Contributors
- Contributors
Ricardo Cicerchia (Senior Research Fellow and Research Director at New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies, The University of Auckland, 2003-2004), is a National Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Sciences and Technology), Argentina, and Professor of Latin American History at University of Buenos Aires.
Matthew B. Karush is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 at the University of Chicago and is the author of Workers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912-1930) (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002). He is currently at work on a history of Argentine mass culture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Frank T. Proctor III, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Dr. Proctor completed his dissertation “Slavery, Identity and Culture: An Afro-Mexican Counterpoint, 1640-1763” in the History Department at Emory University under the direction of Susan M. Socolow in May 2003, and recently concluded a Dissertation Fellowship at Emory’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Lee M. Penyak is assistant professor of History and director of Latin American Studies at the University of Scranton. Recent publications include women in casas de depósito (Hispanic American Historical Review), colonial midwives and legal medicine (Journal of Hispanic Higher Education), and expectations of love in Mexican marriages (The Historian). He is completing research on haciendas and land reform in San Luis Potosí and compiling an anthology of primary documents on Christianity in Latin America.
Andrew G. Wood earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1997 and served as Postdoctoral Historian at the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) from 1998-2000. He is author of “Revolution in the Street: Women, Workers and Urban Protest in Veracruz, 1870-1927” (Scholarly Resources Inc., 2001) which won the 1999 Michael C. Meyer and the 2001 Thomas F. McGann Awards. Wood is currently writing a biography of Mexican songwriter Agustín Lara and working on a documentary history DVD of Carnival in Veracruz. He teaches Latin American history at the University of Tulsa. [End Page iv]
Lowell Gudmundson studied under Frederick Bowser at Stanford University (M.A. 1973) and Stuart Schwartz at the University of Minnesota (Ph.D. 1982). He teaches Latin American history at Mount Holyoke College and the other campuses of the Five College consortium, as well as in the graduate History program at the Universidad de Costa Rica. He is a coorganizer, along with Rina Cáceres and Justin Wolfe, of a major international conference (“Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the Mainland Caribbean”) to be hosted at Tulane University in Fall 2004. [End Page v]
