Contributors
- Contributors
Asunción Lavrin is Professor Emerita from Arizona State University. She is the author of Brides of Christ: Conventual Life in Colonial Mexico and Women, Feminism and Social Change: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940, as well as several edited and co-edited books in English and Spanish on women in Mexico and Spanish America. She has published extensively on the topics of women’s history—colonial and twentieth century—and ecclesiastical history. She is currently working on masculinity and the mendicant orders in colonial Mexico.
Howard J. Wiarda is Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and founding head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. A prolific author, Dr. Wiarda has written or edited over 70 books and authored over 300 scholarly articles, book chapters, op-eds, and congressional testimonies. Some of his best-known books include Divided America on the World Stage (Potomac, 2009), Globalization (2008), American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins, 1996), Development on the Periphery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), Introduction to Comparative Politics, 2nd ed. (Harcourt, 2000), European Politics in the Age of Globalization (Harcourt, 2001), Latin American Politics and Development, 7th ed. (Westview, 2010), Civil Society (Westview, 2003), Political Development in Emerging Nations (Wadsworth, 2004), Policy Passages (Praeger, 2002), Comparative Democracy and Democratization (Harcourt, 2002), and Corporatism and Comparative Politics (M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
Peter M. Beattie is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. He has authored The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation 1864–1845 and has edited and contributed to The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil. Since 2003, Beattie has served as coeditor of the Luso-Brazilian Review for the areas of history and social science. He is currently working on a book manuscript on penal justice in imperial Brazil.
Ian Read is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. He previously lectured at University of California, Berkeley, and received his doctorate in history from Stanford University in 2006. Currently, he is developing a book-length project on the social and economic consequences of epidemics in Imperial and early Republican Brazil. [End Page v]
