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  • Contributors

MÍLADA BAZANT has a PhD in social science. She worked as a professor at the Colegio de México for ten years and has been at the Colegio Mexiquense since 1980. Her major field of study is the history of education and daily life and biography in Mexico, 1850–1930. She has written several books and articles about these subjects, including Historia de la educación durante el Porfiriato (History of Education during the Porfirio Díaz Era, El Colegio de México, México, 1993); “Crónica de un baile clandestino” (“Chronicle of a Clandestine Dance”) in Mílada Bazant and Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru (editors) Tradiciones y conflictos. Historias de la vida cotidiana en México e Hispanoamérica (Traditions and Conflicts. Daily Life Stories in Mexico and Latin America, El Colegio de México y El Colegio Mexiquense, 2007); “Lo verdadero, lo verosímil, lo ficticio” (“The Truthful, the Believable, the Fictitious”) in Biografía. Métodos, metodologías y enfoques (Biography: Methods, Methodologies and Approaches, El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C., 2013), which she also edited; and she is the editor of Ni héroes. Ni villanos. Retrato e imagen de personajes mexicanos del siglo XIX (Portrayals and Images of Famous Nineteenth Century Mexicans, Miguel Angel Porrúa y El Colegio Mexiquense, 2005).

DINA BERGER is an associate professor of history at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses on Latin American and inter-American history. She is the co-editor of Holiday in Mexico: Critical Reflections on Tourism and Tourist Encounter (Duke University Press, 2010) and author of The Development of Mexico’s Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2006). She is currently working on a book project under contract with the University of Texas Press that examines Pan American friendship and civic clubs in the twentieth century.

ANN S. BLUM is associate professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Domestic Economies: Family Work and Welfare in Mexico City, 1884–1943 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009), which examines domestic labor and child circulation, and has published numerous articles on domestic labor, maternal-child health, and adoption. Her current research examines fatherhood in modern Mexico.

NICOLE L. PACINO is an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she teaches Latin American and world history [End Page 197] classes. She received her doctorate in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2013, and is currently working on a book manuscript about public health programs in the Bolivian countryside during the country’s National Revolution (1952–1964).

ALISON M. PARKER is a professor of history at the College at Brockport, State University of New York. She is the author of Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century American Women on Race, Reform, and the State (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010) and Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873–1933 (Illinois University Press, 1997). Parker is the editor, along with Carol Faulkner (Syracuse University), of a new book series, Gender and Race in American History, for the University of Rochester Press. Parker is writing a book on Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), the first president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Her most recent article on Terrell is “’The Picture of Health’: The Public Life and Private Ailments of Mary Church Terrell,” (Journal of Historical Biography, 2013).

INÉS PÉREZ is an Argentinean historian. She holds a doctorate in social sciences (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2011). She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, and as a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet). Her research focuses on the history of domestic work in Argentina during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

SHERIE M. RANDOLPH is an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The former Associate Director of the Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College is the author of the forthcoming manuscript Black Feminist Radical...

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