Notes on Contributors~Sobre los colaboradores
- Notes on Contributors~Sobre los colaboradores
Benjamin W. Barrett completed his undergraduate degree at Bucknell University, and then attended the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he received a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology. Benjamin now works as a biostatistician for the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, a prospective cohort study examining HIV-1 infection among homosexual and bisexual men.
Miroslava Chávez-García is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and holds affiliations in the Departments of Chicana/o Studies and Feminist Studies. She is author of Negotiating Conquest: Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (2004) and States of Delinquency: Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System (2012). Her most recent book, Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2018), is a history of migration, courtship, and identity as told through more than 300 personal letters exchanged across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Her essay, "Migrant Longing, Courtship, and Gendered Identity in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands," Western History Quarterly (Summer 2016), received the Judith Lee Ridge prize from the Western Association of Women's Historians and the Bolton-Cutter Award from the Western History Association.
T. Elizabeth Durden is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. A former Fulbright Fellow, she has published articles in International Migration Review, Journal of Latin American Geography, Social Science and Medicine, Migration Studies as well as the Journal of American Ethnic History. Her current research explores state level immigration policies in the United States and is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios es profesor de Sociología en la Unidad Académica Multidisciplinaria de Ciencias, Educación y Humanidades (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, México) y [End Page 262] miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (Nivel 3). Su área de especialización es los estudios migratorios. Algunas de sus últimas publicaciones son: "Prostitución de menores en locales registrados en México", Revista Internacional de Sociología, 76(1), (2018); "Los empleadores estadounidenses y la migración irregular", CienciaUAT, 12(2), (2018); "Migrantes centroamericanas transportadas por redes de tráfico sexual", Fontamara (2018); "Trafficking in US agriculture", Antipode, 49(5), (2017); and "Prostitution and Migrant Smuggling Networks Operating between Central America, Mexico, and the United States", Latin American Perspectives 44(6).
Eric C. Jones is Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. His research generally is about how and when people work together, particularly when economic and cultural differences exist, and often involves social network analysis. He has conducted research in Mexico, Ecuador and the U.S. on floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, a fire, and a mine spill, and also does comparative disaster research using primary and secondary data. This research has led him to co-edit the books The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters and Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery and Adaptation.
Julieta Leo es Profesora-Investigadora del Departamento de Humanidades en la Universidad de Monterrey. Algunos de sus materiales publicados son: "Las historias de García Márquez; su vinculación con los patrones simbólicos y el cambio en la percepción de la realidad a través del contenido metafórico de los relatos", Anales de la literatura hispanoamericana (2016); "Interpretation: New Focus within Literary Research", The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (2017); y Las sagradas letras de Paradiso: Estudio sobre el hermetismo de José Lezama Lima (2013).
Diana Luque is Professor and researcher of Regional Development at el Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Hermosillo, Sonora. Dr. Luque is national coordinator of the Biocultural Heritage of Mexico Network sponsored by CONACYT. She leads the interdisciplinary research group "Territory and Natural Resources in Indigenous Communities of Sonora." Her primary focus of research is political ecology, sustainable development, and biocultural diversity, particularly as they pertain to food production, water, and the promotion of human rights of Indigenous communities. She is the co-author of Naturalezas, saberes y [End Page 263] territorios comcáac (seri): Diversidad cultural y sustentabilidad ambiental and Complejos bioculturales...
