Contributors
- Contributors
Marc Brudzinski is assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures at the University of Miami.
Santiago Castro-Gómez is assistant professor of social sciences at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and researcher at the university’s Instituto de Estudios Sociales y Culturales PENSAR. He is the author of Crítica de la razón latinoamericana (1996) and editor of La reestructuración de las ciencias sociales en América Latina (2000). He coedited Teorías sin disciplina (with Eduardo Mendieta, 1998) and Pensar (en) los intersticios (with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Carmen Millán de Benavides, 1999).
Rubén Chuaqui teaches the history of the Islamic world at the Colegio de México’s Center for Asian and African Studies in Mexico City. His research interests include the problem of objectivity and the history of logic.
Ishita Banerjee Dube is a professor and researcher at the Colegio de México’s Center for Asian and African Studies in Mexico City. She has been a fellow at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, in Calcutta, and at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, in Shimla. She is the author of Divine Affairs: Religion, Pilgrimage, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India (2001). Her articles have appeared in Subaltern Studies and Estudios de Asia y Africa. She is currently completing a manuscript, “Emergent Histories: Religion, Law, and Power in Eastern India.”
Saurabh Dube is professor of history at the Colegio de México’s Center for Asian and African Studies in Mexico City. His books include Untouchable Pasts (1998), Sujetos subalternos (2001), and Stitches on Time (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He has edited Pasados poscoloniales (1999), Historical Anthropology (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), Postcolonial Passages (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and the forthcoming special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly titled Enduring Enchantments (2002). [End Page 429]
Madhu Dubey is associate professor of English and Africana studies at Brown University. She is the author of Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (1994) and Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
Enrique Dussel is professor of ethics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He is the author of The Invention of the Americas (1995), The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Taylor, and Rorty (1996), Etica de la liberación en la edad de la globalización y de la exclusión (1998; forthcoming in translation from Duke University Press), and Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1861–63 (2001).
Edgardo Lander is professor of social sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. He recently compiled La colonialidad del saber: Eurocentrismo y ciencias sociales—Perspectivas latinoamericanas (2000).
Andrés Lira is president of the Colegio de México and a member of the Mexican Academy of History. His books include El amparo colonial y el juicio de amparo mexicano: Antecedentes novohispanicos del juicio de amparo (1972) and Comunidades indígenas frente a la Ciudad de México: Tenochtitlán y Tlatelolco, sus pueblos y barrios, 1812–1919 (1983).
Desirée A. Martín is a Ph. D. candidate in Duke University’s Program in Literature. She is currently writing her dissertation on U.S.-Mexico border studies and Mexican nationalism, focusing on iconic cross-border figures who emerge from moments of rebellion.
Mariana Past is a graduate student in the Romance Studies Department at Duke University. Interested primarily in Caribbean literature, she is pursuing a dual degree in Spanish and French. Her dissertation will deal with historical representations of the Haitian Revolution in twentieth-century literary texts from Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad. [End Page 430]
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is assistant professor of English and ethnic studies at Brown University. She has conducted extensive research in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Chiapas (Mexico) on the intersection of indigenous subjectivity, peasant culture, and development politics within revolutionary movements. Her book, Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Sudipta Sen, associate professor of history at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is the author of Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of...
