Contributors
- Contributors
Emily Berquist is an Assistant Professor at California State University Long Beach, where she teaches Colonial Latin American History. In August 2007, she completed her Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Texas, where she worked with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Susan Deans-Smith, and Ann Twinam. She is currently revising her dissertation into a book manuscript tentatively entitled The Science of Empire: Bishop Martínez Compañón and the Enlightenment in the Hispanic World.
Jerry Dávila is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Executive Secretary of the Conference on Latin American History. His publications include Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (Duke: 2003) and he is currently completing a book on Brazilian encounters with Africa during decolonization.
Kelly Donahue-Wallace is associate professor of Latin American art history at the University of North Texas. Her research addresses the history of prints in eighteenth-century Mexico City and the function of prints in the colonial context. Her studies of Mexican prints have appeared in Print Quarterly, Colonial Latin American Review, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and the Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas. Her book Art and Architecture of Viceregal Latin America was published by University of New Mexico Press. She is also a contributing author of Transforming Images: New Mexican Santos In Between Worlds with Claire Farago and Donna Pierce, and co-editor of Teaching Art History with Technology: Reflections and Case Studies with Andrea Pappas and Laetitia La Follette. Dr. Donahue-Wallace is the recipient of a Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, numerous University of North Texas faculty research and teaching grants, and the Bernardo Mendel Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Indiana University.
Zachary R. Morgan is an assistant professor of history at Boston College. He did his graduate work at Brown University, where he was a student of Thomas E. Skidmore. His current book project, “Legacy of the Lash: Race, Trans-Atlantic Radicalism, and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy, 1860-1910,” examines the experience of enlisted service in Brazil’s thoroughly, if informally, segregated navy in the half century leading up to the 1910 Revolta da Chibata (“Revolt of the Lash”), in which more than two thousand mostly Afro-Brazilian sailors mutinied, deposing their white officers [End Page v] and taking control over the battleships that had briefly made Brazil one of the world’s most technologically advanced naval powers.
Leslie S. Offutt is an Associate Professor of Latin American history at Vassar College, specializing in colonial Mexican ethnohistory and social history. Her research focuses on northern New Spain in the late seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries. Her book Saltillo, 1770-1810: Town and Region in the Mexican North was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2001. She is presently engaged in a project that examines the Nahuatl-speaking populations of northeastern New Spain and their interactions with Spanish and native peoples in that region between 1660-1800. The present article is part of that larger research project. [End Page vi]
