peter m. beattie received the doctorate from the University of Miami in 1994, and is currently an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. His article “Asking, Telling, and Pursuing in the Brazilian Military in the Days of Cachaça, Sodomy, and the Lash, 1864-1916,” appears in Sex and Gender in Latin America, a reader edited by Donna J. Guy and Daniel Balderston (forthcoming). His current project is a book-length manuscript based on his dissertation and titled “Penal Servitude versus Conscription: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945.”
john k. chance is professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. His research focuses on Mexican indigenous communities during the colonial period. He is the author of Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca (1978) and Conquest of the Sierra: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Oaxaca (1989). He is currently studying the colonial Nahua elite and its cacicazgos in Santiago Tecali, Puebla.
michael j. gonzales is professor of history and director of the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933 (1985) and numerous articles on Peruvian and Mexican history. He is currently writing a book on the Mexican Revolution, 1910-40.
