Notes on the Contributors
Margot Beyersdorff has taught Latin American Colonial and Modern Literature and History in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Quechua language and society for the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She specializes in Andean colonial historiography, Indo-Hispanic drama, ethnopoetics and indigenous cartography. She is the author of the book Historia y drama ritual en los Andes bolivianos, siglos XVI–XX (La Paz: Plural Editores, 1998, 2003). Her most recent publications are the review article, "Writing without Words/Words without Writing: The Culture of the Khipu" in Latin American Research Review, 40, no. 3 (2005) and the article, "Theater on the Royal Road: Andean and Spanish Scriptwriters Representing the Indian" in Colonial Latin American Review, 15, no. 2 (2006).
Mark Carey is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Washington and Lee University. After completing his PhD at the University of California, Davis, he was an S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Glacier Politics: A History of Climate Change and Natural Disasters in Twentieth-Century Peru.
Julio F. Carrión is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Delaware. He has published a series of books, book chapters, articles, and encyclopedia entries in both English and Spanish. His main research interests focus on public opinion and political behavior in Latin America. He is currently working on the microfoundations of mass support for illiberal rule in Latin America, and on a book about social transformations and political change in the Andes. His most recent publication is the edition of The Fujimori Legacy: The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism in Peru (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).
Christopher L. Chiappari is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota. His research on indigenous religion, Protestantism, identity, hybridity and social movements focuses on the Maya in Guatemala. He translated, with Silvia López, Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity, by Néstor García Canclini. He is currently working on a book manuscript on religion, identity and power in highland Guatemala.
María Elena Díaz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Virgin, the King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670–1780 (2000). Her research interests focus on (macro and micro) discourses and practices underwriting slavery and freedom—and other "hybrid" status [End Page 316] possibilities. She is presently working on the transformation of "old regime" antislavery discourses in the Spanish Atlantic world (particularly Cuba and Spain) during the Age of Revolution (1780s–1830s).
Cristina Escobar is a research associate at the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, San Diego. She has done research on citizenship and political participation in Latin America and among Latino immigrants in the United States. She is currently involved in a research project on Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican immigrant organizations in the United States and their impact both in the countries of origin and the United States. Her recent publications include "Immigrant Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative Study" (International Migration Review, 41, no. 1 [2007] with Alejandro Portes and Alexandra Radford); and "Migration and Citizen Rights: The Mexican Case" (Citizenship Studies. 10, no.5 [2006)]).
Ashley Finley is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College. She specializes in social stratification and gender inequality, with emphasis on Latin America. Her current research focuses on resource deprivation among female-headed households in Mexico. More broadly, she is interested in the interplay of gender, poverty, and issues of globalization.
Orchid Mazurkiewicz is Director of the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) at the University of California Los Angeles Latin American Center. She received an MLIS and an MA in History from the University of Toronto...
