Contributors

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david carey jr. is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives: Xkib’ij kan qate’ Qatata’ (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2001) and has published articles in Latin American Perspectives and the Latin American Research Review. His current book project, Engendering Mayan History: Mayan Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875–1970, is forthcoming from Routledge Press.jordana dym is Associate Professor of Latin American History at Skidmore College, with a Ph.D. from New York University. Her research on the role of municipal politics in Central America’s early nineteenth-century state formation has culminated in a monograph, From Sovereign Villages to National States: City, State and Federation in Central America, 1759–1839 (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 2006), and Politics, Economy and Society in Bourbon Central America (Colorado Univ. Press, 2006), a book coedited with Christophe Belaubre (Univ. of Toulouse, France). In addition, she is working on a project on the cartography of travel writers with funding from the NEH and has published in edited volumes and journals, including Mesoamérica and Journal of Historical Geography.romana falcóN is Professor of History at the Centro de Estudios Históricos of El Colegio de México. She is the author of many publications, including Las rasgaduras de la descolonización: Españoles y Mexicanos a mediados del siglo XIX (Colegio de México, 1996), México descalzo: Estrategias de sobrevivencia frente a la modernización liberal (Plaza y Janés, 2002), and most recently edited Culturas de pobreza y resistencia: Estudios de marginados, proscritos y descontentos. México, 1804–1910 (Colegio de México / Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 2005).thomas miller klubock is Associate Professor of History at SUNY–Stony Brook. He is the author of Contested Communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile’s El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904–1951 (Duke University Press, 1998). His article in this issue is part of a larger study focused on the history of Chile’s native temperate rain forests, examining the environmental history of rain forests as linked to the process of modern state formation, conflicts over land and labor, and the politics of nationalism, citizenship, and ethnicity.