Contributors
- Contributors
Gilbert M. Joseph is the Farnam Professor of history, director of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University, and coeditor of the HAHR. His most recent books are coedited collections, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1998), Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940 (2001), and Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times (2001).
Sueann Caulfield is associate professor of history and director of the Latin American Studies program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil (2000) and several articles on gender, race, and the social history of Rio de Janeiro. Her current research focuses on family separation, divorce, and illegitimacy in twentieth-century Brazil.
Thomas Miller Klubock is associate professor of history at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–1951 (1998). He is currently working on a book on labor and environment in Chile’s southern frontier.
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison is assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900–1930 (forthcoming), which is a study of women and work in urban Chile; she is the coeditor, with Lorena Godoy, Karin Rosenblatt, and M. Soledad Zárate, of Disciplina y desacato (1995). Her present work involves the study of migration, ethnicity, and class relations in twentieth-century Chile through the institution of domestic service.
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt is assistant professor of history at Syracuse University. She is the author of Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920–1950 (2000) and numerous articles on gender, labor, nationalism, and state-building. She is currently conducting research for a book that chronicles changes in citizenship in post-1960s Chile and coediting a book of essays on race and nation in modern Latin America.
Heidi Tinsman is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Sexuality, Gender, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973 (forthcoming) and several articles on women agricultural workers during Chile’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s.
Pablo Piccato is assistant professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931 (2001). His recent publications include “‘Urbanistas, Ambulantes, and Mendigos’: The Dispute for Urban Space in Mexico City, 1890–1930,” in Reconstructing Criminality in Latin America, ed. Carlos Aguirre and Robert Buffington (2000); and “Politics and the Technology of Honor: Dueling in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico,” Journal of Social History (1999).
Cristina Rivera-Garza is associate professor of Mexican history at San Diego State University. She is the author of the award-winning historical novel Nadie me verá llorar (2002). Her recent publications include “Dangerous Minds: Changing Psychiatric Views of the Mentally Ill in Porfirian Mexico,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2001); and “Becoming Mad in Revolutionary Mexico: Mentally Ill Patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910–1930,” in The Confinement of the Insane, 1800–1965: International Perspectives, ed. Roy Porter and David Wright (2001). She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Mad Narratives: Psychiatrists and Inmates Debate Gender, Class, and the Nation at the General Insane Asylum La Castañeda, Mexico, 1910–1930.”
Martin Nesvig is a doctoral candidate in the History Department and a Mellon Fellow at Yale University. His is the author of “The Lure of the Perverse: Moral Negotiation of Pederasty in Porfirian Mexico,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos (2000). His dissertation, “The World of ‘Calificadores’: Censorship, Theology, and Politics in a Colonial Society, Mexico 1542–1700,” is in progress.
