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Expert Directory
The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".
Meredith E. Abarca
Born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Meredith E. Abarca moved with her family to the United States as a young child. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Contact
Email: mabarca at utep.edu
George Borjas
George Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Borjas’s research on the economic impact of immigration is widely perceived as playing a central role in the debate over immigration policy in the United States and abroad. Business Week and the Wall Street Journal, in a front-page feature article, have called him "America’s leading immigration economist." He has appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news shows of CBS and NBC, the Fox News Network's O'Reilly Factor and Fox and Friends, and Ben Wattenberg's Think Tank.
Bibliography: Friends or Strangers: The Impact of Immigrants on the U.S. Economy, Labor Economics, and Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy.
Contact
Web: http://www.borjas.com/
Email: gborjas at harvard.edu
Phone: 617-495-1393
R. Douglas Cope
Associate Professor of History at Brown University,
R. Douglas Cope teaches courses on colonial Latin America, the early modern Atlantic world, Mexico, and Guatemala. His book, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720 (Wisconsin, 1994) examines the economic lives of the urban poor in the colonial era.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Tom DeMott
Tom DeMott is a travel writer who lives in San Francisco. His work has appeared in many publications, including the San Francisco Observer and Clubmex. His travel narrative about Zapotec women and their society, Into the Hearts of the Amazons: In Search of a Modern Matriarchy, was published by Terrace Books (2006).
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Rubén Gallo
Rubén Gallo,Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University, researches and writes about Mexican art and literature at Princeton University. His publications include The Mexico City Reader (Wisconsin, 2004; published in Spanish as México DF: Lecturas para paseantes, Turner, 2005) and New Tendencies in Mexican Art: the 1990s (Palgrave, 2004).
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Rigoberto González
An acclaimed poet, memoirist, and fiction writer, Rigoberto González is the child of Mexican migrant workers. His memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposo, is one of the few English-language autobiographies by a Gay Latino author. He is also the author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series, and of Other Fugitives and Other Strangers. A recipient of Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships and of several international artist residencies, he has also written two children's picture books, a literary biography, and an award-winning novel, Crossing Vines. He is on the Advisory Circle of Con Tinta—a coalition of Chicano/Latino activist writers.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Peter Hakim
Peter Hakim is the president of the Inter-American Dialogue.
See also: Robert E. Litan
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Nick Henck
Nick Henck is Visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Keio University in Japan. He is the author of Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask coming from Duke University Press in July 2007.
Contact
Phone: 011-81-045-566-1234
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Title/affiliation: Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University
Biography: Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Professor Hu-DeHart has written two books on the Yaqui Indians, including Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1920 (Wisconsin, 1984). Her current research focuses on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Gilbert Joseph
Gilbert M. Joseph is Farnam Professor of History and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale University. He is coeditor of The Mexico Reader: History Culture Politics, Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico, and Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of U.S.–Latin American Relations (published by Duke University Press).
Contact
Email: gilbert.joseph at yale.edu
Phone: 203-432-1380
Sarah LeVine
Title/affiliation: Associate, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Biography: Sarah Levine is the author (with Clara Sunderland Correa) of Dolor y Alegría: Women and Social Change in Urban Mexico (Wisconsin, 1993). The book explores the experiences of three generations of working and lower-middle class Mexican women and their efforts to redefine themselves in the family and the workplace.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Santiago Levy
Santiago Levy is former general director of the Mexican Social Security Institute. From 1994 to 200, he served as deputy minister of finance in Mexico and was the main architect of the Progresa-Oportunidades program.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Robert E. Litan
Robert E. Litan is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. He has authored and edited numerous books, including, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale UP, 2007), written with William J. Baumol and Carl J. Schramm and Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade (Brookings, 1998) with Gary Burtless, Robert Z. Lawrence, and Robert Shapiro.
See also: Peter Hakim
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Nora Lustig
Nora Lustig is the President of the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico. Previously Dr. Lustig was the Senior Advisor and Chief of the Poverty and Inequality Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank and a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Jaime Manrique
Title/affiliation: Associate Professor, Masters in Fine Arts Program, Columbia University
Biography: Jaime Manrique is the award-winning author of the memoir Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me (Wisconsin, 1999). He recently translated, along with poet Joan Larkin, the love poems of the seventeenth-century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Sor Juana’s Love Poems (Wisconsin, 2003), presents the exquisite poems written by this visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Joan Peterson
Joan Peterson is an experienced, world-wide traveler. She and her husband have led tours to the Pacific Rim, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia. Their book, Eat Smart in Mexico: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure (Gingko Press, 2005) provides in-depth information for travelers seeking to get to the heart of Mexican culture through its cuisine.
Contact
Publicist, University of Wisconsin Press
Phone: (608) 263-0734
Email: publicity at uwpress.wisc.edu
Douglas W. Richmond and Sam W. Haynes
Douglas W. Richmond is professor emeritus in history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his PhD from the University of Washington. Sam W. Haynes is a professor of history and director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. His PhD is from the University of Houston.
Contact
Email: richmond at uta.edu; haynes at uta.edu
Barbara Stallings
Barbara Stallings is William R. Rhodes Research Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and coauthor (with Wilson Peres) of Growth, Employment, and Equity: The Impact of Economic Reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean (Brookings, 2000).
See also: Rogerio Studart
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
Rogerio Studart
Rogerio Studart is executive director for Brazil at the Inter-American Development Bank and author of Investment Finance in Economic Development (Routledge, 1995).
See also: Barbara Stallings
Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611
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