Notes on the Contributors
- Notes on the Contributors
Alvaro Astudillo es egresado del programa de Master of Arts in Economics de la Universidad Alberto Hurtado que dicta en conjunto con Georgetown University. Desde ese mismo año se desempeña como coordinador del equipo de metodología del proyecto "Actualización de los índices de Precio al Productor y al por Mayor" desarrollado por el Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas de Chile. Sus áreas de interés son economía de la educación, economía laboral y desarrollo de políticas públicas.
Xóchitl Bada is assistant professor in the Program of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in sociology in 2008 from the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarship focuses on the civic, cultural, and political participation of Chicago-based Michoacano migrant hometown associations. Her research interests range from immigrant access to political and social rights, Black-Latino relations, and transnational communities. For the last two years, she has been codirecting a multisited Latin American immigrant civic integration study led by the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. The results of this project can be found at http://www.wilsoncenter.org/migrantparticipation.
Rubén Berríos teaches economics at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and has been teaching at the College of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Contracting for Development (2000), a monograph, and some thirty articles and chapters in books on international and economic development issues.
María Soledad Catoggio es licenciada en sociología por la Universidad de Buenos Aires, donde ejerce la docencia. Además es becaria doctoral del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.
Rodrigo Cordero is a research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. He is currently a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is editor of La sociedad de la opinion: Reflexiones sobre encuestas y cambio politico en democracia (2009).
Juan E. De Castro is assistant professor in the literary studies department at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts. He is the author of Mestizo Nations: Culture, Race, and Conformity in Latin American Literature (2002) and The Spaces of Latin American Literature: Tradition, Globalization and Cultural Production (2008). He is currently finishing a book on Mario Vargas Llosa as a "public intellectual" and editing, with Nicholas Birns, an anthology of essays on Vargas Llosa's novels and essays after his embrace of neoliberalism.
Patricia De Santana Pinho holds a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and is the author of Mama Africa: [End Page 270] Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (forthcoming). Her research interests focus on the themes of blackness and whiteness in Brazil. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany.
Cláudia Júlia Guimarães Horta is a researcher with the Fundação João Pinheiro in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and professor in the Escola de Governo Professor Paulo Neves de Carvalho. She is a member of the study group on living conditions and human development. Her recent publications include "Desenvolvimento humano em Minas Gerais" (in O estado do Estado, 2007) and "Análise dos indicadores de desenvolvimento humano para a cidade de São Paulo" (Desenvolvimento da cidade de São Paulo, 2007). She also published, with José Alberto Magno de Carvalho and Olinto José Oliveira Nogueira, "Evolução do comportamento reprodutivo da mulher brasileira—1991-2000: Cálculo da taxa de fecundidade total em nível municipal," (Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2005).
Judith Laikin Elkin is the author of The Jews of Latin America and founding president of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. An associate of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Elkin has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Association of University Women, American Jewish Archives, and the John Carter Brown Library.
William M. Leogrande is dean of the School...
