Contributors
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Paulina Alberto Assistant Professor in the departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures (Programs in Spanish and Portuguese) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, specializing in Brazilian history. Her research and teaching address the ways that ideologies of race and nation have shaped citizenship in Latin American societies since independence; specifically, how competing definitions of race and nation, enunciated by political and intellectual elites as well as by people of color, produced different ideas about the meanings of racial inclusiveness across Latin America. Her book manuscript, Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals and the Politics of Belonging in Twentieth-Century Brazil (forthcoming), charts the changing terms through which self-defined negro Brazilians defined their multi-racial nation, and their own citizenship within it, between 1920 and 1980.
Hebe Maria da Costa Mattos Gomes de Castro is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal Fluminense and is the author of books and articles on Brazilian history including Das cores do silêncio: Os significados da liberdade no sudeste escravista (1996); Escravidão e cidadania no Brasil Monárquico (2000); and Memórias do cativeiro: Família, trabalho e cidadania no pós-aboliçcão (2005), edited with Ana Maria Lugão Rios.
Isabel A. Ferreira Gould is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Notre Dame. She is presently working on a book project that reflects on the significance of the intimate dimension of the African empire in the construction of colonial and post-imperial Portuguese identity. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD) to conduct research in Portugal and to revise the manuscript during 2007–2008. Her research and teaching interests include family, dictatorship, war, colonial/postcolonial/post-imperial identities, diaspora, underdevelopment, and social change in contemporary Luso-Brazilian and Lusophone African literatures and cinema. She has published in recent and forthcoming issues of Atlântida, Revista Letras de Hoje, Luso-Brazilian Review and Lusografias. [End Page 225]
Walter Hawthorne is Associate Professor of African History at Michigan State University. He is the author of Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400–1900 (Heinemann, 2003), and with funding from a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, is preparing a book manuscript about linkages between the Upper Guinea Coast, Portugal and Maranhão from 1650 to 1830. He has published articles in Slavery and Abolition and Journal of African History.
Ana Gabriela Macedo is Associate Professor in the English Department at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal, where she is also the director of the Humanities Research Centre. Her research areas are Comparative Literature, English Literature (Modernism and Postmodernism), Feminist Studies and Visual Poetics. Macedo’s most recent book is Narrativas do Poder/O Poder das Narrativas, organized with Maria Eduarda Keating and published by the Universidade do Minho in 2007 and the Dicionário da Crítica Feminista (2005) edited with Ana Luísa Amaral.
Thaïs Machado-Borges is an anthropologist and research fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. She is the author of Only for You! Brazilians and the Telenovela Flow (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2003), and has written articles in scholarly journals and popular magazines on topics such as cosmetic surgery, Brazilian telenovelas, media and transgression. She is currently researching on the theme of social inequality, bodies, and physical interventions among lower-income and middle-class women in Brazil.
Ben Penglase is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Loyola University Chicago. His research examines how urban violence, inequality and insecurity are reshaping everyday life in Brazil. His publications include Final Justice: Police and Death Squad Homicides of Adolescents in Brazil and articles in the journals Anthropology Today and Crime Media Culture.
Juliana Beatriz de Almeida Souza is Adjunct Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro specializing on the role of religion in the early-modern Portuguese Empire. Her articles include: “Virgem mestiça: Devoção à Nossa Senhora na colonização do Novo Mundo,” “Mãe negra de um povo mestiço: Devo...
