LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/41945949
• Pages: 261-264
• Published date: 01 July 2011
• Date: 01 July 2011

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Carlos

Alzugaray

Treto

(PhD,

Historical

Sciences,

University

of

Havana) is a

professor

at the Centre for

Hemispheric

and United States

Studies,

University

of

Havana. He served

in

the Cuban

Foreign

Service from 1961 to 1996. His last

diplomatic post

was Ambassador Head of Mission to the

European

Union. He has

written three books and more than 60 academic

essays.

He has

received several

awards for his

writing

and

teaching.

In

2010 he was selected as Outstanding

Researcher of the

year,

the

highest

distinction

in

this

category

from

the Cuban

Ministry

of

Higher

Education. He has been a visiting professor

at

universities

in

Spain,

Canada,

the United

States,

Italy

and

Mexico. He

is a

member of the

Cuban

Academy

of Sciences and of the Executive Committee of the Cuba

Section,

Latin

American Studies Association.

Maribel

Aponte-García

gained

her

PhD in

Economics

from

the

University

of

Massachusetts at

Amherst,

and her

BA

from the

University

of

Puerto Rico. She

holds a

joint

appointment

as full

professor

and researcher at the

Graduate School

of

Business

and

the Social

Science

Research

Centre,

both

at the

University

of

Puerto

Rico,

Río Piedras

Campus.

Her academic research

explores

theoretical

links between

strategic regionalism, endogenous development,

and sustainable

regional production

chains;

and

develops

a

methodology

for

policy analysis

based

on

these

links.

She has written numerous articles

published

in

academic

journals

and books. Her most recent work is the book with video on

the Bolivarian

Alliance,

forthcoming

in

2011,

written under the Latin

American Social Science

Council

(CLACSO) Award on Critical

Thought

Research;

and

Cuba

: A Video

Collection on the

Emerging

as Alternative. Business and Social Practices

for

a

Dialogic Pedagogy.

Her

current

research

projects

focus on food

sovereignty

in

the Bolivarian Alliance and on 21st

century

socialism

in

Latin America.

Ken Cole. After

retiring

in

2006 from the School of

Development

Studies at

the

University

of East

Anglia,

where he had directed the MA Programme

in

Development

Studies,

and had worked

in El Salvador, Honduras,

Nicaragua,

Peru

and

Cuba

in the Americas

(as

well as countries

in

Africa,

the

Middle East

and

Europe,

including

South

Africa,

Palestine and Bosnia

Herzegovina),

Ken

was

appointed Honorary

Research Fellow at the International Institute for

the

Study

of Cuba at London

Metropolitan

University.

Since

1996,

after

delivering

a

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