Notes on the Contributors

Claudio Belini obtained his doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires in 2004. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Argentine Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and a junior researcher at PEHESA (a research program of the Dr. Emilio Ravignani Institue of Argentine and American History at the University of Buenos Aires). His research interests include industrial history and public policies of the first half of the twentieth century. He has recently published "Política industrial e industria siderúrgica en tiempos de Perón, 1946–1955," Ciclos en la economía, la política y la sociedad no. 28 (2004).

Glen Biglaiser is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He is the author of Guardians of the Nation?: Economists, Generals, and Economic Reform in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). His research interests include the effects of politics on economic development. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and other publications.

Diane E. Davis is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Urban Studies at MIT, and Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is the author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (Temple University Press, 1994; Spanish translation 1999) and Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004), as well as co-editor of Violence, Coercion, and Rights in the Americas (Sage Publications, 2000) and Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Her current research, supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, examines the evolution of policing and the relationship between police impunity and deteriorating rule of law in cities of the developing world.

Karl Derouen, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama. His research interests are conflict processes and international political economy. Current research is on the role of domestic institutions in civil war onset and duration. His work has appeared in Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, and others.

Regina Horta Duarte is Associate Professor of History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She has published as A Imagem Rebelde (1991), Noites Circenses (1995), and O Circo em Cartaz (2002), and articles in several Brazilian and international journals (Revista brasileira de história, Varia história, Iberoamericana, Environment and History, Manguinhos, Estudos Iberoamericanos, Luso-Brazilian Review). Her current work researches the relationship between biology and politics in the 1930s, in Brazil.

Christian Gundermann is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. He completed doctoral studies in literature and film at Cornell University (1999) and Rutgers University (2002), and specializes in twentieth-century Latin American literature and cinema,especially in contemporary Argentinean film and post-dictatorship poetry and prose. He has recently published articles on the Argentinean Neobarroque as a challenge to Queer Studies, on the status of history in Alejandro Agresti's cinema, as well as on politics and aesthetics in the New Argentinean Cinema. He is also preparing a book manuscript on melancholia and resistance in post-dictatorship culture.

David R. Hansen was an undergraduate in economics at Brigham Young University at the time he participated in this research. He has since begun a Ph.D. program in economics at Stanford University. His current research interests include the design of microfinance programs and their capacity to develop human capital.

Kirk A. Hawkins is an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University. He recently completed a Ph.D. at Duke University, where he wrote his dissertation on party system breakdown and the emergence of charismatic political movements in Latin America. He currently studies charismatic politics, populism, and political parties in Latin America, and he has recently published work on Chavismo in Third World Quarterly.

Gareth A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography at...