Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
André Borges is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Brasília. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2005. He has published articles in Public Administration and Development, Brazilian Political Science Review, and Bulletin of Latin American Research. His research interests include federalism, comparative subnational politics, social policy decentralization, and the geography of elections in Brazil.
Kia Lilly Caldwell is an associate professor of Afro-American studies and adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests include gender, race, citizenship, and public policy in Brazil. Her book Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity was published by Rutgers University Press in 2007. She is also the coeditor of Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Roger Alex Clapp received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California at Berkeley and is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His research interests involve forest ecology, conservation and management, human-nature relations, and the uses of science in the environmental policy process.
Sara Dewachter is a researcher at the Institute of Development Policy and Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the political science faculty of the Catholic University of Leuven. Her research interests include political participation, civil society, and development aid architecture.
Adrián Félix is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include Mexico-U.S. migration, migrant political transnationalism, migrant political mobilization, and state-diaspora relations. His research has been published in the American Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, and Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled “Transnational (After)life: Migrant Transnationalism and Engagement in U.S. and Mexican Politics.”
Catherine Leah Gold received her MA in geography in 2006 from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and is currently studying midwifery at Ryerson University in Ontario. Her research interests include pain perception, cultural meanings, and indigenous medicine in childbirth.
Liliana R. Goldín is an anthropology professor in the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research in the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. Her research explores economic and ideological domains and, in particular, labor ideologies. Her most recent book is Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala (University of Arizona Press, 2009). Her current research projects focus [End Page 233] on occupational strategies of highland Maya and life paths to socioeconomic success among U.S. Latinos.
Bret Gustafson earned a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University and is currently an associate professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He has studied and worked with indigenous language and territorial rights movements in Bolivia and Guatemala, and he is the author of New Languages of the State: Indigenous Resurgence and the Politics of Knowledge in Bolivia (Duke University Press, 2009), on the politics of knowledge and indigenous education in Bolivia. His current research is on the cultural geopolitics of natural gas, territory, and state developmentalism in Bolivia and Brazil.
Frances Hagopian is Jorge Paulo Lemann Visiting Associate Professor for Brazil Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and associate professor of political science and faculty fellow and former director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the comparative politics of Latin America, with emphasis on democratization, political representation, political economy, and religion and politics. She is author of Reorganizing Representation in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996), editor of Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), coeditor (with Scott Mainwaring) of The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2005), and author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Asunción Lavrin is emerita professor of history at Arizona State University. She has published...
