Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
- Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
A. Lynn Bolles (lbolles@umd.edu) is professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland. She is the author of We Paid Our Dues: Women Trade Union Leaders in the Caribbean (1996) and Sister Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work and Households in Kingston (1996), and the co-author of In the Shadows of the Sun: Caribbean Development Alternatives and U.S. Policy (1990), and My Mother Who Fathered Me and Others: Gender and Kinship the English-Speaking Caribbean (1988). An active member of numerous professional organizations, she has served as the President of the Association of Black Anthropologists (1983-84), the Caribbean Studies Association (1997-98), the largest and oldest scholarly organization focusing on the region, the Association for Feminist Anthropology (2001-03), and the Society for the Anthropology of North America (2009-2011).
Kevin A. Yelvington (yelvingt@usf.edu) teaches anthropology at the University of South Florida. His research interests include ethnic, gender, and class relations, development studies, Marxist anthropology and feminist anthropology, and the history of anthropology, especially with respect to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is author of Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace (1995), the editor of Trinidad Ethnicity (1993) and Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora (2006), and co-editor of The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History (1999).
Jorge Duany (jduany@gmail.com) is Professor of Anthropology at the University at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He previously served as Director of UPR's Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales. He has also held visiting teaching and research appointment at several U.S. universities, including Harvard, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. He has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in the Caribbean and the United States. He belongs to the editorial boards of several academic journals, including Caribbean Studies, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Cuban Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Latino Studies, and New West Indian Guide. His latest books are Blurred Borders: Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States (2011) and La nación en vaivén: Identidad, migración y cultura popular en Puerto Rico (2010). He recently coedited a volume on Puerto Rican Florida (2010) and How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences (2009). [End Page 253]
Alice E. Colón Warren (colonal@coqui.net) is Associate Researcher in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She has published a number of works on gender issues, including Puerto Rican women's employment, feminism, and reproductive rights. Her publications include the co-edited book Mujeres en el Caribe: Desarrollo, paz y movimientos comunitarios (1995), the special issue of Caribbean Studies journal entitled "Feminist Research and Action in the Caribbean" Vol. 28, No. 1 (1995) and Estirando el peso: Acciones de ajuste y relaciones de género ante el cierre de fábricas en Puerto Rico (2008). She has also published the following articles: "Incremento en las mujeres jefas de familia y feminización de la pobreza en Puerto Rico" (2006), "Mujeres, familias y trabajos en Puerto Rico: discusiones en la investigación social" (2003), "Puerto Rico: Feminism and Feminist Studies" (2003), "Asuntos de género en la discusión pública a través del siglo veinte en Puerto Rico" (2002), and "The Feminization of Poverty among Women in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican Women in the Middle Atlantic Region of the United States" (1998).
Florence E. Babb (fbabb@ufl.edu) is the Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies in the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida, where she is also Affiliate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies. She is the author of Between Field and Cooking Pot: The Political Economy of Marketwomen in Peru (1989, second edition 1998) and After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua (2001), both with University of Texas Press. Her latest book, The Tourism Encounter: Fashioning Latin American Nations and...
