Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
- Colaboradores • Contributors • Collaborateurs
Mary Louise Babineau <maryloub@stu.ca> has a Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Dr. Babineau is an Associate Professor of Spanish at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in Canada. She teaches courses in Spanish language, Latin American literature, and Latino literature and culture in the United States. Her primary field of research is contemporary Latin American women's literature, with special emphasis on Caribbean women's narrative and poetry. She has published articles on U.S.-Latino literature in the journals Hipertexto and Border-Lines, as well as a book chapter entitled "Lost Daughters of the Caribbean: Constructions of Identity by Hispanic and Francophone Women in the Caribbean Diaspora" which appears in Going Caribbean (Rodopi). She is the recipient of teaching awards from both Arizona State University and St. Thomas University.
April Karen Baptiste <abaptiste@colgate.edu> is a professor of Environmental Studies and Africana and Latin American Studies at Colgate University. She has a PhD from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, an MSc and BSc from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. Her research interests include environmental psychology, environmental justice, and natural resource management. Her primary region of research is the Caribbean while her second region is Central NY. She has published in a number of leading environmental, Caribbean and interdisciplinary journals, including Caribbean Geography, Geoforum, Area, The Black Scholar, and Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Annual Review of Environment and Resources to name a few. Her most recent book is Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities: Streams of Environmental Justice (2018). April's new research is expanding to look at environmental worldviews in the insular Caribbean with a lens to understand what are the elements of Caribbean environmental worldview and the role of decoloniality in these worldviews.
Fiona Dixon <fddixon@umass.edu> is a Ph.D. candidate in Hispanic Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she is carrying out her thesis on long term linguistic accommodation among Dominican immigrants in Madrid, Spain. Her research interests include dialect contact, phonetic variation, and language attitudes and identity, and other publications (in progress) examine individual differences in linguistic accommodation, and language attitudes towards /s/ use.
Linden F. Lewis <llewis@bucknell.edu> is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He is the editor of The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean, and Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization. He is also the co-author, with Dave Ramsaran of Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad.
Ruth Nina-Estrella <ruth.nina1@upr.edu> es Catedrática del Departamento de Psicología de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, con un doctorado en psicología social de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Sus áreas de investigación: familia, pareja y la diversidad cultural. En particular, se ha dedicado a estudiar la inmigración dominicana en Puerto Rico desde un contexto psicosocial. Ha publicado una variedad de libros y artículos en revistas nacionales e internacionales. Ademas de la producción de documentales, entre los que se destaca: Voces con Eco, Río Piedras la ciudad que habitamos y Familia(s).
Glorimarie Peña Alicea <glorimarie.pena_alicea@uconn.edu> es estudiante doctoral en el Programa de Español del Departamento de Literaturas, Culturas y Lenguajes de la Universidad de Connecticut. Obtuvo su maestría en Historia de Puerto Rico y el Caribe en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras. Además, Glorimarie ostenta un bachillerato en Ciencias Sociales con énfasis en el Caribe y América Latina. Sus intereses académicos son el Caribe, transnacionalismo y migración, la Historia Oral y la música. Glorimarie ha tenido la oportunidad de presentar sus trabajos en Puerto Rico y en países como México, España y Colombia. Por otra parte, Glorimarie pertenece al colectivo GH:Grupo de Historia, trabajó en la Casa Museo Felisa Rincón de Gautier como guía y ha sido coordinadora de la serie de conferencias académicas en 404 en Caguas. Ha publicado en la revista [IN...
