Contributors
- Contributors
Marc Eagle received his Ph.D. from Tulane University and is assistant professor of History and co-director of the Latin American Studies program at Western Kentucky University. His current book project focuses on the intersection of administration and society in the seventeenth-century audiencia of Santo Domingo.
Yuko Miki is assistant professor of Latin American History at Washington University in St. Louis and secretary of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). She is the author of "Diasporic Africans and Postcolonial Brazil: Notes on the Intersection of Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Nation" in Revista Unisinos (2011) and is currently completing a book manuscript on postcolonial territorial conquest and the intersection of black and indigenous history in nineteenth-century Brazil.
Stephen J. C. Andes received his doctorate at Oxford University and is assistant professor of History at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (Odessa). His recent work includes an article exploring the impact of the Vatican on Catholic identity in postrevolutionary Mexico and a chapter in an edited volume detailing the impact of the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) on Chilean Catholics. His current book project examines Vatican policy toward Catholic social and political movements in Mexico and Chile during the inter-war period.
Eric Van Young is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, where he has chaired his department and served as interim Dean of Arts and Humanities. His most recent major published work, The Other Rebellion: Popular Violence, Ideology, and the Struggle for Mexican Independence, 1810-1821 (2001), won the Bolton-Johnson Prize in 2003; he has authored, edited, or co-edited several other books. A volume of his essays, Writing Mexican History, has just been published. A Corresponding Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, he was awarded the Medalla 2008 by the government of the Federal District in Mexico in 2009 and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. A specialist on the history of colonial and nineteenth-century Mexico, he is writing a biography of the Mexican statesman, entrepreneur, and historian Lucas Alamán (1792-1853). [End Page v]
