samuel amaral received a Ph.D. in History from the University of La Plata, Argentina, in 1977. Currently he is Professor of History at the same university, fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, and visiting fellow at the Instituto Torcuato Di Telia, Buenos Aires. His specialization and publications have focused on the trade and finances of Buenos Aires in the early national period.
thomas benjamin, recipient of the 1980-81 Doherty Fellowship for Advanced Study in Latin America, received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1981 and currently is an Assistant Professor of History at Central Michigan University. He is co-editor, with William McNellie, of Other Mexicos: Essays on Regional Mexican History, 1876-1911 (1984), completing a book manuscript on politics and state development in Chiapas, Mexico, and beginning another on Mexican historiography since Independence.
sandra f. mcgee is Assistant Professor of History and Co-Chair of Latin American Studies at DePaul University. She received the Ph.D. in History with a certificate in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida in 1979. Her research interests are twentieth-century Argentine history, comparative perspectives on the modern right, and women’s history. She recently completed a book manuscript on the Argentine right between 1900 and 1932.
marcial ocasio-meléndez is a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University and an Instructor in the History Department at the Caribbean University College in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. He is completing his dissertation entitled “Mexican Urban Development and the United States Presence: The Case of Tampico, 1876-1925.”
james d. riley received his Ph.D. from Tulane University in 1972 and is currently an Associate Professor of History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His previous published work has focused on the economic activity of the Jesuit order in eighteenth-century Mexico, hacienda management, and labor relations in the province of Tlaxcala. His current research, nearing completion, pertains to the social history of land tenure in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Tlaxcala.
john d. wirth received his Ph D. in History from Stanford University, where he is Professor of History, and former Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. His research interests continue primarily to center around twentieth-century Brazil, but also include hemispheric economic and political relations. He is the editor of the forthcoming The Politics of Energy: Essays on the Oil Companies in Latin America.
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javier cuenca esteban is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
j. r. fisher is Reader in Latin American History and Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Liverpool.
tulio halperín-donghi is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
herbert s. klein is Professor of History at Columbia University.
john j. tepaske is Professor of History at Duke University.
