María Clemencia Ramírez joined the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History-ICANH as a researcher in 1977 and was appointed Director in 2005, a position she held until July 2007, when she became a research associate. She attended the Universidad de los Andes, where she earned a B.A in anthropology; the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where
Enrique Peruzzotti is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, an appointment he took up after receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1996. Interested in the politics of social accountability, Mr. Peruzzotti early
Argentinian Elías José Palti is one of the most innovative and prolific writers on the intellectual history of Latin America. The depth of the knowledge of the political, literary, and cultural history of Central and South America that he has brought to his researches has been largely responsible for reshaping the debate about not only
Verónica Cereceda Bianchi is the General Director of the Foundation for Anthropological Investigation and Ethno-development (ASUR), which she founded with her late husband, Gabriel Martinez, in the 1980s. Centered in the Bolivian city of Sucre, the Foundation offers native weavers not only a market outlet for their beautiful textiles, but a museum to showcase them.
Angela Alonso is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil; the coordinator of the Environmental Conflicts Area at Cebrap (Brazilian Centre of Analysis and Planning); and a researcher at the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, hosted by the University of Sussex (UK). In 2008-09 she will also be
Risa Goluboff teaches constitutional law, civil rights law, and legal and constitutional history at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on the history of civil rights, labor, and constitutional law in the 20th century. Her book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights (Harvard University Press, 2007), explored alternative understandings of civil rights in the
Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Senior Fellow of the Humanities Center at Harvard. Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
John D. Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, and Director, Center for European Studies, received his B.A. (1970) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1976) from Yale University. His main interests are comparative politics and political economy, with area foci on Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He teaches
Evelyne Huber is Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She studied at the University of Zurich and received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from Yale University. Her interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with an
Kanchan Chandra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University, a position she took up in 2005, after four years on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the nine years since she earned her Ph.D. in government at Harvard University (2000),
Robert Moffitt is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked since September 1995. Prior to assuming his position at Johns Hopkins, Professor Moffitt was Professor of Economics at Brown University, where he taught for eleven years. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin and the
Sanford M. Jacoby is the Howard Noble Professor in UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He also holds appointments in UCLA’s Department of History and its Department of Public Policy. His research uses comparative and historical methods to analyze employers, labor market institutions, and the political economy of labor and corporate governance. He received his Ph.D.
Daniel Z. Sui holds the Reta A. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences, and is the Assistant Vice President for Research, Director of the program in Geospatial Information Science and Technology (GIST), and Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University. His research interests include the integration of spatial analysis and modeling with GIS for socio-economic and environmental applications,
Martin Doyle is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, and the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. His research and writing is focused on rivers. Spending his childhood in southern Mississippi and part of his education at Ole Miss, he developed a long-term interest specifically in
Kevin A. Yelvington is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. He received a B.S. in communications (1983) and an M.A. in international studies (1985) from Florida International University. He then continued his studies at the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, where he earned
I spent my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of dramatic, widespread, and consequential changes in sex and death: first the historical declines in fertility in Europe and the U.S., then the global spread of fertility control, and, since 1994, the role of informal social networks in responses to the AIDS epidemic in Africa,
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