Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Leonardo Avritzer is associate professor of political science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. He is the author of Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America (Princeton University Press).
Eernesto Capello is assistant professor of Latin American History at the University of Vermont. He received his doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on urban history, transnational identities, and memory and has been published in journals such as City, ISTOR, and the Journal of Latin American Urban Studies. He is currently completing a book that treats space, history, and modernity in Quito, Peru, between 1880 and 1940.
Jorge I. Domínguez is Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics and vice provost for international affairs at Harvard University. His most recent book about Cuba is Cuba hoy: Analizando su pasado, imaginando su futuro (Madrid: Editorial Colibrí, 2006).
Rebecca Earle teaches in the history department of the University of Warwick. Her current research explores the cultural history of food in Spanish America. She recently completed a monograph on nineteenth-century nationalism's engagement with the preconquest past, to be published later this year by Duke University Press.
Gustavo PÉrez Firmat is David Feinson Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His recent books include Tongue Ties (2003), a study of the erotics of bilingualism, and Scar Tissue (2005), a memoir in prose and verse. "Latunes: An Introduction" is part of an ongoing study of the Cuban "footprint" in U.S. culture.
Christine Folch is a Ph.D. candidate in cultural anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. In addition to her research in Caribbean identity as mediated through food, cuisine, and consumption, she is currently working on a dissertation centered on issues of geographic imaginary, border identities, territory, and national sovereignty in the Triple Frontera, Paraguay's frontier with Argentina and Brazil.
Tina Hilgers is Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) postdoctoral fellow at McGill University's Centre for Developing Area Studies. Her research focuses on Latin American comparative politics, particularly clientelism, political parties, and social organizations.
David P. Kennedy received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida in 2002. Since 2005, he has worked as an associate behavioral social scientist at RAND Corporation and as a senior public administration analyst at the UCLA/NPI Health Services Research Center. He specializes in the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodology and has investigated a range of subjects, including depression, [End Page 306] attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Raúl Necochea López is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at McGill University. His research interests include the history of the Andean region and the history of medicine. He has published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and in Advances in Qualitative Organizational Research. His dissertation is a history of fertility control in Peru from 1895 to 1976.
Beatriz Magaloni is assistant professor of political science at Stanford University. Her most recent book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico, was published by Cambridge University in 2006. This book won two best book awards given by two separate sections of the American Political Science Association in 2007. She is currently working on a second book on social policies and poverty in Mexico.
Kathleen Ann Myers is professor of Spanish and history at Indiana University. She has published several books on colonial Latin American women, including Neither Saints nor Sinners: Writing the Lives for Colonial Spanish American Women (Oxford, 2003). Her new book on Fernández de Oviedo has just been published by the University of Texas Press. Professor Myers has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from Spain's Ministry for Culture and Education for her research.
Héctor Perla Jr. is an assistant professor of political science at Ohio University, where he is also a core faculty member of the Latin American studies program. During 2007 and 2008, he is in residence at University of California, Irvine, as a recipient of the University of...
