Contributors
- Contributors
Carlos de la Torre is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kentucky and Emeritus Professor at FLACSO–Ecuador. He has been a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism (2018), Populismos: Una inmersión rápida (2017), De Velasco a Correa: insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador (2015), The Promise and Perils of Populism (2015), Latin American Populism of the Twenty First Century, co-edited with Cynthia Arnson (2013), and Populist Seduction in Latin America, (2nd ed., 2010).
Rebecca Earle teaches history at the University of Warwick. Her earlier work investigated aspects of Spanish American cultural and political history, and particularly the nature of identity, memory and embodiment. Lately she has developed a particular interest in the cultural significance of food and eating. She is currently writing a history of the potato, which uses the emergence of the potato as an Enlightenment super-food to explore the connections between everyday life and new ideas of individualism, political economy and the state.
Juan O. Mesquida is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Asia and the Pacific in Manila. His research on the history of the Brotherhood of Mercy of Manila has been published as chapters of multiauthor volumes (Faith's Boundaries. Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities; Into the Frontier. Studies on Colonial Spanish Philippines; History of Medicine in the Philippines) and journal articles (Revista de Cultura, Synergeia). He has also published an article on chaplaincy endowments in seventeenth-century Manila in Revista de Indias.
Robert C. Schwaller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Kansas. His book Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico: Defining Racial Difference (2016) compares the development of racial categories and ideologies in early colonial Mexico with the lived experiences of mestizos and mulattos. He also co-edited, with Jana L. Byars, The History of the New World: Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo (2017), an abridged and annotated translation of Girolamo Benzoni's 1556 account of the New World. His other publications include articles in the Journal of Social History, Colonial Latin American Review, and Ethnohistory. He currently serves as the Colonial Latin America and Caribbean Section Editor for History Compass and associate editor of Ethnohistory. [End Page 607]
Colin M. Snider is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas–Tyler and book review editor for The Latin Americanist. He specializes in social movements, military regimes, state-society relations, and human rights and memory in Latin America. He has published chapters in The Third World in the Global 1960s (2012) and Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in the Americas before Vatican II (2016), as well as articles in the Latin American Research Review, The Latin Americanist, and Foreign Policy. [End Page 608]
