Contributors

Contributors/Abstracts1 CONTRIBUTORS John Bersiu is Special Assistant to the President for Global Perspectives , Director of the Global Perspectives Office, and University Professor at the University of Central Florida. A Pulitzer Prize-winning(2000)educatorandjournalist, Bersia is the author of World War 4: ConfrontingTerrorism(2003). Luigi Munzetti is Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Privatization SouthAmerican Style (Oxford University Press, 1999) and more recently has published on the issue of accountabilityand market reforms in emergingmarkets (WorldPolitics,2003). Anu Claudia Marques is Professor of the Departmentof Anthropology of Universidadede SiloPaulo(USP).Shehaspublishedthe books Andarilhos e Cangaceiros (1999) and Intrigas e Questks. Tramas Sociais no Sertiiode Pernambuco (2002), besides several ethnographicarticles on Pernambuco backlands society. Jorge Muttar Villeluis professor of the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidade Federal de Silo Carlos (UFSCAR). He has published the books Andarilhose Cangaceiros (1999) and 0 Povo em Armas. ViolCncia e Politica no Sertilo de Pernambuco, besides severalarticleson Pernambucobacklands society. Stephen D. Morris is Directorof InternationalStudiesand Professor of Political Science at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of Corruption and Politics in ContemporaryMexico (1991),PoliticalReformism in Mexico(1993, and Gringolandia: Mexican Identity and Perceptionsof the U.S. (2005). Amy Risky received her Ph.D. in governmentfrom the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and is currentlyAssistantProfessor of InternationalStudies at Rhodes College. Her areas of specialization are comparative and Latin American politics; her research interests include civil society, activism, gender, and democratization in Latin America. Alejandro Salas joined Transparency International Americas Department as a Program Officer in September2002, and is currently serving as the Acting Directorof that department.He lived in Peru from 1998to 2002. where he worked as a researcher and 2 The Latin Americanist Spring 2006 consultant at the Instituto Apoyo, a Peruvian think t a n k specializing in institutional reforms and governance issues. Earlier, from 1993to 1996,Salas worked in various areas of the Mexican public sector, includingthe Secretaryof Social Developmentand the Senateof the Republic. He holds a degree in Political Science from the Universidad Iberoamericanain Mexico and a master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from the Institute of SocialStudiesin The Hague,Netherlands. Juan Antonio Serna is the Director of the Center for Latino Outreach Program at Georgia SouthernUniversity.A native of Monterrey , NuevoLe6n, MCxico, Dr. Sernareceived his Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies from Arizona StateUniversity. He servedas a FulbrightScholarat New College of the University of South Florida in Sarasota, Florida from January to May, 1989. His dissertation El subalterno en la escrituramasculina de 10snoventa: la novela de Nuevo Le6n was published Andamios (1999). Widely published, Serna specializes in Contemporq Latin American Literature and Film, Popular Culture,and Women’sStudies. Bruno WilhelmSpeck teachespoliticalscienceat the StateUniversity of Campinas,Brazil and is a Senior Consultanton Anti-Corruption Policies in Latin America for Transparency International, Berlin. He has served as a research fellow at the Max Planck institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Friburg, Germany, visiting professor at the Freie Universitat Berlin, and Director of Research for Transparencia Brasil. He has been conductingresearch on corruptioncontrol since 1995. Carole J. WilsonisAssistantProfessorof PoliticalScienceat University of Texas at Dallas. Her interestsincludethe study of comparative political behavior and the study of comparative political parties. She has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Polirical Studies. Bruce Dean Willis is Associate Professor of Spanish at The University of Tulsaand authorof Aestheticsof Equilibrium:TheVanguard Poeticsof VicenteHuidobroand Mhio deAndrade (Purdue UP, 2006). His current research focuses on representationsof the body in early twentieth-centuryBrazilian and SpanishAmerican literature. ...