Notes On The Contributors
- Notes On The Contributors
michael albertus is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His research interests include redistribution, political regime transitions and stability, politics under dictatorship, and clientelism. Albertus’s most recent work has been published in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Comparative Political Studies, Economics and Politics, and Comparative Politics. He is currently working on a manuscript that explores when and why land reform programs are implemented and why they are structured in different ways, with a focus on Latin America.
mark daniel anderson is associate professor of Latin American literatures and cultures at the University of Georgia. He conducts research primarily on Mexican and Brazilian cultural texts dealing with crisis, natural disaster, and eco-critical topics. He is the author of Disaster Writing: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe in Latin America (2011).
kathya araujo (PhD in American studies) is professor at the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile. Her main research fields are individuation processes and their relationship with norms. Her most recent books are Habitar lo social: Usos y abusos en la vida cotidiana en el Chile actual (2009), Dignos de su arte: Sujeto y lazo social en el Perú de las primeras décadas del siglo XX (2009), and Desafíos comunes: La sociedad chilena y sus individuos (2012, with Danilo Martuccelli). She has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
luiz carlos bresser-pereira is emeritus professor of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. He was finance minister (1987) and minister of federal administration (1995–1998) of Brazil. His books include The Theory of Inertial Inflation: The Foundation of Economic Reform in Brazil and Argentina (1987), Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach (1993, with Adam Przeworski and José María Maravall), Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican States (2004), and Globalization and Competition: Why Some Emergent Countries Succeed While Others Fall Behind (2010).
jason dyck (PhD 2012, University of Toronto) is an assistant professor of history at Trent University Durham, Oshawa, Canada. His research focuses on colonial religion, missionary work, and the craft of sacred history in Spanish America during the baroque period. He is currently completing a transcription of and scholarly introduction to the third volume of Francisco de Florencia’s chronicle of the Jesuit province of New Spain.
fabián echegaray’s (PhD in political science, University of Connecticut) main areas of research relate to political participation, public opinion, and sustainability issues. His work has appeared in International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Ambiente & Sociedade, Opinião Pública, Desarrollo Económico, and Journal of Cleaner Production, among others. He is the author of Economic Crises and Electoral Responses in Latin America (2005). Since 2000, he has been managing director of Market Analysis, a market and opinion research agency based in Brazil. [End Page 279]
patricia fortuny loret de mola received a PhD in social anthropology from University College London in 1995. She has been a full-time researcher at the Center of Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) since 1988, first in Occidente, in Guadalajara, Mexico, and since 2002 at CIESAS Peninsular in Mérida, Mexico. She has published two books on religious minorities from Mexico and coordinated one on religious affiliation and modern values in Guadalajara. She has written numerous articles and chapters in Spanish and English on religion conversion; migration and churches; gender, power, and space; and other related topics.
jaymie patricia heilman is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980 (2010) and is currently working on a life history of the Peruvian indigenous activist Manuel Llamojha Mitma. Her work focuses on rural politics, racism, and twentieth-century Peru.
maarten e. r. g. n. jansen is professor of the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. His research and teaching concern the heritage of indigenous peoples in the Americas. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books on Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts and related visual art as well as on colonial documents in the Mixtec language...
