Contributors
- Contributors
Aaron P. Althouse is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Currently he is researching comparative processes of urban and rural identity formation in colonial Michoacán, Mexico, and is revising his manuscript "The Power of Language: Caste, Identity, and Society in Pátzcuaro, 1680-1750," for publication.
Viviana Leticia Grieco is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She studies the political culture of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early independent periods. Her work focuses on practices, gestures, and languages that informed and made possible the process of political subjection as well as social and racial subordination in the transition from colony to nation in Argentina. She has been awarded a 2008-2009 University of Missouri Research Board Grant for turning her doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript. She was also the recipient of the 2008-2009 José Amor y Vázquez Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI.
Reuben Zahler is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon, in Eugene, OR. He studies the evolving political and legal culture in Venezuela from the late colonial through early republican periods. He is currently working on a book that focuses on honor, corruption, and competing standards of legitimacy, 1780-1850.
Michael Gismondi is Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, and Director of the Center for Integrated Studies at Athabasca University in Canada. He is currently conducting research for a book on concessions that will examine the role of U.S. and Canadian concessionaires in Nicaragua, their influence on Nicaraguan domestic politics, and their role in American intervention during the Zelaya and Somoza eras.
Jeremy Mouat is Professor of History and Chair of the Social Sciences Department at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta in Canada. He has written widely on mining history, including an article (jointly-written with Mike Gismondi) on the American mining interests centered on the Mosquito Coast during the early twentieth century. [End Page v]
