Contributors
- Contributors
Stanley E. Blake teaches at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in history from Stony Brook University in 2001. He is currently working on a manuscript on regional identity and state building in northeastern Brazil between 1889 and 1945.
Frances L. Ramos is a Ph.D. candidate in history and a Harrington Dissertation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. Her dissertation focuses on the relationship between public ceremony, the maintenance of political power, and identity formation in colonial Puebla. She is currently completing “The Politics of Ritual in Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico, 1695-1775” under the direction of Susan Deans-Smith.
Christine Rivas completed her Master’s degree at the University of Ottawa, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Carleton University.
Kirwin R. Shaffer is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Co-Coordinator of Global Studies at Penn State University—Berks/Lehigh Valley. His research and publications have centered on anarchism in Cuba in the first thirty years following political independence from Spain. A booklength manuscript on this topic is in the works, while he initiates research on a new topic focusing on transnational Latin American labor radicalism.
