Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau is AssociateProfessor of German and Comparative Literatureat UNC Charlotte. She is currently conducting research for a book length study comparing the German immigration experiencethrough the lens of fictionin the Americas.She is currently focusingon German immigrantsin Brazil. Scott Baker received his MS from the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is a PhD Candidate in the Schoolof InternationalRelationsat University of St.Andrews in Scotland. His dissertationfocuses on oil and conflict in Africa. Dr. Kirk Bowman is an Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of InternationalAffairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of Militarization, Democracy, and Development:The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America (PennsylvaniaStateUniversity Press, 2002). He has received research support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation,the Ford Foundation, the SocialScienceResearch Council,among others, and was a FulbrightScholar. Ken Mitchell is an assistant professor of political science at Monmouth University (NJ).He is the author of State-Society Relations in Mexico (2001), an examinationof the politics of neoliberal reform in the Mexican socialsector duringthe1990s.HisotherpublishedresearchappearsinOxford Development Studies (ODS)and Journal of Latin American Urban Studies (JLAUS). Aman Rosales Rodriguez (Dr.Phil., Dortmund University)is Professor at the Department of Spanish and IberoamericanLiterature, Institute of Romance Philology of the University Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan (Poland).He is interested in the philosophy of culture in Latin American context,and in the philosophical content of the Latin American essay. ...