Contributors
- Contributors
David Espinosa is an assistant professor of Latin American history at Rhode Island College. He obtained his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998. His dissertation is entitled “Jesuit Higher Education in Post-revolutionary Mexico: The Iberoamerican University 1943-1970.” Professor Espinosa’s Ph.D. advisors included Dr. Sarah Cline and Dr. David Rock.
Steinar A. Saether was educated at the University of Oslo, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Warwick University where he received a Ph.D. in History in 2002. His dissertation was titled Identities and Independence in the Provinces of Santa Marta and Riohacha (Colombia), ca. 1750; ca. 1850. From August 2003 he has been Assistant Professor in History at Vestfold University College in Norway.
Kimberly J. Morse received a Ph.D. in Latin American History from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Her dissertation, “Aun en la muerte separados: Class, Clergy, and Society in Aragua de Barcelona, Venezuela, 1820-1875” explores the role of the clergy in the construction of elite hegemony in eastern Venezuela, and the repercussions for the lower class, women, and people of color. Information in her article builds on her interest in the role of clergy in society.
Patrick Barr-Melej is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998 and is the author of Reforming Chile: Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). He also has published works in the Journal of Latin American Studies and in Chilean journals. His current book project, which is under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, focuses on youth, counterculture, and cultural politics in Chile during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [End Page iv]
