List of Contributors

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/intejcubastud.8.1.0134
• Published date: 01 April 2016
• Date: 01 April 2016
• Pages: 134-135

InternatIonal Journal of Cuban StudIeS 8.1 SprIng 2016

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

James A. Baer is a professor of history at the Alexandria Campus of Northern

Virginia Community College and a senior research fellow at the Council on

Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, DC. He is the author of several articles on

Argentine social history. He co-edited Cities of Hope: People, Protests, and

Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870–1930, with Ronn Pineo. His book,

Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina, published by the University of

Illinois Press is a transnational study of anarchists and their impact on both sides

of the Atlantic Ocean.

Jeffrey C. Barnett is professor of romance languages and Latin American and

Caribbean Studies program head at Washington and Lee University, Virginia,

USA. His area of specialisation includes cultural and literary studies of Spanish-

American narrative and poetry, with a regional emphasis on the Caribbean. He

has published articles in Latin America, the US, and Europe on Alejo Carpentier,

Eduardo Galeano, Miguel Barnet and Carlos Fuentes, among others.

Robert Huish is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University in the Department

of International Development Studies. His research encompasses approaches to

comprehensive development strategies in marginalised communities in Latin

America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia by employing activism and

direct engagement. He is the author of Where No Doctor Has Gone Before:

Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape (Wilfrid Laurier University Press,

2013).

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie is professor of history at Howard University, Washington,

DC. He teaches on slavery, emancipation, comparative methodology, and the

African Diaspora. He has written three books on these topics with plans for

three more.

John M. Kirk is professor of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University. He

is the author of 15 books on Cuba, the most recent of which is Healthcare with-

out Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism. For the past ten

years, his work has focused on Cuban medical cooperation in developing

countries.