Contributors
- Contributors
Mariana L. R. Dantas is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University and specializes in the history of slavery in the Atlantic World and of the African Díaspora. She is the author of Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (2008), a comparative analysis of enslaved and free blacks as agents of urbanization in the Americas. She has published articles in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Colonial Latin American Historical Review, Journal of Family History, and African Economic History. She has also produced several book chapters on the topic of slave and free African-descendants in eighteenth-century Brazil and the United States. Her current research on multiracial families explores African-descendants’ experience of social mobility in Brazil from a generational perspective.
Lori Boornazian Diel is Associate Professor of Art History at Texas Christian University, where she teaches courses on pre-Columbian and colonial Latin American art. Her research focuses on Aztec pictorial histories, and her book The Tira de Tepechpan: Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule (2008) considered the micro-patriotic focus of this Aztec manuscript. She is currently working on a book that contextualizes and explains the early colonial Codex Mexicanus.
Nathanial Gardner is Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow. He is the author and editor of several books, among them Through Their Eyes: Marginality in the Works of Elena Poniatowska, Silvia Molina, and Rosa Nissan, and a monographic edition on Mexican myth and identity published by the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. He is writing a book on text and image in contemporary Mexico in addition to co-editing a volume on violence in that nation.
Leo J. Garofalo is Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College. His publications include Mas allá de la dominación y la resistencia and Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550–1812. His research is on the social history of the early and mid-colonial Andes and the less well-known Díasporas linking Europe, Africa, Americas, and Asia. He is currently working on a book, “Forging a Place in the Spanish Empire: Black European Sailors, Soldiers, and Traders to the Americas.”
Adrian Pearce is a historian of Latin America, primarily of the Spanish colonies in the Atlantic World and the native peoples of the Andes. His first two books were British Trade with Spanish America, 1763–1808 (2007), of which a revised [End Page vi] Spanish language edition is currently forthcoming in Mexico, and The Origins of Bourbon Reform in Spanish South America, 1700–1763 (2014). He has also edited several collections of essays, including (with Paul Heggarty) History and Language in the Andes (2011). His current research is concerned with the phenomenon of “reindigenization” in the nineteenth-century Andes (mainly Peru and Bolivia), understood in political, economic, and cultural terms. From 2013 to 2016 he taught in the Center for Historical Studies at the Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. Since September 2016, he has been Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American History in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, & Latin American Studies at University College London.
Pablo Piccato (B.A. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1989; Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1997) is professor at the Department of History, Columbia University. His research and teaching focus on modern Mexico, particularly on crime, politics, and culture. His work includes City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931 (2001), Actores, espacios y debates en la historia de la esfera pública en la ciudad de México (2005, coedited with Cristina Sacristán), True Stories of Crime in Modern México (2009, coedited with Robert Buffington), The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Mexican Public Spherre (2010). Among his articles he has published in Social History 35:2 (2010): “Public Sphere in Latin America: A Map of the Historiography.” and, in Past and Present 223:1 (2014), “Murders of Nota Roja: Truth and Justice in Mexican Crime News.” [End Page vii]
