Contributors
- Contributors
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley where she is Chair of the doctoral program in Medical Anthropology and Director of the Organs Watch Medical Human Rights project. Scheper-Hughes is the author of two prize-winning ethnographies, Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, and Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, and the co-editor of several books including Commodifying Bodies, Violence in War and Peace, and Violence on the Urban Margins. Her next book is The Ghosts of Montes de Oca: Naked Life and the Medically Disappeared (University of North Carolina Press), forthcoming.
Jennifer Adair is Assistant Professor of History at Fairfield University. Her research examines the Argentine transition to democracy in the 1980s, with a focus on urban community networks, state welfare programs, and economic crisis in the industrial outskirts of Buenos Aires. She is currently completing a book manuscript, “In Search of the ‘Lost Decade’: The Politics of Rights and Welfare During the Argentine Transition to Democracy, 1982–1991.”
Andrew Konove is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on shadow economies and popular politics in Mexico City’s Baratillo marketplace between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries.
Karen Racine is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Guelph (Ontario). She is the author of Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution 1750–1816, and co-editor of two volumes on the Atlantic World in Rowman & Littlefield’s Human Tradition series. Her articles have appeared in Hispanic American Historical Review, The Americas, Journal of Caribbean History, Historia Paedagogica, Journal of Genocide Research, Irish Migration Studies in Latin America, and several edited collections.
John F. Schwaller is Professor of History at the University at Albany (SUNY). He is well known for his works on the Church in early colonial Mexico and on Nahuatl, the Aztec language. He and Alfred W. Crosby have been friends for nearly 30 years. Schwaller is finishing a study of the rituals and ceremonies of the Aztec month of Panquetzaliztli and continuing work on a biography of don Luis de Velasco, the younger. [End Page vi]
