Contributors
- Contributors
Jordana Dym is Associate Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at Skidmore College. She is the author of From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759-1839 (University of New Mexico Press, 2006) and several book chapters and articles in journals that include Mesoamérica, HAHR, and Journal of Historical Geography. Her current projects include two edited volumes: Napoléon et l’Atlantique (co-edited with Christophe Belaubre and John Savage), a collection of scholarly essays, and Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000 (with Karl Offen), an introduction to using maps as primary sources.
Frederick Douglass Opie is Associate Professor of History and Director of the African Diaspora Program at Marist College. His forthcoming books are African American and West Indian Transnationals in Caribbean Guatemala (TBA) and Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America (Columbia University Press, September of 2008). His work in progress is on Black and Latino relations in New York, 1930-1993.
David Garrett is Associate Professor of History and Humanities at Reed College. Specializing in the Andes, he researches the history of Spanish colonialism. He is the author of Shadows of Empire: The Indian Nobility of Cusco, 1750-1825 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005) and is currently working on a project on the functioning of the absolutist state in 17th-century southern Peru.
Sujay Rao is Assistant Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College, where he has been teaching Latin American history since earning his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2002. His work on nineteenth-century Argentina has been funded by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program. He is currently working on a book manuscript focusing on the emergence of federalism in Argentina’s littoral provinces from 1810 to 1829. [End Page v]
