Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
- Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
Antonio Sotomayor <asotomay@illinois.edu> is Assistant Professor and Librarian for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research centers on the history, politics, and culture of sport in Latin America, more specifically the Spanish Caribbean. His forthcoming book, The Sovereign Colony: Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), explores the political process of Puerto Rico’s entry into the Olympic movement, a story immersed in local and international politics and cultural nationalism. His work also appears in journals such as Journal of Sport History and CENTRO Journal. He is currently working on a comparative study of colonial Olympism in Puerto Rico and Jamaica, and a study of religion, sport, and imperialism through the YMCA in turn of the twentieth century Puerto Rico. He has a Ph.D. in History of Latin America from the University of Chicago, and has taught Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Chicago, and at Knox College in Illinois.
Micah Wright <micah921@neo.tamu.edu> is a doctoral candidate at Texas A&M University, where he focuses on inter-American relations in the 20th century. His dissertation, “Puerto Rico and the U.S. Empire in the Caribbean, 1898-1924,” details Puerto Rican participation in the occupations of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924) and Panama (1918-1920) and the consequences for U.S. regional hegemony, inter-American relations, Puerto Rican national identity, and the development of hispanidad. Mr. Wright was a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Estudios del Caribe at the University of Puerto Rico in 2011 and has received grants from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for the Humanities, and the George H.W. Bush President Library. His articles have appeared in Diplomacy and Statecraft, Clío (Dominican Republic), and The Black Scholar.
Antonio Santamaría García <asantamaria@eehaa.csic.es> es doctor en Historia. Trabaja en el Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, es académico extranjero de la Academia de la Historia de Cuba y ha trabajado en el Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y la Universidad de Oxford. Es especialista en Historia Económica de América Latina, el Caribe y Cuba, y autor de numerosos artículos sobre el tema, especialmente acerca de la industria azucarera y la economía, así como de los libros Sin azúcar no hay país. La industria azucarera y la economía cubana, 1919-1939 (Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela de Estudios [End Page 283] Hispano-Americanos, CSIC, Diputación de Sevilla, 2002); La América española, 1765-1898. Economía. (Madrid: CSIC, 2004); La industria azucarera en América (Madrid: CSIC, monográfico de Revista de Indias 233, 2005, editor); Los ingenios. Colección de visitas a los principales ingenios de azúcar de la isla de Cuba (Aranjuez: Doce Calles, CEHOPU, CSIC, Fundación Mapfre-Tavera, 2005, editor; autor: Justo G. Cantero); Las economías latinoamericanas en perspectiva histórica (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera, monográfico de Debate y Perspectivas 5, 2006, editor); Historia económica de Puerto Rico. Bibliografía y fuentes publicadas (Madrid: Fundación Mapfre-Tavera, 2006); Más allá del azúcar: política, diversificación y prácticas económicas en Cuba, 1878-1930 (Madrid: Doce Calles, 2009, editor); Historia de Cuba (Madrid: Doce Calles, 2009, equipo editorial).
Toni Pressley-Sanon <tony.sanon@gmail.com> earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. An Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University, she has conducted extensive research in Benin Republic, West Africa and Haiti. Her areas of specialization include contemporary West African and African-Caribbean cultural production, trauma and memory studies. Some published works: “Re-Assessing Representations of the Peasant in Haitian Painting” (Callaloo, Journal of the African Diaspora Arts and Letters), “Watching You Watching Me: The Work of...
