jonathan brown serves as deputy director of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Northern Illinois University. Since completing his book on Argentine economic history, Brown has been working on the history of foreign oil companies in Latin America.
jorge gelman is at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Doctor Emilio Ravignani” of the Universidad de Buenos Aires as well as on the staff of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. He received his doctorate in history from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1983 and is currently engaged in research on the rural history of the Río de la Plata during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
thomas h. holloway teaches Latin American history at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974. He is the author of Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1886-1934 and The Brazilian Coffee Valorization of 1906: Regional Politics and Economic Dependence, as well as several articles on Brazilian social history. He is currently working on a general history of the institutions of social control and their relationship to urban society in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro.
kenneth f. kiple is a professor of history at Bowling Green State University. He received his Ph. D. in history and doctoral certificate in Latin American studies from the University of Florida in 1970. He is the author of The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History (1984) and other works dealing with the biological history of black people in Africa and the Americas, and at present is working on a capstone book which will unite these previous studies. He is the editor of the projected Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease and Cambridge Historical, Geographical and Cultural Dictionary of Human Nutrition.
ricardo d. salvatore is associate professor of economic history at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Having completed a year as a fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, Salvatore is now a visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His current research concerns labor in the cattle industries of nineteenth-century Latin America. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Texas in 1985.
christopher ward received his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of Florida in 1988. His dissertation was a study of trade and fortifications in colonial Panama. He is now a visiting scholar in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is working on Mayan hieroglyphs.
