Contributors
- Contributors
Abarca, Meredith E. is Associate Professor of Chicana/o Literature at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of Voices in the Kitchen (2006) and co-editor with Nieves Pascual Soler of Rethinking Chicana/o Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites (2013).
Bustos, Juan Pablo studied in Spain and China, and graduated in 2011 with a B.A. in Spanish and Chinese from Whittier College. He is currently completing a master’s degree in Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research interests include: 20th Century Spanish literature, the history and culture of soccer in Spain, social interconnections between Latin America and Asia, and the formation of identity in literary studies.
Chabrán, Rafael, Professor Emeritus, Whittier College, is co-editor of The Latino Encyclopedia (Marshall Cavendish), a six-volume set on U.S. Latino history and culture, and one of the principal contributors and editors of Searching for The Secrets of Nature: The Life and Works of Dr. Francisco Hernández (Stanford, 2000), and The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández (Stanford 2000), a two volume study of the 16th century Spanish doctor, the earliest European to study Aztec medicinal plants. Chabrán has also published articles on the life and works of Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish anarchists in New York City, the French Mexican physician and zoologist, Alfredo Dugès, and on the theme of war in Puerto Rican Literature.
Chabrán Echternacht, Gabriel is an Admissions Officer at Whittier College, and candidate for the M.A. in Educational Leadership at Azusa Pacific University. He is a graduate of Whittier College where he studied sociology and communications.
Collins-Dogrul, Julie is Associate Professor of Sociology at Whittier College, a Liberal Arts College in Los Angeles, California. She received her B.A. in International Relations and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Her research on the organization and politics of public health cooperation on the U.S.-Mexico border is published in the journals Social Science and Medicine, Global Networks, Organization Studies, and the Journal of Borderlands Studies. She is currently working on a study of Latinas and breast cancer mortality. Collins-Dogrul teaches migration, health and medicine, transnational and global social problems, and research methods.
Cota Guzmán, Hilda Irene, doctora en Sociología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana y maestra en Ciencias Políticas, UNAM. Adscrita a la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, sus temas de investigación incluyen la seguridad alimentaria, justicialidad del derecho a la alimentación, etnicidad y multiculturalidad en la conceptualización, metodología y técnicas de investigación de la cocina mexicana. Publicó XV años de la Central de Abasto de la Ciudad de México: Un mercado para alimentar a 20 millones de habitantes (CEDA, México, 1997), y Guía metodológica para producir explicaciones (Dos Líneas, México, 2012) y es co-autora de Recetario Conmemorativo (CONACULTA, México, 2010).
Dávila, Carmen Alicia, doctora en Historia del Arte, es Profesora catedrática de la Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, adscrita al Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México. Ha publicado entre otros libros: Una ciudad conventual, Valladolid de Michoacán en el siglo XVII (Morelia, H. Ayuntamiento de Morelia/Secretaría de Cultura de Michoacán/Universidad Michoacana/Morevallado Editores, 2010), Los carmelitas descalzos en Valladolid de Michoacán, siglo XVII (Morelia, Secretaría de Michoacán; ediciones 1999, 2002, 2010), y con María del Rosario Rodríguez, La independencia de México, Conflictos militares, procesos políticos y manifestaciones artísticas (Morelia, CONACULTA/SECUM, SUMA/H. Ayuntamiento de Morelia/UMSNH, 2012).
Del Águila, Rocío received her doctorate in Hispanic Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, and her B.A. in Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Having taught at UT Austin and the University of Calgary, she is currently an Academic Lecturer at Wichita State University. Her research interests include 19th century literature, postcolonial subjectivities, [End Page 185] women writers and gender issues, and food studies. She has...
