Contributors
- Contributors
Fernando Cervantes is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic and Latin American Studies in the University of Bristol, U.K. He is the author of The Devil in the New World: the impact of diabolism in New Spain (Yale, 1994), co-editor with N. Griffiths of Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native religions in Colonial America (Birmingham, 1999), and he has published articles in Past and Present, Historical Research and other scholarly journals.
Lisa Sousa is an Assistant Professor at Occidental College, where she teaches colonial and modern Latin American history. She is co-translator and co-author (with Stafford Poole and James Lockhart) of The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega’s Huei Tlamahuiçoltica of 1649. She is currently completing a book manuscript on Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec women of colonial Mexico.
Rosalva Loreto López is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and a Member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores Nivel II. She is the author of Los conventos de mujeres en el mundo urbano en la Puebla de los Angeles del siglo XVIII. México, 2000, and Un bocado para los Angeles, México, 2000. She also co-edited, with Asunción Lavrín, Monjas y Beatas, La escritura femenina y la religiosidad Barroca Novohispana. Siglos XVII y XVIII.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is professor of History at Carleton University. She received her doctorate from Tulane in 1988. She is the author of To Defend Our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla and the co-editor of The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America. She has published numerous articles and chapters and won the Tibesar Prize in 1992.
Kristin Ruggiero is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her earlier research resulted in the book, And Here the World Ends: The Life of an Argentine Village, published by Stanford University Press in 1988. Her more recent research, published in journals and book collections, forms the basis for her work in progress called “In Hostage to the Body: Medicine, Law and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Argentina.” This work was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation.
