Contributors
- Contributors
Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of history at Yale University and is currently coeditor of the HAHR. He is the author of Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609–1751 (1973), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835 (1985), and Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (1988). He is also coeditor, with Frank Salomon, of South America, vol. 3 of The Cambridge History of Native American Peoples (1999). He is presently working on a history of religious and cultural tolerance and dissidence in Iberia and colonial Latin America.
Javier Villa-Flores received his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, and is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Carlo Ginzburg: El historiador como teórico (1995). He is currently completing a book on the repression, representation, and prosecution of the sin and crime of blasphemy in colonial Mexico from 1520 to 1700.
Flávio Dos Santos Gomes received his Ph.D. at Campinas State University and is associate professor of history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Histórias de quilombolas: Mocambos e comunidades de senzalas no Rio de Janeiro, século XIX (1995); he is the editor of Nas terras do Cabo Norte: Fronteiras, ocupação e colonização na Guiana brasileira, séculos XVII–XIX (1999); and coeditor, with João José Reis, of Liberdade por um fio: História dos quilombos no Brasil (1996). He is currently working a couple of research projects: one examines peasant mobilizations and slave revolts in the states of Maranhão and Grão Pará; and the other is a study of transatlantic ethnic movements involving sailors and Africans in the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo.
Peter Blanchard received his Ph.D. at the University of London and is presently professor of history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru (1992). He is currently working on the participation of slaves in the insurgent and royalist armies during the wars of independence in Spanish South America.
Maya Talmon Chvaicer received her Ph.D. in history at the University of Haifa, where she now teaches in the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies. Her current research project explores the role of African Brazilian women in popular cultural performances.
Alejandra Bronfman received her Ph.D. at Princeton University and is assistant professor of history at Yale University. She is currently working on a history of race, law, and social science in early-twentieth-century Cuba that examines the genealogy of social categories and the emergence of political identities in the context of liberal state formation.
Richard Lee Turits received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and is assistant professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History (2003).
