Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Silvia Borzutzky is Teaching Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University. She has written extensively on social security and health policies in Chile, as well as Chilean politics. She is the author of Vital Connections: Politics, Social Security and Inequality in Chile (Notre Dame University Press, 2002) and co-editor of After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Capitalism and Democracy (University Press of Florida, 2006), and The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post-Pinochet Chile (University of Florida Press, Forthcoming 2010). She is also the author of more than 40 articles dealing with Chilean politics, social security, social assistance and health policies, as well as Latin American politics and international relations. Her current research deals with the socioeconomic effects of globalization on social policies, poverty and women. Jeremy Cass is an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University, where he has taught Spanish and Latin American studies since 2004. He teaches Spanish language and SpanishAmerican literature courses at all levels. His research focuses on literary treatments of race and ethnicity in Latin American literature, in particular the Hispanic Caribbean. Recent scholarship and seminars have focused on the Caribbean sugar plantation. Cass’s work has appeared in such journals as Latin American Theatre Review, La Torre, and Latin American Literary Review (forthcoming). He is currently working on two projects: the first explores the confluence of literary and social scientific interpretations of race in the Cuban Republic (1902-1959); the second compiles a series of studies on race and subversion in novel and film from the Hispanic Caribbean. Kenneth Kickham is an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Central Oklahoma. His teaching and research interests focus on public administration and social policy, particularly welfare reform and related issues. He spent several years in state government as a program evaluator, and recently served as president of the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics. William Yaworsky (Ph.D. University of Oklahoma, 2002) is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in social organization and political violence in Latin America. He has done fieldwork and survey research in the Mexican state of Guerrero since 1998. His most recent articles appeared in the Journal of Anthropological Research; Journal of Strategic Studies; Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement; Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos; and Small Wars and Insurgencies. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Brownsville. C  2009 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 The Latin Americanist, December 2009 Breanna Zwart has a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently working for the City of San Diego as the Budget and Finance Committee Consultant. She is the recipient of the 2006 Vira I. Heinz Study Abroad Scholarship, which allowed her to travel to Bolivia to study the Constitutional Assembly and the drafting to the new Bolivian Constitution. 2 ...