List of Contributors

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.9.2.0276
• Pages: 276-277
• Published date: 01 December 2017
• Date: 01 December 2017

InternatIonal Journal of Cuban StudIeS 9.2 WInter 2017

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Yeney Acea Valdés currently teaches Patent and Trademark Law at the University

of Havana. Her most recent publication is ‘Intellectual Property system and tra-

ditional knowledge protection. Necessary notes’ (Alegatos Magazine, Number

94, 2016). She is presently working in a book on the legal protection of patents

and trademarks in Cuba.

Alessandro Badella earned a PhD in Political Science at the University of Genoa

(Italy), with a project on US external democracy promotion (EDP) in Cuba. He

has published two books in Italian and several articles on international journals

about US–Cuba relations after the Cold War.

Karl Besel is the Assistant Dean and Director of the School of Public and

Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Northwest. His latest book

publication is Passing the Torch: Planning for the Next Generation of Public-

Service Leaders (with Charlotte Williams), University of Arkansas Press.

Patrick Calmon de Carvalho Braga recently completed his undergraduate stud-

ies at Cornell University, earning a degree in Urban and Regional Studies and

another in Music (summa cum laude) and Economics.

Al Campbell is a retired Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of

Utah and a member of the editorial board of this journal. His current research

interests focus on the functioning of contemporary capitalism, and the theory

and practice of more humane alternatives. The Cuban economy has been one of

his central research areas for the past three decades. He is editor of Cuban

Economists on the Cuban Economy, Gainesville, University Press of Florida,

2013.

Laurence Goodchild has an MA in International Studies from Oxford Brookes

University and is Deputy Features Editor of E-International Relations (www.

eir.info).

Yoan Karell Acosta González completed his PhD in Linguistics in 2013, with a

dissertation on Critical Discourse Analysis. He is a Professor at Havana