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Chad Black is Associate Professor of Latin American History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Corrie Boudreaux is a lecturer in the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at El Paso and an independent photojournalist in the El Paso – Ciudad Juárez region. She wrote a dissertation on a photography-based analysis of the relationship between spatial production and violence in Ciudad Juárez and has published in Social Research (2016) and H-ART Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte (forthcoming). She often employs photojournalism as a methodology in her academic research in areas such as insecurity and violence, spatial environments, the photography of violence and trauma, and memorialization practices.
Luis Torres is an award-winning photojournalist at El Heraldo de Juárez in Ciudad Juárez and a contract photojournalist for Agencia Efe in the El Paso – Ciudad Juárez – Chihuahua region. He has covered drug trafficking, femicide, immigration, and violence on the border for over 30 years for news organizations such as El Diario de Juárez, Excelsior, and El Fronterizo, and has collaborated as a fixer and field producer for numerous international news and documentary teams such as HBO.
Mila Burns is a Brazilian journalist, anthropologist, and historian. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at Lehman College (CUNY), and the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). Her current research focuses on the Brazilian influence on the 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
Ann González is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte. She was Chair of the Department of Languages and Culture Studies from 2015 to 2019, and has taught all levels of Spanish for the department since 1990. Her area of expertise is Latin American literature, specifically children's literature. Her latest book is: Postcolonial Approaches to Latin American Children's Literature, published in 2018 by Routledge.
Suzanne Marie Litrel serves as a 2019–2020 Reading Group advisor for Georgia State University's Humanities Inclusivity Program. A World History Association Council member (2020–2023), she is a contributing author to ABC-CLIO's forthcoming Women Who Changed the World, has served as guest editor for a special edition of the refereed World History Bulletin, "The World from Latin America" (Fall 2017), and has presented and published on Braudel's years in Brazil. A former high school teacher, her Jackie Tempo YA historical fiction series has been endorsed by the New York State Council for Social Studies and is in use in World History classes. Suzanne is a returned graduate student with a background in Economics and Chinese Studies (B.A., M.A. University of Michigan). She defended her dissertation "Negotiating Dutch Brazil: Portuguese Atlantic Vassals, Rebels, and "'Wild Nations of People'" in November 2019. [End Page 5]
Angela Rodriguez Mooney is PhD candidate at the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Tulane University. She is currently working on her dissertation called "Displacements in Contemporary Brazilian Women's Writing and Filmmaking." In this work she analyzes how new narratives confront essencialized representations of identity of women often made by mass media and the cannon in Brazil. Besides working on her dissertation, she also teaches Spanish at Texas Woman's University.
Linda E. Moran is Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for the Spanish Department in a tertiary institution, Freed-Hardeman University, in Henderson, Tennessee. She holds the BA and MA in Spanish from the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas, and the Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, UK.
Carolina Helena Timóteo de Oliveira completed her undergraduate degree in English at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, where she developed research on critical literacy in English language textbooks. She earned her master's degree in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. At UNC Charlotte, Carolina taught Portuguese and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture courses. In addition, Carolina participated in ethnographic research on social and racial dynamics in a gentrifying community in Charlotte, North Carolina...