Notes on the Contributors

Roderic Ai Camp is the Philip Mckenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont Mckenna College. He is the author of more than twenty books on Mexico, including: Politics in Mexico, the Democratic Transformation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), Mexico's Mandarins, Crafting a Power Elite for the 21st Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), and Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).

Louis DeSipio is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate.

Dan Klooster is Assistant Professor of Geography at Florida State University. His publications address forest management in Mexico while contributing to theories of rural development, common property, resistance, global environmental change, and the political ecology of economic integration.

Horacio Legrás is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University where he teaches Latin American Literature and Comparative Literature. He is finishing a book manuscript entitled Beyond Transculturation.

Alan Mcpherson is Assistant Professor of History at Howard University, where he specializes in U.S. foreign relations. He earned his doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001. His first book, a history of anti-U.S. sentiment in Latin America and of U.S. responses, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press (Fall 2003).

Rosario Montoya received her doctorate from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has written on popular religion, class, gender and sexuality, and nation-state formation in Nicaragua. She is coeditor of Gender's Place: Feminist Anthropologies of Latin America (New York: Palgrave 2002) and is completing a book entitled Ambiguous Revolutionaries: Exemplarity and Contradiction in a Sandinista Model Village, Nicaragua, 1979-1999. Dr. Montoya is a faculty affiliate at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Cathy A. Rakowski is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Women's Studies at the Ohio State University. Her publications have focused on the social impacts of planned development and urban projects, the gendering of municipal government, women's organizing for legal change, and the reorganization of small-scale farming and small enterprises under conditions of economic and political crisis in Latin America—particularly Venezuela—and Africa.

Stephen J. Randall is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Calgary. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was awarded the Grand Cross, Order of Merit by President Pastrana of Colombia in 2000 for his scholarly contributions to an understanding of inter-American relations. He is the author or editor of ten books, the most recent of which are Canada and the United States (with John H. Thompson, 3d ed., Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2002) and An International History of the Caribbean Basin (Routledge 1998) with G.S. Mount.

Joseph L. Scarpaci is Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, at Virginia Tech. He is co-author of Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis (University of North Carolina Press). In 2004 the University of Arizona Press will publish Barrios and Plazas: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Spanish American Historic Center.

Joanna B. Swanger is a visiting professor at the University of Texas at El Paso's Center for Inter-American and Border Studies. She teaches history and serves as the Resident Director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program in El Paso, Texas, and in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Her research interests are Latin American and U.S. labor history. She was a contributing author to Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press) and has recently served as guest editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Donna Lee Van Cott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. She is editor of Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994) and author of The Friendly Liquidation of...