gilbert m. joseph is the Farnam Professor of history, director of the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University, and coeditor of the HAHR. His most recent books are coedited collections, Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.-Latin American Relations (1998), Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940 (2001), and Crime and Punishment in Latin America: Law and Society since Late Colonial Times (2001).
sueann caulfield is associate professor of history and director of the Latin American Studies program at the University of Michigan. She is the author of In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil (2000) and several articles on gender, race, and the social history of Rio de Janeiro. Her current research focuses on family separation, divorce, and illegitimacy in twentieth-century Brazil.
thomas miller klubock is associate professor of history...
