Contributors
- Contributors
O’Neill (Nelly) Blacker received her doctorate in history at the University of Washington in 2005. She is Assistant Professor of History at Valparaiso University, and previously taught at the University of Washington, University of the Pacific, and Bowdoin College. While concurrently working on a book-length manuscript on the popular movements in Guerrero, she is also developing a project on competing claims of Mexican, Latino/a, and working-class identity during the California labor struggles of the 1930s.
Douglas Cole Libby is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and research fellow at the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. He is the author of Transformação e trabalho (1988) and, with Eduardo França Paiva, A escravidão no Brasil: relações sociais, acordos e conflitos (2005). He has also published articles in The Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review, Slavery & Abolition, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review.
Afonso de Alencastro Graça Filho, author of A princesa do oeste e o mito da decadência de Minas Gerais: São João del Rei, 1831–1888 (2002) and, with Douglas Cole Libby, Economia do Império brasileiro (2004), is Associate Professor of History at Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei and research fellow at the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. His articles have appeared in a number of Brazilian academic journals.
Michael A. Ervin is Associate Professor of History at Central Washington University, where he also directs the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies. His research focuses on the middle class, nationalism, and state formation in post-revolutionary Mexico. He is nearing completion of a book, The Art of the Possible: Agronomists and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, which seeks a more systematic understanding of professionals’ roles in Mexico’s revolutionary process.
Miguel León-Portilla is Professor of Nahuatl Studies and Emeritus Investigator in the pre-Hispanic Area of the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Dr. León-Portilla is the editor of the journal Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl. He is the author of numerous books on Mexico’s pre-Columbian past. He is the recipient of various honorary doctorates from leading universities, as well as formerly Mexico’s ambassador to UNESCO and a member of the Academia Mexicana de Historia.
John F. Schwaller is Professor of History and President of the State University of New York at Potsdam. He is the author of several books on the Church in sixteenth-century Mexico, a guide to Nahuatl language manuscripts in the United States, and editor of works on the Franciscan Order in the Americas. He is currently finishing a single-volume history of the Catholic Church in the Americas. His research includes a biography of don Luis de Velasco, the Younger, and several studies of Nahuatl language works from the colonial period. [End Page v]
