Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Steve Barracca is Associate Professor of Political Science at Eastern Kentucky University. He teaches courses in comparative politics and political philosophy. His research focuses on democratization, with a particular interest in civil-military relations, decentralization and federalism. He is the author of “Gubernatorial Politics and the Evolution toward Democratic Federalism in Mexico,” Regional and Federal Studies, 17:2, June 2007, and “Military Coups in the Post-Cold War Era: Pakistan, Ecuador, and Venezuela,” Third World Quarterly, 28:1, 2007. Jorge Fleury a professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and a research member of the Urban Study Laboratory (LEU-PROURBFAU -UFRJ). Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism in the University of Amazonia in 2002, concluded the master in Amazon Social History in 2009 in the Federal University of Pará and in 2014 concluded the Phd in the Pós-graduate Program in Urbanism in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PROURB-UFRJ). Nick Henck is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo’s Keio University. In 2007, he published the first (and to date only) Englishlanguage biography of the Zapatista spokesman and military leader, subcomandante Marcos, entitled Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask (Duke University Press). He has since published journal articles in Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies (2009 & 2013), A Contracorriente (2011), and the Asian Journal of Latin American Studies (2012), dealing with various aspects related to the Subcommander, but predominantly Marcos’s intellectual formation and his attitude toward, and relationship with, intellectuals. Matthew L Howell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Eastern Kentucky University. He teaches program evaluation, public policy, state and local government, and urban politics. His research is on local government fragmentation, metropolitan governance, and social networks among government officials, and also on interesting theoretical or methodological projects. His most recent publication is “The Logic of Urban Fragmentation: Organisational Ecology and the Proliferation of American Cities,” which appears in Urban Studies 51:5, April 2014. Joaquı́n Lahsen received his Licentiate and Master degrees in Chemistry from the University of Chile and his PhD in Chemistry (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he worked on quantum C  2014 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 The Latin Americanist, June 2014 chemistry and computational drug design. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in engineering at the Catholic University of Chile and an adjunct professor (2004–2007). Dr. Lahsen also received his Master in Humanities from the University Adolfo Ibáñez (Santiago, Chile), where he is currently completing his Master in Comparative Literature. He can be contacted at joaquinlahsen@hotmail.com Shigeko Mato received her Ph.D in Spanish American literature from the University of New Mexico. She is Associate Porfessor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Spanish Language at School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. Her articles on contemporary Japanese Peruvian literature and Mexican literature have appeared in Hispano ́fila, Confluencia, and other journals. She is also the author of Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation: Desire and Limits for Intellectuals in TwentiethCentury Mexican Fiction (2010). Rachel Reis Mourao (M.A., The University of Florida) is a second-year PhD student in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of interest include political communication, international communication, new media, and Latin American Studies. Reis Mourao received her M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida in 2012, where she specialized in international communication. Sarah Osten is an assistant professor of history at the University of Vermont . She specializes in modern Mexican political history, with a particular focus on campaigns and elections, political violence and peace processes, the formulation of citizenship and rights regimes, and relationships between the government and opposition movements. Her current and planned future research explores the ramifications of political violence in twentieth century Mexico. She holds a PhD in history and a MA in Latin American studies from the University of Chicago. Dr. Marı́a Alejandra Zanetta is a Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at The University of Akron. Dr. Zanetta is the author of La pintura y la prosa de Santiago Rusiñol (Universidad de Valladolid, 1997...