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Latin American Research Review 40.2 (2005) 284-287



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Eduardo Alemán is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston in Texas. He holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's degree in Latin American Studies, both from the University of California, Los Angeles. His current research focuses on legislative institutions, political parties in Latin America, and constitutional political economy.
Amy Bellone Hite is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Xavier University of Louisiana and Visiting Scholar at Tulane University's Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She coedited From Modernization to Globalization (Blackwell, 2000) with J. Timmons Roberts, with whom she is collaborating for two other edited volumes: one on environmental sustainability in Latin America and another on globalization and development, emphasizing counter-hegemonic movements.
Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Canada Research Chair in International Health and Associate Professor of International Development Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the history of public health, women's health, and infant mortality in Mexico and Uruguay and on the politics of international health policy in Latin America. Her forthcoming book is entitled Marriage of Convenience: The Rockefeller Foundation, International Health, and Revolutionary Mexico (University of Rochester Press, 2005).
Taylor C. Boas is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines the transformation of political communication and campaigning in Latin America and will involve field research during the upcoming presidential elections in Chile, Peru, and Brazil. He has also done research on the role of the Internet in authoritarian regimes and is coauthor of Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003).
David William Foster is Regents Professor of Spanish, Women's Studies, and Interdisciplinary Humanities at Arizona State University. His research focuses on urban cultural production in Latin America, especially Argentina. He is the co-author, with Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez of Chicano Literature: An Anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló, and his monograph En el Ambiente Nuestro: Essays on Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Writing is forthcoming with the Bilingual Press.
Laura B. Frankel is a candidate for the MPhil in Development Studies at Wolfson College of the University of Oxford. Her research interests include the political economy of Cuban development both before and after the revolution. In 2002 she received her BA in Government from [End Page 284] Wesleyan University, where she was awarded the Davenport Prize for Excellence in Government.
W. John Green received his PhD in Latin American history from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at several institutions, including Virginia Tech and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Council of Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., a Colombia country specialist for Amnesty International USA, and a columnist for the online publication ColombiaWeek. His book Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia (University Press of Florida, 2003) was named a Choice magazine "Outstanding Academic Title." His current project is a history of political murder in modern Latin America.
Ryan Long is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 and contemporary Mexican narrative. He has recently edited a special issue of the South Central Review titled "Memory and Nation in Contemporary Mexico," and is currently writing a book on 1968 and the Mexican novel.
James W. Mcguire is Professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Peronism Without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina (Stanford, 1997) and of Politics, Policy, and Mortality Decline in East Asia and Latin America (under review).
Michael Monteón is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Chile in the Nitrate Era: The Evolution of Economic Dependence, 1880-1930(Wisconsin, 1982) and Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927-1948 (Tempe, Latin American Studies Center, 1998). He has published articles on Latin America related to its modern...

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