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Ana Maria Alonso is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-Austin. She is currently working on a book which examines gender, ethnicity, and class in constructions of subjectivity on the Northern Mexican frontier from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. She has published articles on official and popular memory and on ideologies of domination and resistance in Northern Mexico.

Maria Teresa Koreck is a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Chicago, and is currently a visiting research fellow in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has done field work in rural northern Mexico focussing on processes of state formation and popular resistance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Until recently she was a lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.