Contributors

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michael ervin teaches history and directs the Latino and Latin American Studies program at Central Washington University. He is currently completing The Art of the Possible: Agronomists and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, a social, political, and cultural history of the role of middle class professionals in Mexico’s postrevolutionary processes of state and nation formation.mark morris holds a PhD in Latin American history from Indiana University.rosalina ríos zúñiga is a researcher with the Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educación (IISUE-UNAM) and Professor in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the UNAM. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. She has written the books Formar ciudadanos: sociedad civil y movilización popular en Zacatecas, 1821–1853 and La educación de la colonia a la república: El Colegio de San Luis Gonzaga y el Instituto Literario de Zacatecas (1754–1854) (Centro de Estudios sobre la Universidad-UNAM-Ayuntamiento de Zacatecas, 2002). She has published a number of articles on the history of education and cultural politics in nineteenth-century Mexico. She is currently working on a research project on the insurgency in Zacatecas.carlos rubén ruiz medrano is a Professor of History and researcher at the Colegio de San Luis, A.C. He received his PhD from the University of Seville and is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT). His research focuses primarily on forms of collective resistance in colonial New Spain. His publications include Plata labrada en la Real Hacienda: Estudio fiscal novohispano, 1739–1800 (Mexico City: INAH / El Colegio de San Luis A.C., 2001); and “La máquina de muertes en San Luis Potosí y Guanajuato: Los levantamientos populares de 1766 y 1767” (in press). He has also published articles in a number of journals, including Mesoamérica, Estudios Novohispanos, and Colonial Latin American Historical Review.