Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
William G. Acree Jr. is assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. His present research centers on print and popular cultures in nineteenth-century Latin America, especially in the Río de la Plata region. He is coeditor with Juan Carlos González-Espitia of Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming) and coeditor with Alex Borucki of Jacinto Ventura de Molina y los caminos de la escritura negra en el Río de la Plata (Linardi y Risso, 2008). Acree is currently completing a book that studies the development of print culture and its links to collective identity in Uruguay and Argentina from 1780 to 1910.
Claudio A. Agostini is assistant professor at Ilades-Universidad Alberto Hurtado and professorial lecturer at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research on taxation and capitalization of public infrastructure has been published in Public Finance Review, Fiscal Studies, El Trimestre Económico, and Cuadernos de Economía. His work analyzing competition and market power in specific industries has been published in the Review of Industrial Organization and Revista de Análisis Económico. Currently, his research focuses on applying statistical methodologies to combine survey and census data to analyze local poverty and local inequality in Chile.
Natália Salgado Bueno is a master's student at the University of São Paulo and a research assistant at the Brazilian Center for Planning and Analysis (CEBRAP). Her master's thesis is on race and political behavior in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Cape Town, South Africa, funded by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). Her research areas include political behavior, methodology, race and ethnicity, and public policy analysis.
Luis Hernán Errázuriz holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, Institute of Education. He is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Aesthetics, Catholic University of Chile. He teaches in the areas of art, culture and society, and aesthetic education. His publications in Chile and abroad include Historia de un área marginal: Educación artística en Chile (1797–1993), Rationales for Art Education in Chilean Schools (1998), Cómo evaluar el arte (2002), and Sensibilidad estética (2006). He has been invited to lecture at numerous international congresses and universities.
Fabrício Mendes Fialho holds an M.A. in political science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He is an affiliated researcher at the Research Group in Political Behavior and Public Opinion and at the Center for Quantitative Research in Social Sciences, both at UFMG. His interest areas include political behavior, methodology, race and ethnicity, and political psychology. His current research focuses on race and gender [End Page 247] effects on political participation in Brazil, and on social cognition and electoral choice.
Evelyn Hu-Dehart is professor of history and ethnic studies and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She recently coedited (with Kathleen López) a special issue of Afro-Hispanic Review (vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2008) on Afro-Asia.
Ileana Raquel Jalile is an assistant professor and junior researcher in the Department of Economics at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Her research interests include public finance, international trade, and economic integration. She is currently working on two projects: "Free Trade Agreements and the Transmission of Shocks across Countries" and "Regional Integration and Commercial Opportunities for Córdoba, Argentina" with financial support from the Agencia Córdoba Ciencia, Government of Córdoba. Recently, she worked at the Office of the Chief Economist, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, on projects related to Latin American and Caribbean economies.
Lisa Kowalchuk is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Guelph. Her research on Salvadoran social movements has focused on agrarian-based struggles to defend and extend land reform, as well as anti-globalization struggle focused on the health-care sector. Her work has been published in journals such as Sociological Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Sociology, and European Review of Latin American and...
