Contributors
- Contributors
Aviva Chomsky is associate professor of history at Salem State College in Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has previously taught at Bates College. Her book, West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica, won the 1997 New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Award. She also edited, with Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean (1998). With Barry Carr and Pamela Smorkaloff, she is currently editing a reader on Cuba for Duke University Press. Her ongoing research focuses on issues of race, immigration, and nationalism in Cuba.
John Soluri is assistant professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he studied Latin American history and environmental policy. He is completing a book manuscript that explores the social and environmental history of export banana growing in Honduras.
Ariel De La Fuente is assistant professor of history at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency During the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853–1870) (2000).
Seth Garfield is visiting assistant professor of Latin American history at Bowdoin College. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His articles on the cultural construction of the “Indian” during the Brazilian Estado Novo have been published in the Journal of Latin American Studies (1997) and Revista da História Brasileira (2000). His forthcoming book from Duke University Press examines Indian policy, constructions of ethnicity, and indigenous political mobilization in Brazil in the context of twentieth-century frontier expansion.
