- Contributors
Camillia Cowling is a postdoctoral researcher (Leverhulme Trust, UK) working on gender, slavery, and abolition in Cuba and Brazil. She completed her PhD at the Institute for the Study of Slavery, University of Nottingham (UK), in 2007. Her work has been published in Slavery & Abolition (2005) and in the volume Trabalho livre, trabalho escravo: Brasil e Europa, séculos XVIII e XIX, eds. Douglas Cole Libby and Júnia Ferreira Furtado (São Paulo: Annablume, 2006).
Jorge L. Giovannetti teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He has been British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Caribbean Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University and held a visiting appointment at the Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University. He is the author of Sonidos de condena: Sociabilidad, historia, y política en la música reggae de Jamaica (2001) and his articles have been published in Caribbean Studies (2002), Small Axe (2006), and Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies (2006).
Robert L. Huish, a doctoral fellow with Canada's Trudeau Foundation and visiting scholar at l'Université de Montréal, is conducting his doctoral research at Simon Fraser University on the impact of Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine in parts of the continent where poor people have little, if any, access to health care. His master's work at Queen's University focused on issues of nationalism, specifically the role played by José Martí in forging Cuban nationalism.
W. George Lovell, coeditor of Mesoamerica, is professor of geography at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and visiting professor in Latin American history at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. Much of his published work over the past thirty years has examined the vicissitudes of the Mayas' survival in Guatemala.
Robert Nasatir teaches Spanish language and literature at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Lawrence University and Berklee College of Music before receiving his BA from Belmont University. He has a master's degree in comparative literature and a doctorate in Spanish, both from Vanderbilt University. His research interests include poetry, popular music, and the Cuban Revolution. In addition to publishing translations, including Poema del Cante Jondo by Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, Nasatir has contributed to the Afro-Hispanic Review and written biographical articles on Mongo Santamaría and Nicolás Guillén for the African American National Biography, published by Oxford University Press. [End Page 193]
Lisandro Pérez is professor of sociology at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. In 1991 he founded FIU's Cuban Research Institute and served as its director until 2003. He has also served as the editor of the journal Cuban Studies and is the coauthor of the book The Legacy of Exile: Cubans in the United States, published by Allyn & Bacon. His most recent publication is the chapter on Cubans for The New Americans, a sourcebook on U.S. immigration published by Harvard University Press.
Ann Marie Stock, associate professor of Hispanic studies and film studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, teaches courses on visual culture and identity, among other topics. Stock is the editor of Framing Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Critical Perspectives and the author of numerous essays on Latin American cinema. She has traveled to Cuba more than forty times over the past two decades conducting research, leading study programs, serving as a consultant, and participating in film and cultural events. As the founding director of the nonprofit Cuban Cinema Classics initiative (www.cubancinemaclassics.org), Stock disseminates Cuban documentaries in the United States. She serves as a member of the executive committee of the Havana Film Festival of New York, and regularly participates as a juror for such film events as the Sundance Festival and Cinergia. Her book-length study documenting the island's rapidly changing audiovisual landscape, On Location in Cuba, is forthcoming. [End Page 194]