Notes on the Contributors

Marcos Aguila is an economist and historian, and holds a position at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, unidad Xochimilco, in Mexico City. He received his PhD in History at the University of Texas at Austin, and has written articles on contemporary Mexican wages, wages in Mexico during the Great Depression and nineteenth-century Mexican liberalism.

Jorge Balán is Senior Program Officer for Education and Scholarship at the Ford Foundation in New York and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at New York University. Before joining Ford in 1998, he was senior researcher and ex-Director of the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad and Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. He has published extensively on issues of internal and international migration, urbanization and labor mobility, and the new professions. In recent years his research on the reform of higher education in the region has appeared in many journals and edited volumes, including Políticas de reforma de la educación superior y la universidad latinoamericana hacia el final del milenio, published by UNAM in 2000.

Marcelo S. Bergman is Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economica (CIDE) in Mexico City. His research focuses in two major lines: tax evasion and law abidance, and public security and criminality, both in Latin America. His latest works are two forthcoming books: Cheaters, Suckers and Legalists: On Tax Evasion in Latin America and Law and Trust in Latin America.

Jeffrey Bortz published his early wage studies (1985, 1986, 1988) in Mexico City, where he worked for a number of years. He currently teaches at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. His research on textile workers and the Mexican revolution has appeared in Labor History, the Journal of Latin American Studies, the International Review of Social History, the Americas, and other journals. He recently edited a volume with Stephen Haber on the Mexican economy (Stanford University Press, 2002).

Deborah Cohn is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her book, History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction, was published by Vanderbilt UP in 1999. She is also co-editor, with Jon Smith, of Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke University Press, 2004). She has published articles in CR: The New Centennial Review, Latin American Literary Review, Mexican Studies, and elsewhere. She currently holds an NEH grant for work on a project entitled "Creating the Boom's Reputation: The Promotion of the Boom in and by the U.S

Carlos de la Torre is director of political studies at FLACSO-Ecuador. He has published on Latin American populism and racism in Latin America. His latest books are Populist Seduction in Latin America (Ohio University Press, 2000) and Afroquiteños, ciudadanía y racismo (Quito: CAPP, 2002). With Steve Striffler he is editing The Ecuador Reader for Duke University Press.

Agustín E. Ferraro is Professor/Researcher at the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies of the University of Salamanca (Ramon y Cajal Program). From 2000 to 2002, he was an Alexander von Humboldt-Scholar at the Institute for Iberoamerican Studies in Hamburg and at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include civil service reform, legislatures, parliamentary controls of the bureaucracy and political theory.

Gloria González-López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, she received a PhD in sociology from the University of Southern California (2000). She conducts sexuality research with Mexican immigrants and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on gender, sexuality, and qualitative methods. She has published her academic work in anthologies and academic journals and her book Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and their Sex Lives was released in the summer 2005 (University of California Press). A psychotherapist by training, she has worked with Latin American immigrants as a clinician, teacher, and sex educator at different community-based agencies in Texas and California.

Guillermo B. Irizarry received his...