Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
cristina adams is an assistant professor at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities and the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Complex Systems at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has a master’s degree in environmental science and a PhD in ecology, both from the University of São Paulo. She was a guest researcher at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, in 2011, and at the Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, Hohenheim University, in 2012. Her main research interests are the adaptability of peasant populations to neotropical rain forests, tropical agroforestry systems, and shifting cultivation.
felipe curcó cobos received a PhD from Barcelona University, Catalonia, Spain, and served as associate professor from 2005 to 2007. Currently he is a full-time professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM). Curcó is specialized in the area of philosophy and political theory. His books and articles focus on the analysis of constitutionalism, institutions and liberal democracies, and the problems of insecurity in Mexico.
susan eckstein is past director of Latin American studies and professor of international relations and sociology at Boston University. She has written extensively on Mexico, Cuba, and Bolivia, as well as on immigration and its impact across country borders. Her book The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the U.S. and Their Homeland (2009) received the Award for Best 2009 Book on Race, Ethnicity, Political Participation and Public Opinion from the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP), and the American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Award for Best Book in 2011. She also authored the prize-winning Back from the Future: Cuba under Castro (1994) and The Poverty of Revolution: The State and Urban Poor in Mexico (1988). In addition, Eckstein edited Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements (1989) and coedited books on social justice and social rights with Timothy Wickham-Crowley, and on immigrant impacts in their homelands with Adil Najam. She also is coeditor of a 2015 double issue of Diaspora that focuses on generational differences within diasporas. Eckstein has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for World Order, a Mellon-MIT grant, the Ford Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation.
célia futemma is a research scientist and professor at the Center for Research and Studies on Environment (NEPAM) at the University of Campinas in Brazil. She received her MA in cultural anthropology from Tulane University and her PhD from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. She conducts research in the Amazon and the Atlantic rain forests. Her research interests include environmental anthropology, people and parks, institutional analysis and common-pool resources, and land use and land-cover dynamics. [End Page 223]
sytske f. groenewald did her PhD studies at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her research was focused on livelihood strategies of small-scale maize producers in Veracruz, Mexico, under NAFTA, emphasizing the significant role of farmer organizations in their adaptation process. Currently she works as impact measurement lead for Oxfam Novib in the Netherlands.
josé itzigsohn is professor of sociology at Brown University. His work focuses on immigration, group and identity formation, and the economic strategies of those who are marginalized from the formal labor market. He is currently writing a book about Argentina’s recuperated enterprises.
simón pedro izcara palacios is professor of rural sociology at the Department of Sociology (UAMCEH), Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico, and is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (SNI II). He specializes in rural and immigration studies. His recent publications include “La contracción de las redes de contrabando de migrantes en México” (Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2014), “El oficio de agente facilitador del cruce fronterizo” (Papeles de Población, 2014), and “La demanda de trabajadores huéspedes en la agricultura estadounidense” (Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural, 2014).
duncan lawrence is the executive...
