Contributors
- Contributors
Erick D. Langer is director of the Center for Latin American Studies and professor of History in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is author and co-author of various books, of which the most recent is Expecting Pears from an Elm Tree: A History of the Franciscan Missions Among the Chiriguanos in the Heart of South America (2009). He is also editor-in-chief of the online database World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean.
Nora E. Jaffary is associate professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico (2004) and editor of Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader (2010) and Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas (2007). She is writing a history of birth and birth control in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Mexico.
Dalia Antonia Muller is assistant professor of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo and associate director of the university's graduate program in Caribbean studies. Her research focuses on travel, exile, and immigration in the nineteenth- and twentieth- century greater Caribbean, an area she defines to include the insular Caribbean and the Central, South American, and United States coastlines, along with the diasporic communities. She is completing her first book project, which examines the impact of the Cuban independence struggle in nineteenth-century Mexico.
Edward Wright-Ríos is associate professor of Latin American History at Vanderbilt University. He has published articles and essays on religion, Indian-centered nationalism, and ecclesiastical reform and popular religious practice. In 2009 he published Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation, 1887-1934. His second book, in progress, examines the cultural legacy of an apocryphal Mexican prophetess named madre Matiana, from the 1850s to the 1960s. [End Page v]
