Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Scott H. Beck is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. He has conducted research in Ecuador for more than a decade on the indigenous movement and its role in civil society and politics. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship and university-sponsored grants for part of that field research. Professor Beck has jointly published a number of articles with Kenneth J. Mijeski on the Ecuadorian indigenous movement, including essays in The Latin American Research Review, The Latin Americanist, Ecuadorian Studies/Estudios Ecuatorianos, the SECOLAS Annals, and Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies. Bridget Chesterton is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Buffalo State College. She received a PhD in History from SUNY Stony Brook. Her current research is focused on the social and cultural history of Paraguay during the early part of the 20th century. Dr. Alain Lawo-Sukam is a native of Cameroon where he received his BA and Masters in Hispanic Literature and Culture. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D in Hispanic Studies . He is an Assistant Professor in Hispanic and Africana Studies at Texas A & M University. His Area of Specialization and Interest are Latin American Literatures and Cultures; Afro-Latin American & Hispano-African Literatures and Cultures; Afro-French Literature and Culture. Post-colonial, Cultural Studies and Ecocriticism. He is the author of several articles published in peer reviewed journals such as Revista Iberoamericana, Revista Hispánica de Literatura y Cultura, INT: Revista de Literatura Hispánica and Revista de Estudios Colombianos. As a poet, he has published collections of poetry in the Afro-Hispanic Review and El collar de la paloma. Kenneth J. Mijeski is Professor in the Department of Political Science at East Tennessee State University. Along with Scott H. Beck, he has been engaged in research on Ecuador’s indigenous political movement. He and Beck have co-authored numerous papers and journal articles on the politics of the Pachakutik political movement. Professor Mijeski has previously conducted research in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. His previous publications include Politics and Public Policy in Latin America (with Steven W. Hughes) and an edited volume, The Nicaraguan Constitution of 1987. Jane M. Rausch specializes in Colombian History and the study of comparative frontiers. She joined the History Department at the University Massachusetts Amherst in 1969 where she has taught Latin American history up to the present. She is the author or editor of nine books including From Frontier Town to Metropolis: A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842 (2007). C  2008 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 ...