Contributors
- Contributors
Avivi, Yamil is a doctoral candidate in the American Culture Program at the University of Michigan, currently working on his dissertation, entitled “Reading Latino/a Youth Subcultures in Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1980s-1990s.” A member of the Latino/a Studies Graduate Certificate Program, he is interested in critically analyzing dominant narratives of Latinos/as in the U.S. and formulating alternative ones that consider queer subjectivities, multiplicity, subculture, and counterhegemonic groupings. He is a second generation Colombian-American, born and partially raised in Elizabeth, NJ.
Bhaumik, Munia is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Emory University where she is also affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Studies in Sexuality Program. She received her M.A. from UCLA, and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. She has been a Fellow of the Melville Society and of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at Berkeley. Currently, she is a fellow at the Cornell Society for the Humanities and working on a book entitled Democracy and Dramatic Form: The Figure of the Non-Citizen in the Nineteenth-Century Americas.
Borges, Sandibel is a Ph.D. candidate in Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her research examines the experiences of Latina queer migrant women in Southern California, as well as returning queer Latina migrants in Mexico. She studies their processes of creating different homes as a means of survival, and the ways in which they navigate the sense of belonging.
Camus, Manuela, doctora en antropología social por el Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Sociales en Antropología Social de Guadalajara, México, es actualmente profesora investigadora en el Centro de Estudios de Género de la Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Durante 20 años trabajó en Guatemala en temas de sobrevivencia de los sectores populares de la ciudad capital, sobre el movimiento político maya, y sobre el impacto de la migración internacional en el departamento de Huehuetenango. Entre los artículos publicados, “Fronteras, comunidad y violencias” (Desacatos 38, 2012); “Mujeres de coto en Guadalajara, Jalisco: distinción neocolonial y simplificación social” (Revista Amerika. Mémoires, identités, territoires 9, 2013); y “La acción política de las viudas de pilotos en la ciudad de Guatemala” (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 97, 2014).
Castellanos, M. Bianet teaches American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her publications include Return to Servitude: Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún (University of Minnesota Press, 2010), and Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach (with Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera and Arturo Aldama, University of Arizona, 2012).
Cheng, Cindy I-Fen is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War was published by NYU Press in 2013 (and selected by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association for the 2013-14 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction). She is currently editing The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies, forthcoming in 2015, and researching a new book project on race, urban poverty, and the growth of California’s skid rows.
Cosentino, Delia is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at DePaul University. She earned her PhD at UCLA, and specializes in visual culture of a Greater Mexico, including Aztec manuscripts, Spanish colonial art into the American Southwest, and the transformation of Mexico City over time. She is the author of Las joyas de Zinacantepec: arte colonial en el monasterio de San Miguel (Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, Mexico (2003, 2007). Recognizing the political imperative behind claims to space, Cosentino recently published an article on Mexican maps in the international journal of cartography, Imago Mundi, and is currently extending that effort into a project about pictorial mapping in colonial and post-revolutionary Mexico. [End Page 197]
Dahms, Betsy obtained her B.A. in Spanish from Centre College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies with a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies from the University of Kentucky. Dahms is a Spanish professor at the University of West Georgia who teaches Latin American and...
