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Thomas L. Benjamin , professor of history at Central Michigan University, is best known for his monograph, A Rich Land, A Poor People: Politics and Society in Modern Chiapas (1996), but he has also edited two significant anthologies dealing with modern Mexican history. With William McNellie he edited Other Mexicos: Essays on Regional Mexican History, 18761911 (1984), and with Mark Wasserman he edited Provinces of the Revolution (1989). His current research focuses on monuments and the creation of the official history of the revolution in La Revolucin: Mexicos Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History (2000).

John Charles Chasteen received his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, where he is now professor of history. The author of several books on the border region and peoples of Brazil and Uruguay, he recently has turned to the study of music and dance in Latin America, with the goal of writing a book on the national rhythms of Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba.

Darin J. Davis , associate professor at Middlebury College, received his Ph.D. from Tulane University. He edited Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean (1995), in the Latin American Jaguar Series, and currently is working on a general study of Brazilian music.

Lauren (Robin) H. Derby, visiting professor at the University of Chicago, examined the cultural history of the Dominican Republic in her dissertation, The Magic of Modernity: Dictatorship and Civic Culture in the Dominician Republic, 19161962. From this research she published Haitians, Magic and Money: Raza and Society in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, 19001937 in Comparative Studies in Society and History . Her essay won the 1995 Conference on Latin American History Award. She has done several radio programs on Caribbean popular music on Chicagos WHPK.

Matthew D. Esposito received his Ph.D. from Texas Christian University in 1997. In his dissertation, Memorializing Modern Mexico: The State Funerals of the Porfirian Era, 18761911, he examined the connection between state funerals and the campaign to legitimate the regime of Porfirio Diaz (18761911). Currently he is assistant professor of history at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Ingrid E. Fey is adjunct professor at UCLA, where she received her Ph.D. in 1996. In addition to revising her dissertation, entitled First Tango in Paris: Latin Americans in Turn-of-the-Century France, 18801920, she and Karen Racine are the editors of the anthology Strange Pilgrimages : Exile, Travel, and National Identity in Latin America, 18001990s (2000). She has written one of the few studies on Latin American participation in the world fairs.

Stephen Jay Gould , world-renowned paleontologist at Harvard University, has published more than fifteen books on a variety of topics in natural history, including The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Bully for Brontosaurus (1988), Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin (1996), Leonardos Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998), and, most recently, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (1999). He also writes a monthly scientific essay for Nature Magazine . Gould currently holds the Alexander Agassiz Professorship of Zoology at Harvard University and the Vincent Astor Professorship of Biology at New York University.

Graham E. L. Holton received the University Medal for his 1995 dissertation, State Petroleum Enterprises and the International Oil Industry: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago, at LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Australia. His research builds on his two undergraduate degrees in history (LaTrobe) and petroleum geology (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). His dissertation will be published as a monograph by the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

Fanni Muoz Cabrejo , a native of Lima, Peru, wrote her dissertation on modernization programs and social change in Lima during the Belle Epoque. She completed her doctoral program through the Department of History at El Colegio de Mexico in 1999.

Blanca Muratorio , professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, has published extensively on a variety of topics dealing with ethnicity and Native Americans, especially in Ecuador. Her works include Etnicidad, evarcgelizacin y protesta en el Ecuador: Una perspectiva antropolgica (1982), The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso: Culture and History in the Upper Amazon (1991), and Imgenes e imagineros (1994).

Jeffrey M. Pilcher , who received his Ph.D. at Texas Christian University, published Que vivan los tamales: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity ! (1998) with the University of New Mexico Press. He is assistant professor at the Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina, and has begun research for a biography of Cantinflas.

Nancy Leys Stepan has probed the intricate relationship between race and gender as scientific categories and how these concepts affected Latin American politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An eminent historian at Columbia University, Stepan has published The Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890 1920 (1976), The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain , 1800 1960 (1982), and The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (1991).

Pamela Voekel , assistant professor of history at the University of Montana, received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas for her dissertation Scent and Sensibility: Pungency and Piety in the Making of the Veracruz Gente Sensata, 17801810. She published the widely cited article, Peeing on the Palace: Bodily Resistance to Bourbon Reforms, in the Journal of Historical Sociology .