Back Matter

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.5.2.bm
• Published date: 01 October 2013
• Date: 01 October 2013
• Pages: 218-224

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Joanna Allan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese

and Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds. Her thesis focuses on

constructions of gender in the discourses of the Saharawi Arab Democratic

Republic and Equatoguinean governments. Previously, Joanna worked at

NGOs including National Energy Action, the UK Consortium on AIDS and

International Development, and War on Want. She is currently Treasurer of

Western Sahara Resource Watch.

Velia Cecilia Bobes, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Social Science MA

Program at FLACSO in Mexico City. Her books include: Debates sobre trans-

nacionalismo (FLACSO, México, 2012), Los tecuanes danzan en la nieve.

Contactos transnacionales entre Axochiapan y Minnesota (FLACSO, México,

2011) and La nación inconclusa. (re)Constituciones de la ciudadanía y el cambio

social en Cuba (FLACSO, México, 2007).

Dr Karen S. Christian is an Associate Professor of Spanish at California

Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, where she teaches language,

literature and culture. She is the author of Show and Tell: Identity as Performance

in U.S. Latina/o Fiction (UNM Press, 1997) and has published articles on Latin

American narrative, US Latina/o literature, and service-learning in Latino

immigrant communities. Dr Christian’s most recent publication is ‘La lengua

que se repite: Pushing the Boundaries of Cuban/American Literature’ (Caribe:

Revista de cultura y literatura 13.2 (Winter 2010–2011)). Her current research

focuses on gender, language and identity in contemporary Cuban narrative and

literature of the Cuban diaspora.

Lisa Glidden, PhD, is Associate Professor of political science at the State

University of New York – College at Oswego. She also teaches for the Global

Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Sustainability Studies programmes.

She works closely with the College’s study abroad programme in Cuba at the

University of Havana, and teaches courses with travel to Cuba, Turkey and

Ecuador. Her book Mobilizing Ethnic Identity in the Andes: A Study of Ecuador

and Peru was recently published by Lexington Books. She is currently working

on Understanding Energy and Energy Policy (with Timothy Braun), forthcoming

with Zed Books.

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