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Contributors
Caroline A. Williams teaches Latin American history at the University of Bristol, England. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Warwick in 1991, and from 1992 to 1995 held a fellowship at University College London. Her teaching and research interests are in pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American history. Her current research is on frontier colonization in Spanish America, and she is presently writing a book on the colonization of the Chocó between the early seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries.
Guillaume Boccara received his doctorate in social anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where he studied with Nathan Wachtel. His research on sociocultural, political, and economic change among the Reche/Mapuche of colonial Chile has been published in several journals (including L’Homme: Revue Française d’Anthropologie, Revista de Indias, Anuario de Estudios Americanos y Memoria Americana) and Guerre et ethnogenèse mapuche dans le Chili Colonial, a book based on his doctoral dissertation, has recently been published by L’Harmattan (Paris, 1998). As a researcher with the Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains (EHESS/CNRS) and the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco, Chile, he is currently working on Mapuche shamanism and representations of the environment.
Michael T. Ducey received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is currently an assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado at Denver. Among his recent publications are “Liberal Theory and Peasant Practice: Land and Power in Northern Veracruz, Mexico, 1826–1900,” in Liberals, the Church, and Indian Peasants: Corporate Lands and the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America, ed. Robert H. Jackson (Albuquerque, 1997); and “Viven sin ley ni rey: rebeliones coloniales en Papantla, 1760–1790,” in Procesos rurales e historia regional (sierra y costa totonacas de Veracruz), ed. Victoria Chenaut (Mexico City, 1997). He is currently working on a history of rural social and political movements in Veracruz, Mexico, from 1750 to 1870.
Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago is associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. A native of Puerto Rico, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992. His book, An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823–1918, was recently published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is now working on agrarian politics and society in El Salvador between 1920 and 1960 and on coffee production and peasants in nineteenth-century Mexico.
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