americas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004). She is currently working on a biography of Dolores Del Rio titled Dolores Del Rio: Icon of Beauty in Two Cultures. JOHN MASON HART is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston and one of the nation’s foremost scholars on Mexican history...