Contributors
- Contributors
Christine Ehrick is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Her first book, The Shield of the Weak: Feminism and the State in Uruguay, 1903-1933, was published in 2005 by the University of New Mexico Press. Earlier articles on various aspects of gender, feminism and state formation in Uruguay have appeared in Gender and History, Social Science History, and The Americas. She is currently researching the history of women and radio in Latin America (1930s-1940s).
Tamara L. Falicov is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film/Center of Latin American Studies at the University of Kansas. She teaches courses in Latin American cinema, Cuban cinema, Cinemas of the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and a graduate seminar on the political economy of film and television industries. Her work on Argentine cinema appears in Media, Culture, and Society, Framework, Canadian Journal of Communication, Film and History, and Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, among others. Her forthcoming book, The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (London: Wallflower Press, 2006), explores the Argentine film industry from the origins of sound film to the present. Her current research focuses on film industries in Latin America and their relationship to the Spanish and the U.S. film industries.
Ana M. López is Associate Provost and Director of the Cuban Studies Institute at Tulane University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, teaching film and cultural studies. Her research and publications have been focused on Latin American and Latino film and cultural studies.
Laura Isabel Serna is an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She received the Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from Harvard University in June of 2006. She is currently working on a manuscript that examines the reception of American films in Mexico and Mexican immigrant communities during the 1920s.
Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp is Assistant Professor of History at Sonoma State University. She is the author of the forthcoming book entitled, So Far From Allah. So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. In February 2006, Professor Alfaro-Velcamp published “Immigrant Positioning in Twentieth-Century Mexico: Middle Easterners, Foreign Citizens, and Multiculturalism,” in the Hispanic American Historical Review. [End Page v]
