Contributors Page
- Contributors Page
Susan Brewer-Osorio is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona. Her discipline is political science, and her research looks at contentious politics, conflict, and peacebuilding in the Andean region of Latin America. The manuscript is part of her research on social movements and politics in Bolivia.
James Chaney is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Global Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. His research focuses on immigration and refugee resettlement in the American South.
Laura Clark is the Director of the Center for Educational Media at Middle Tennessee State University
Javier Cikota is an Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College, a small liberal arts college in Maine. His research centers on how states establish legitimacy in frontier spaces, incorporating issues of legal literacy, gender dynamics, and nationalism to social and political history. He received his B.A. (History and Latin American Studies) from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of California, Berkeley. His current book project, Frontier Justice, investigates how European settlers and indigenous peoples in Patagonia learned to use the institutions and agents of the Argentine state for their own ends. It traces the development of a selfconscious civil society (centered on a municipal identity of "vecinos") which was rooted in local alliances, and was able to project power by mobilizing those alliances in order to restraint the semi-colonial state institutions.
Cristián Doña-Reveco has a PhD in Sociology and History from Michigan State University, a MA in Political Sciences and International Relations from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Office for Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He also is an associated researcher with the Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales at Universidad Diego Portales and adjunct researcher of the Centro de Estudios para el Conflicto y la Cohesión Social (COES Chile). His research interests are on migration decisions, migration policy in the Southern Cone of America (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay), and the relations between the nation-state and its emigrants. He teaches courses on international migration and on Latin American Sociology.
