Meet LAP Editor Tomás Crowder-Taraborelli

Tomas Crowder-Taraborelli, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies

Phone: 949-480-4327
Fax: 949-480-4243
Email: tcrowdertaraborrelli@soka.edu
http://www.tcrowdertaraborrelli.com/
Faculty - Full-Time
BIOGRAPHY

Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli studied journalism and film at San Francisco State University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. In 1994,  he received a master's degree in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University. He then went into the Spanish and Portuguese doctoral program at the University of California, Irvine and received his Ph. D in 2001. Before coming to SUA, Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli taught at the University of San Francisco, where he founded the film collective Cine Campesino and made two documentaries in Honduras (2002-2004). He then received a Fellowship in the Humanities at Stanford University, California, where he taught and did research on the role of cinema in the investigation of crimes against humanity. He also co-founded the Stanford Film Lab and ran it from 2004-2008. Dr. Crowder-Taraborrelli also studied scriptwriting, lighting and direction at the Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, California. He has given lectures and workshops on film and is one of the editors of the anthology Film and Genocide (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012).

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Meet LAP editor Armando Gonzalez-Caban

Armando Gonzalez-Caban

Economist

4955 Canyon Crest Drive

Riverside

California

United States

92507

Phone: 951-680-1525

Meet LAP Editor Jennifer Hughes

Jennifer Hughes
Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley 2005
Masters, Harvard University, Divinity School 1996
B.A., Highest Honors, Latin American Studies, University of California, San

ta Cruz 1996

Areas of specialization: History of Religions. Historical and cultural study of Latin American and Latino religions, including conquest, mission, conversion, syncretism, indigenous Christianity. History of modern Christianity. Material religion, material culture (theory of the object) and religion and art, especially the religious image. Affective approaches to the study of religion, religion and emotion.

jennifer.hughes@ucr.edu
Curriculum Vitae

BIOGRAPHY

Jennifer Hughes' research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latino religions, religion and art (including especially religious images), the role of religion in colonialism and decolonization, Christianity in the Southern Hemisphere, and immigrant religions. Professor Hughes' first book, Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2010), is a history of popular devotion to artistic images of the suffering Christ in Mexico. She is currently working on two new projects. The first treats the impact of mass death by epidemic disease on the shape of New World Christianity. The second explores Latino religious practice in the metro Los Angeles/Southern California area. She is currently the co-chair of the Religion in Latin America and Caribbean Group of the American Academy of Religion. In addition to her academic scholarship, Professor Hughes has worked as an advocate for homeless Latinos with HIV/AIDS, as a translator and advocate for Angolan refugees in South Africa, and with the liberation theology base community movement in Brazil. Professor Hughes is also the founding co-director of UC Riverside's Institute for the Study of Immigrant Religions.

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Meet LAP Editor George S. Leddy

George S. Leddy

Brief Biography

Born in Washington D.C. to a career foreign service family with Irish-American father and a Peruvian mother.  I spent my childhood and youth in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, where I lived for twenty years.  Attended school in the United States; California resident since 1974. Research and travel in South America, Europe and Africa.

Education

University of California at Santa Barbara, Major: Philosophy, 1973-1975
University of California at Santa Cruz, Double Major:  Environmental/Community Studies, 1977-1978
University of California at Berkeley, B.Sc.  Conservation & Resource Studies, 1978-1979
Area of Interest:  The Political Economy of Agriculture in Latin America.
University of California at Berkeley, M.A.  Human Geography, 1981- 1985
Thesis:  Petroleum Revenue, Agriculture and the State in Venezuela
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Ad Hoc Individual Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in
Ecology and Development Policy, 1995
Thesis:  Catches, Commerce and Crisis:  Fisheries, Government and Trade in the Mexican port of Guaymas, Sonora



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Meet LAP Editor Sheryl Lutjens

Dr. Lutjens joined the Women’s Studies Department at CSUSM as Chair in January 2008.  Her teaching areas include Feminist Theory, Women and Politics, Gender and Organizations, Gender and Development, and Women and Revolution.

Education
Sheryl Lutjens earned a B.A. in German from the University of California, Riverside, a secondary teaching credential from CSU San Bernardino, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.



 Research

Sheryl’s research has focused on power, participation, the state, and democracy; women/gender and politics in the U.S., Spain, and Latin America; and feminist politics and political theory.  As a Cuba specialist, her research on Cuba has explored the state and administrative reform, popular participation and democracy, women, education, and U.S.-Cuba academic relations.   Her publications include two books, The State, Bureaucracy, and the Cuban Schools: Power and Participation and the co-edited collection Rereading Latin American Women: The Political Economy of Gender, six special issues of the journal Latin American Perspectives (two on women/gender in Latin America and four on Cuba), numerous articles and chapters in books, and North America and the Caribbean, a volume she edited for the six-volume The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide.  Her recent publications include “The Subject(s) of Academic and Cultural Exchange:  Paradigms, Power, and Possibilities,” in Debating U.S.-Cuba Relations:  Shall We Play Ball? eds. Rafael Hernández and Jorge I. Domínguez (Routledge, 2011).

Sheryl is a member of the editorial boards of Cuban Studies and The International Journal of Cuban Studies, and a coordinating editor of Latin American Perspectives.  Among other collaborative projects, Lutjens has worked since 1994 with the Association of Cuban Educators in the organization of annual seminarios, in Cuba, for U.S. and Cuban educational professionals, teachers, and graduate students.  She is a founding member of the Latin American Studies Association’s Section for Scholarly Relations with Cuba and is currently co-chair of the 665-member section.


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Meet LAP Editor Stephanie Moore

Stephanie Moore

Educator/Program Manager/Researcher/Community Engagement/Latin American, World, Gender & Oral History
Greater Los Angeles AreaHigher Education


Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Latin American Perspectives Journal
Salisbury University, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, UC San Diego


Education
University of California, San Diego

I am presently seeking a position that draws upon my extensive teaching and program management experience in higher education and nonprofit organizations. I have over seven years of university teaching experience in History (Latin American, world, U.S. immigration, Spanish, and East Asian), Spanish, and Spanish-English Interpretation. I am an innovative educator, dedicated to fostering in students a critical engagement with our world through inquiry and service learning. Student evaluations have consistently characterized me as a dynamic teacher of highly interactive classes, creative in my teaching methods, and successful with diverse learners. I am an award-winning scholar (Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) Prelinger Award, 2010) specializing in race and gender in Latin America (19th-20th centuries) and I presently serve on the CCWH Executive Board.

Reflective of my commitment to community engagement, I have published and presented in multiple community forums as well as led university community outreach programs. From 2009 to 2013, I coordinated Salisbury University's Bienvenidos a Delmarva (2009-2013) where I organized educational programs on immigrant issues for a network of over 70 public, private, and nonprofit agencies. I presently serve as Program and Development Coordinator of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project (JPOHP). I recently secured a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund the JPOHP/National Japanese American Historical Society’s creation of a digital museum, on which I serve as Principal Scholar, on the incarceration of Japanese Latin Americans in U.S. internment camps during WWII. Finally, I have over a decade of experience managing education and advocacy programs in human (Mothers of the Disappeared in El Salvador, Witness for Peace, and JPOHP), civil (Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights), and workers' rights (The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America) in the United States and Latin America.

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In Memoriam: Maria Helena Moreira Alves (1944–2015)

::::::In Memoriam::::::

 Maria Helena Moreira Alves (1944–2015) 

Maria Helena Moreira Alves passed away on July 27, 2015, in Havana, Cuba, where she was receiving treatment for cancer. An internationally recognized Brazilian political scientist and human rights activist, Alves was a longtime collaborator of Latin American Perspectives and served as a participating editor. During the late 1970's she participated in the transnational movement to denounce the Brazilian military dictatorship through the Brazilian Labor and Information Center. Between 1983 and 1985 she was the Director of Public and International Relations of the city of Diadema...

Latin American Perspectives
September 2015 42: 272

Meet LAP Editor Jonathan Ritter

Meet LAP Editor Jonathan Ritter
Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor
Director, UCR Latin American Studies Program
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Email: jonathan.ritter@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-6097
Office: Arts 139


Jonathan Ritter is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on the indigenous and Afro-Hispanic musical cultures of Andean South America.

Meet LAP editor Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

Meet LAP editor Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College

Professor, Sociology; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Trevizo is a political sociologist and teaches courses in political sociology, social movements and revolutions, theory, immigration to the United States, and quantitative research methods.

Education: A.B., Occidental College; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA

Her research and writing focus on the relations between states (democratic and authoritarian) and civil societies. Recently, her work has focused on the causes and political consequences of peasant movements in Mexico. She returned to Oxy in 1997 as a minority dissertation fellow and has been teaching as an assistant professor since 1998.

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Meet LAP Editor Clare M. Weber, California State University, Domingo Hills

Meet LAP Editor Clare M. Weber, California State University, Domingo Hills

Meet LAP Editor Kristi M. Wilson, Soka University of America

Meet LAP Editor Kristi M. Wilson, Soka University of America

Kristi M. Wilson received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1999 in Comparative Literature and has since then authored many publications among them Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (co-edited by Laura E. Ruberto, Wayne State University Press, 2007), an Introduction to The Satyricon of Petronius (Barnes and Nobles, 2006) and several articles and reviews for academic journals such as Screen, the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, Signs, Literature/Film Quarterly, and others.

Shortly after earning her Ph.D., Wilson was the recipient of a UC Berkeley Summer Research Institute Fellowship and a UC Irvine, Humanities Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship. She the went to Stanford as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities in the Humanities Program in 2000 where she taught several interdisciplinary humanities courses. She joined the Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric faculty in 2004 where she taught until coming to SUA in 2008.

Her teaching and research interests include classics (Greek tragedy, comedy, oratory, satire, epic poetry), gender studies, philosophy, literature, theater, and film studies. While at SFSU, she wrote and directed a musical adaptation of Euripides' little know tragedy The Phoenician Women called Tanguedia. Lyrics for the songs were set to "golden age" tango classics and the play was set in 1930s Buenos Aires. The musical was performed in two different productions at SF State University and in the Castro district of San Francisco.

At Stanford she founded and directed the Stanford Film Lab (http://filmlab.stanford.edu/), a student-based group that supports the development of links between visual, oral and written rhetoric in the form of documentary film. Wilson was also a founding member of the Bay Area documentary film collective Cine Campesino, which produced two short documentary, films about rural communities in Honduras and created an international Latin American film festival. Some of her film and television work has appeared on the syndicated television show Latin Eyes.

Meet LAP Founder Frances Chilcote

Meet LAP Founder Frances Chilcote

Frances Chilcote was born into a culturally conservative but socially concerned Boston family.
While she was attending Vassar College, the reality of U.S. racism became personal when her parents cautioned her not to bring an African-American friend home for a visit. Later, her cousin and best friend was socially isolated on wealthy Martha’s Vineyard, where her husband, a minister, was expelled from his parish because of his support for civil rights, including taking part in the landmark Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March.

Meet LAP Founder and Managing Editor Ronald H. Chilcote

Meet LAP Founder and Managing Editor Ronald H. Chilcote

Ronald Chilcote came from an upper-middle-class Republican family that owned a small manufacturing company in Cleveland. His father had attended Dartmouth College, where he became friends with Nelson Rockefeller, and later studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Following family tradition, Ron attended Dartmouth College. It was in that Ivy League institution that Chilcote was introduced to progressive thought during his senior year as a member of the English poetry circle, dedicated to encouraging promising writers, led by Richard Eberhart. Through Eberhart’s seminar, Ron met and studied with Richard Wilbur (then at Smith College), Donald Hall, and Robert Frost, and later, at Stanford, he attended the literature courses of Yvor Winters.

Meet LAP Editor, Miguel Tinker Salas, PhD

Meet LAP Editor, Miguel Tinker Salas, PhD

Miguel Tinker Salas, PhD is one of the nation's foremost authorities on political and social issues confronting Latin America. He is the author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Citizenship in Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2009); co-editor with Steve Ellner of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez and the Decline of an Exceptional Democracy, (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007); co editor with Jan Rus of Mexico 2006-2012: neoliberalism, movimientos sociales y politica electoral, (Miguel Angel Porrua and Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, 2006) and author of Under the Shadow of the Eagles, The Border and the Transformation of Sonora During the Porfiriato, University of California Press 1997. 

His expertise includes:  contemporary Latin America, society and politics in Venezuela and Mexico, oil, culture and politics in Venezuela, the drug war in Mexico, Mexican border society, Chicanos/as and Latinos/as in the United States, and Latin American immigration. 

Miguel Tinker Salas is currently a Professor of Latin American History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Meet LAP Editor, Richard Stahler-Sholk, PhD

Meet LAP Editor, Richard Stahler-Sholk, PhD

Richard Stahler-Sholk, PhD is a professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University, recently returned from sabbatical in Chiapas, Mexico where he has a research affiliation with the Center for Advanced Studies of Mexico and Central America (CESMECA). He serves on the editorial collective of Latin American Perspectives, and on the board of directors of the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ). He co-edited Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-first Century: Resistance, Power, and Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), and also Luchas ‘muy otras’: Zapatismo y autonomía en las comunidades indígenas de Chiapas (UAM-Xochimilco, CIESAS, & UNACH 2011).

Meet LAP Editor, Steve Ellner

Meet LAP Editor, Steve Ellner

Steve Ellner has taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela since 1977. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles on Venezuelan history and politics, specifically in the area of political parties and organized labor. In addition, Ellner was a frequent contributor to Commonweal magazine beginning in the 1980's and more recently In These Times and NACLA Report on the Americas and has written op-ed articles in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He frequent lectures on Venezuelan and Latin American political developments in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Meet LAP Editor, Marc Becker, PhD

Meet LAP Editor, Marc Becker, PhD

Marc Becker, PhD has taught Latin American history at Truman State University since 1999. He holds a bachelors degree in History and Peace Studies from Bethel College in Kansas, and masters and doctorate degrees in Latin American History from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is the author of Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador (2011), Historia agraria y social de Cayambe (2009), Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador's Modern Indigenous Movements (2008), and Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory (1993). He is the editor and translator of José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology (2011) and editor of Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador (2007). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters on Indigenous and popular movements in Latin America. Marc has received Fulbright, SSRC-MacArthur, and other fellowships to support his research. He has served on the executive committees and has been web editor of NativeWeb, the Ecuadorian Studies and Ethnicity Race and Indigenous Peoples sections of the Latin American Studies Association, the Andean and Teaching Materials committees of the Conference on Latin American History, Peace History Society, Historians Against the War, and Truman chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

Meet LAP Editor, Tom Angotti

Meet LAP Editor, Tom Angotti

Tom Angotti is Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development. His recent books include The New Century of the Metropolis, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the Davidoff Book Award, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths. He is co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine, and Participating Editor for Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He is actively engaged in community and environmental justice issues in New York City.