Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
jeremy adelman was educated at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics (1985) and completed a doctorate in modern history at Oxford University (1989). He is the author or editor of ten books, including Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (2013). He has received fellowships from the British Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, as well as the American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship. Currently he is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and director of the Global History Lab at Princeton University.
danilo antonio contreras is a postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. His research examines the effects of institutional and structural constraints on ethnoracial politics in Afro-Latin America. He received his PhD from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
yasna cortés es magister en ciencia regional por la Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile). Actualmente, es candidata al grado doctoral en economía por la Universidad de Verona (Italia) e investigadora asociada al Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional (IDEAR) de la Universidad Católica del Norte. Sus áreas de investigación están relacionadas al análisis de la desigualdad espacial de ingresos, con énfasis en la desigualdad de ingresos municipales, y en cómo las políticas públicas y las organizaciones subnacionales pueden afectar la desigualdad de ingresos.
jennifer a. devine is an assistant professor of political geography at Texas State University, San Marcos. She is a specialist in the fields of Latin American politics, human-environmental change, and critical race, gender, and feminist theories. She earned a PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2013. Her current research focuses on the environmental impacts of drug trafficking in northern Guatemala and community forestry as a strategy for improving regional security. She has published articles in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and Antipode, and she is currently working on a special edition of Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
irina dzero is assistant professor of Spanish at Kent State University. She studies the conflicting attitudes toward the recent democratic transition in Chile, Mexico, and Peru in cinematic adaptations of recent and classic fiction. Her other area of study is violence against women in Latin America.
margarita fajardo studied history and economics at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and obtained her master’s and PhD in history at Princeton University in 2011 and 2015, respectively. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “The Emergence of Latin America: Social Scientists, Development, and the Global Political Economy, 1929–1978.” [End Page 255]
juliana luna freire is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Framingham State University. Her research focuses on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian cultural studies and literature. She received her PhD from the University of Arizona and has published articles on Latin American literature, Spanish film studies, minority groups and media representation, and language pedagogy.
rachel godfrey-wood is a PhD student in development studies at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on patterns of rural change, local understandings of well-being, the development of regional markets, and political organizations in the Bolivian Altiplano. She also works as a consultant for the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED), where she specializes in issues relating to climate change and social protection policies.
peter hays gries (PhD 1999, University of California, Berkeley) is the Harold J. and Ruth Newman Chair and director of the Institute for US-China Issues, and professor of international studies at the University of Oklahoma. He studies the political psychology of international affairs, with a focus on Chinese and American foreign policy. His most recent book is The Politics of American Foreign Policy: How Ideology Divides Liberals and Conservatives over Foreign Affairs (Stanford, 2014).
merilee s. grindle is emerita Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. From 2006 to 2014, she was director of the David Rockefeller Center...
