Democracia en la región Andina: Diversidad y desafíos.  (Edited by Maxwell A. Cameron and Juan Pablo Luna).  Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2010.  Pp. 605. (Second edition published by Plural Editores, La Paz, Bolivia, February 2011).

Texts, Media, and Constituent Power: Latin America from ancient to modern times,” Canadian Journal of Latin American Studies. Vol. 35, no. 70, 2010, pp. 29-50.

The State of Democracy in the Andes: Introduction to a Thematic Issue,” Revista de Ciencia Política, Vol. 30, no 1, 2010, pp. 5-20.

El giro a la izquierda frustrado en el Perú: el caso de Ollanta Humala,” Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales.  Special anniversary issue, 2009, pp. 275-301.

Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg, eds. Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Lynne Rienner Publishers. July 2010.

"A Diplomatic Theater of the Absurd: Canada, the OAS, and the Honduran Coup,"
with Jason Tockman in Empire's Apprentice: Canada in Latin America, NACLA Report on the Americas, New York. May/June 2010.

"Latin America's Left Turns: An Introduction," Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2009 (with Jon Beasley-Murray and Eric Hershberg), pp. 319-330.

"Latin America's Left Turns: Beyond Good and Bad," Third World Quarterly, Vol. 30, no. 2, 2009, pp. 331-348.

"Canada's Engagement with Democracies in the Americas," (with Catherine Hecht), Canadian Foreign Policy, forthcoming in Vol. 14, issue 3, October 2008, pp. 11-28.

"Democracy without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru," in William C. Smith and Felipe Agüero, eds. New Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America: Actors, Institutions and Practices. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc. forthcoming July 2009. (Revised version of an article that first appeared in Latin American Politics and Society, 2003).

"Citizenship Deficits in Latin American Democracies." Convergencia: Revista de Ciencias Sociales 44 (2007).

"Endogenous Regime Breakdown: The Vladivideo and the Fall of Peru's Fujimori." In The Fujimori Legacy, edited by Julio Carrión. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Penn State University Press, 2006.

Cameron, Max and Tulia Falleti.  "Federalism and the Subnational Separation of Powers." Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 35 (2) (Spring 2005): 245-271.

Work in Progress: 

Project on reporting on the state of democracy in the Andean region, funded by the Glyn Berry Program in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada. See: http://blogs.ubc.ca/andeandemocracy/

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CANEL, Eduardo

last update 11/09

Institutional affiliation:  

• Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program and International Development Studies Program, York University  
• Director of CERLAC, CERLAC Fellow  

Contact: 

827 York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Tel: 416.736.2100 ext. 22038
Email: ecanel@yorku.ca
 

Research Interests: 

Social movement theory; participatory democracy; municipal politics; grassroots activism; sociology of sport.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: 

Uruguay.

Recent Publications: 

Barrio Democracy in Latin America. Participatory Decentralization and Community Activism in Montevideo. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press (forthcoming 2010).

 

(Co-editor) "Rethinking Extractive Industries: Regulation, Dispossession and Emerging Claims". Canadian Journal of Development Studies Revue canadienne d’études du développement XXX (1–2) 2010.

 

“Securing Human Rights and Democracy: What Role for Civil Society?” in Cohesión Social y Derechos Humanos, Ana Lucía Córdova Cazar y Francisco López-Bermúdez (eds.), Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2009.

 

“Uruguay’s Tilt Left? NACLA Report on the Americas, New York. Vol. 38, No.2, September/October 2004.

 

“Municipal Decentralization and Participatory Democracy: Building  a New Mode of Urban Politics in Montevideo City?” European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Amsterdam, October 2001 (25-46).

 

“Dos Modelos de Descentralizacion y Participacion en America Latina – Una Discusion Conceptual” in Mercados globales y gobernabilidad local: Retos para la descentralización en América Latina y el Caribe. Hans-Jürgen Burchardt and Haroldo Dilla (eds.). Caracas: Nueva Sociedad, 2001 (113-125).

Work in Progress: 

A book-length manuscript on the process of participatory urban governance in Montevideo, Uruguay, tentatively titled, Cities of Citizens? Experiments in Urban Democracy in Latin America.

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CLARK, Timothy David

last update 07/08

Institutional affiliation: 

• Ph.D Candidate in Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada
• CERLAC Research Associate

Contact: 

Email: tdclark@yorku.ca  

Research Interests: 

International political economy and development, state theory, the mining sector, food security, and indigenous peoples.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization: 

Latin America - Chile. .

Recent Publications: 

Clark, Timothy David. 2007. “La Economía Política de la Seguridad Alimentaria en unas Comunidades Mapuches de la Araucanía,” Cultura, Hombre, Sociedad 11: 13-25.

North, Liisa L., Timothy David Clark, and Viviana Patroni, eds. 2006. Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility. Toronto: Between the Lines Press (253 pages).

Clark, Timothy David and Liisa L. North. 2006. “Mining in Latin America: Lessons from the Past, Issues for the Future,” in Liisa L. North, Timothy David Clark, and Viviana Patroni (eds.) Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 1-16.

Clark, Timothy David. 2006. “Mining in Neoliberal Chile: Of Private Virtues and Public Vices,” in Liisa L. North, Timothy David Clark, and Viviana Patroni (eds.) Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America: Community Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 90-112.

Saa, René, Julio Gajardo, Tim Clark, Magaly Salinas y Ricardo Neupert. 2005. Chilenos en el Exterior: ¿Dónde Viven, Cuántos Son y Qué Hacen los Chilenos en el Exterior? Santiago de Chile: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (246 pages).

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CROSBY, Alison

last update 08/09

Institutional affiliation:  

• Assistant Professor, School of Women's Studies, York University
• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

823 York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736.2100 ext. 33691
Email: acrosby@yorku.ca

Research Interests:  

Transitional justice; reparation; gender-based violence; impunity; securitization of migration

Special activities:

2009-12 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Grant, Understanding women’s struggles for justice, healing and redress: A study of gender and reparation in postwar Guatemala

2009-10 International Development Research Centre (IDRC) research grant, Understanding women’s struggles for justice, healing and redress: A study of gender and reparation in postwar Guatemala

2008 IDRC Research Grant supporting the reactivation of the Women in Conflict Zones Network

2008 Faculty of Arts Research Grant Towards a Transnational Feminist Understanding of Transitional Justice Processes in Latin America

 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of  Specialization:

Guatemala.

Recent Publications:  

2009. “Anatomy of a Workshop: Women’s Struggles for Transformative Participation in Latin America.” Feminism & Psychology, 19 (3): 343-353. 2007.

“People on the Move: Challenging migration categorization.” Development 50 (4). December, pp.44-49. 2007.

“The Boundaries of Belonging: Reflections on Migration Policies into the 21st Century.” Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration. Vol. 29, June, pp.31-53. 2004. This paper was originally published as part of the Inter Pares Occasional Paper Series 7 (June 2006) (available in English, French and Spanish at www.interpares.ca).

“The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research Across Time in Guatemala.” Co-authored with Cathy Blacklock. In Sites of Violence: Gender and Identity in Conflict Zones. Edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman. Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 45-72.

“People on the Move: Challenging Migration Categorization.” Development 50(4) (December 2007).

Work in Progress:  

• Understanding women's struggles for justice, healing and redress: A study of gender and reparation in postwar Guatemala: This is a new research project examining the nature and forms of reparation for women survivors of sexual violence during the 36-year long armed conflict in Guatemala, within a context of ongoing structural impunity, militarism, and gender-based violence.  

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CZERNY, Michael S.J.

last update 01/08

Institutional affiliation:  

• Coordinator: African Jesuit AIDS Network
• CERLAC Honorary Fellow

Contact:

African Jesuit AIDS Network
P.O. Box 571 Sarit,
00606 Nairobi, KENYA
Tel: +254-20-201-3541
Fax:  +254-20-387-79711
Email: mczerny@jesuits.ca

Research Interests:  

HIV/AIDS and related illnesses, poverty, human rights, human development, social justice, Christian Social Teaching, inter-religious dialogue and co-operation.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Worked on Latin American issues in Canada for ten years (1978-1989) and in El Salvador for two years (1990-1991), Latin America remains a great interest. Current work on AIDS in some 30 countries of Africa where Jesuits are present.

Special activities:  

• Coordinator of the African Jesuit AIDS Network

Recent Publications:  

Czerny, Michael and Bénézet Bujo. AIDS in Africa: Theological Reflections. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007.

Linked for Life: African Jesuit AIDS Network. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2007.

Catholic Bishops of Africa and Madagascar Speak out on HIV & AIDS, 2004.

Rays of Hope: Managing HIV & AIDS in Africa, 2004.

Work in Progress:  

• Monthly e-bulletin AJANews about AIDS work of Jesuits in Africa. Available in English, French and Portuguese and is available free of charge. To subscribe: ajanews@jesuits.ca 
• Visit www.jesuitaids.net
• AJAN usually helps to publish 3-4 books on AIDS in Africa each year.

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DAVIES, Matt 

last update 09/05

Institutional affiliation:

• Lecturer, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

Email: jmd22@psu.edu

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Chile, Brazil.

Research Interests:  

International Political Economy; Culture and the Critique of Everyday Life; Latin American Labour Movements and Politics.

Recent Publications:  

"The Public Spheres of Unprotected Workers."  Global Society 19 (2), April 2005.  pp. 131-154.  

The Production of the International: Global Spaces and Everyday Life, with Michael Niemann, forthcoming from Routledge, RIPE series.

"Review of The Everyday Life Reader, edited by Ben Highmore", European Journal of Cultural Studies, forthcoming.

"The everyday spaces of global politics: work, leisure, and family", with Michael Niemann, New Political Science 24:4, December 2002, pp. 557-577.  

"The Politics of Globo-ization: Brazilian Television and the Internationalization of the State," The South Eastern Latin Americanist 46:1, 2, Summer and Fall 2002, pp. 62-83.

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DAVIS, Andrea 

last update 04/08

Institutional affiliation:  

• CERLAC Fellow  
• Professor, Division of Humanities, York University
• Associate, Caribbean Religions Project

Contact:  

824 York Research Tower
4700 Keele Street
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
(416) 736.2100 ext. 33320
Email: aadavis@yorku.ca
Website: www.arts.yorku.ca/huma/aadavis

Research Interests:  

Caribbean, African American and black Canadian literatures, history and theatre; postcolonial and diaspora studies; and black cultural and feminist studies.

Special Activities  

• CERLAC Executive Committee  
• Jagan Lectures Planning committee  
• Board Member, Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada

Recent Publications:  

“Rearticulations, Reconnections and Refigurations: Writing Africa Through the Americas.” In Africa and its Diasporas: History, Memory and Literary Manifestations, edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy and David V. Trotman. Trenton, New Jersey and Asmara Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2008, 293-308.

“A Feminist Exploration in African Canadian Literature.” In Multiple Lenses: Voices From the Diaspora Located in Canada, edited by David Divine. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, 250-261.

“Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne.” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Diasporic Pasts and Futures: Transnational Cultural Studies in Canada, ed. Jenny Burman, 17 (spring 2007): 31-49.

“Translating Narratives of Masculinity Across Borders: A Jamaican Case Study.” Caribbean Quarterly, Unraveling Gender, Development and Civil Society in the Caribbean, eds. Taitu Heron and Hilary Nicholson, 52 (2-3) (June-Sept. 2006): 22-38.

“We Have Historically Been ‘Rooted’ in/Routed to this Place and we are Here to Stay: Women’s Voices in Black Canadian Literature.” NEW DAWN: Journal of Black Canadian Studies 1 (1) (Spring 2006): 68-74.

“Sex and the Nation: Performing Black Female Sexuality in Canadian Theatre.” African-Canadian Theatre.  Ed. Maureen Moynagh. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005. 107-122.

“Diaspora, Citizenship and Gender: Challenging the Myth of the Nation in African Canadian Women’s Literature”, Canadian Woman Studies 23:2, 2004, pp. 64-69.

 “Rewriting Calypso as Feminist Discourse: Jean and Dinah ‘Take Over Now.’” Scholarly Introduction to Jean and Dinah by Tony Hall in Testyfyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama: Vol. II. Ed. Djanet Sears.  Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2003. 151-154.

“Healing in the Kitchen: Women’s Performance as Rituals of Change.”  Scholarly Introduction to sistahs by maxine bailey and sharon m. lewis in Testifyin’: Contemporary African Canadian Drama: Volume I.  Ed. Djanet Sears.  Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2000. 279-280.

Work in Progress:  

“Hegemony of the Spirit: Community and Healing in Caribbean and African American Women’s Writing.”

This full-length book study is a comparative study that recognizes the formal and thematic linkages connecting the fictional writings of black women in the Caribbean and the United States. The study argues that these linkages constitute an important shared literary poetics and form part of a tradition of black women's writing in the African diaspora. 

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DE BARROS, Juanita

last update 12/11

Institutional affiliation:  

• CERLAC Associate Fellow  
• Assistant Professor, Department of History, McMaster University

Contact:  

Department of History
McMaster University
613 Chester New Hall
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada  L8S 4M2

Email: debarr@mcmaster.ca
Tel: (905) 525-9140, ext. 24149 

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

British Caribbean; Atlantic World 

Research Interests:

urban history and the social history of health and medicine in the 19th and 20th century English-speaking Caribbean

Special Activities:

• Messecar Professor at McMaster University
• Council Member, Canadian Historical Association, 2009-2112
• former Dubois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow at the Center for African American and African Studies at the University of Michigan

Recent Publications:

“Introduction to British Guiana,” in The Marcus Garvey University Negro Improvement Association Papers, ed. Robert Hill. 2 ms pp (forthcoming)

 

(Co-edited with Steven Palmer and David Wright), Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968. New York: Routlege, 2009.

 

“Introduction,” in eds. De Barros, Palmer, and Wright, Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968. New York: Routlege, 2009. 1-18 pp.

 

“Dispensers, Obeah, and Quackery: Medical Rivalries in Post-Slavery British Guiana.” Social History of Medicine 20 (2007): 243-261.

 

Co-editor (with Audra Diptee and David Trotman). Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History. Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers, 2006. 299 pp.

“’Working Cutlass and Shovel’: Labour and Redemption at the Onderneeming School in British Guiana.”  In Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-emanicipation Caribbean, edited by G. Heuman and D. Trotman.  London: Macmillan, 2005.  

 

“Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers.”  In Master and Servant: Uses of the Law, edited by P. Craven and D. Hay.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.  

 

“’Setting Things Right’: Medicine and Magic in British Guiana, 1803-1834.”  Slavery and Abolition 25(1) (April 2004): 28-50.

 

Work in Progress:

SSRHC-supported research project on “Urban Reform in the British Caribbean, 1900-1940.”

 

Book manuscript tentatively titled “Reproducing the Race: Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Reproduction in the Post-slavery British Caribbean.”

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DE VILLA, Maria Luisa

last update 11/06

Institutional affiliation:  

• CERLAC Associate Fellow
• Member, Women's Art Resource Centre
• Member, Enlace Community Link Inc.

Contact:  

50 Belvedere Dr.
Oakville, ON 
L6L 4B6  Canada

Tel: (905) 827-3668
Fax: (905) 825-6465
Email: mldevilla28@hotmail.com

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:

Mexico, Canada.

Research Interests:  

Mexican flora, icons, symbols and myths; Mexican art history; Guadalupan iconography; artists Frida Kahlo and Francisco Toledo.

Special Activities:  

• Visual artist, curator, organizer of exhibits and multidisciplinary art events.

Recent Publications:  

Santa Maria de Guadalupe: imagen mexicana en la pintura, Masters thesis, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 2000.

"Frida Kahlo," in Indigo Magazine, Toronto, Canada, 1995.

Work in Progress: 

• Three-year visual art project in Mexico involving large-scale works on handmade paper and collaboration with indigenous communities.  
• Coordinating Ofrenda Flora, a travelling group exhibit of Mexican and Canadian art being shown in both countries (2002-2003).

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DEONANDAN, Kalowatie 

last update 06/09

Institutional affiliation:  

• Associate Professor, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan  
• CERLAC Associate Fellow  

Contact:  

Department of Political Studies 
University of Saskatchewan 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada S7N 5A5  

Phone: (306) 966-2167 / 5208
Fax: (306) 966-5250
Email: k.deonandan@usask.ca

Website

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. Foreign Policy 

Special activities:  

• 2004 to present, Member of Editorial Board of Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CJLACS)
• Coordinator, University of Saskatchewan Latrin American Semester Abroad

Recent Publications:  

"The Emerging Economies and Caribbean Economic Development: The Case of Guyana's Megaprojects." In The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues and Challenges, eds. Raymond Izarali and Priti Singh. New Delhi: Shipra Publications. Forthcoming, Fall 2011.

Revolutionaries to Politicians: Case Studies from Latin America and Africa, with David Close and Gary Prevost, eds., (New York: Palgrave,  2007).

Undoing Democracy: The Politics of Electoral Caudillismo in Nicaragua, with David Close, eds.,  (Lexington Books, 2004).

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DIAZ, Harry 

last update 09/11

Institutional affiliation:  

• Full-Time Faculty, Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina  
• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

Sociology and Social Studies 
University of Regina 
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada S4S 0A2  

Phone: (306) 585-415

Fax: (306) 585-4815
Email: harry.diaz@uregina.ca

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Chile, Costa Rica, Argentina. 

Special activities:  

• Member of the SSHRC Committee 410-09 for the 2009 Standard Research Grants competition (2008)
• Member of the Executive Committee, Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2002-2006)
• Member of the Board of Directors, Regina Open Door Society (2000-2007)
  

Recent Publications:  

(Forthcoming) The Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate, CPRC Press, Regina (with D. Sauchyn and S. Kulshreshta as co-editors).

 

2009, “Climate Change and Water Governance in Saskatchewan, Canada”,
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 3, (with M. Hurlbert, D. Corkal, and J. Warren as co-authors)

 

2009, “Rural Community and Vulnerability to Climate Change: Case Studies of Cabri and Stewart Valley in Southwestern Saskatchewan” Prairie Forum, 34,1 (with S. Kulshreshtha, B. Matlock, E. Wheaton and V. Wittrock as co-authors).

 

2009, “Institutional Adaptive Capacity: Water Governance in the South Saskatchewan River Basin”, Prairie Forum, 34, 1 (with D. Corkal and M. Hurlbert as co-authors).

 

2009, Integration Report. The Case of the South Saskacthewan River Basin, Canada, IACC Project Document. Available online: www.parc.ca/mcri

 

2009, Saskatchewan Governance Assessment Final Report, IACC Project Document, available online: www.parc.ca/mcri/pdfs/papers/gov01.pdf

 

2007, The Great Sand Hills Regional Environmental Study. Final Report, May. Published by CPRC, Regina (with B. Cecil, D. Gauthier, P. James, B. Noble, and R. Noss as co-authors).

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DIPTEE, Audra

last update 09/11

Institutional affiliation:   Associate Professor, Department of History, Carleton University  CERLAC Associate Fellow Research affiliate, Harriet Tubman Institute

Contact:  

Department of History, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa K1S 5B6  

Phone: 613-520-2600 x 4203
Email: audra_diptee@carleton.ca

Webpage

Research Interests:

Various topics related to the Caribbean including slavery, the history of children & childhood, and Indo-Afro relations in the Caribbean.

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:   

Anglo Caribbean – primarily Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana.

Work in progress:

I am working on several projects including one which looks at Indo-Afro race-relations in the Caribbean. I am also working on another project that looks at the letters of slave traders who brought enslaved Africans to the British Caribbean.

Special activities:

Book Review Editor & Founding Editor, H-CARIBBEAN, Caribbean Studies discussion list,
affiliated with H-Net, Michigan State University.

Honors:  

• 2011 Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University
• 2010 SSHRC Workshop Grant, Remembering Africa and Its Diasporas
• 2006 Faculty Appreciation Award, Carleton University Students’ Association.
• 2003 David Nicholls Memorial Prize, Society of Caribbean Studies [UK]

Recent Publications:  

Remembering Africa & Its Diasporas:  Memory, Public History & Representations of the Past— withDavid V. Trotman.  In press. (African World Press, forthcoming 2012)

From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of An Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807 (University Press of Florida, 2010).

‘Children in Colonial Africa.’ Special Issue in the Journal of Family History – co-edited with Martin A. Klein. (January 2010).

Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives in Caribbean History, (New Jersey: Markus Weiner Publishers, 2006). – co-edited with Juanita De Barros and David Trotman.

 

 

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DUNCAN, Carol B.

last update 09/05

Institutional affiliation:  

• Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University
• CERLAC Associate Fellow  

Contact:  

Dept. of Religion and Culture
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5

Phone: (519) 884-0710 ext. 3692
Fax: (519) 884-9387
Email: cduncan@wlu.ca

Research Interests:  

Spiritual Baptist Faith, African Diasporan Science Fiction, Religion and Film, Sociology of Religion

Special Activities:  

• Chair, Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University
• Executive Committee Member, Black Religious Scholars Group of the American Academy of Religion
• Executive Committee Member, Society for the Study of Black Religion

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Caribbean, Caribbean Diaspora in Canada

Recent Honours:

• Wabash Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Grant, “Being Black/Teaching Black: An African-American Dialogue Concerning the Influences of Blackness in Theological Education Teaching Practices,” co-investigator, Lynne Westfield, project director.  Awarded May 2003.  Duration: September 2003 – August 2005.
• Louisville Institute Grant, “Making it Plain: Doing Theology in Black Community,” consultant, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, project director, $28,000USD.  Awarded April 2003.  Duration:  May 2003 – August 2006.
• Wilfrid Laurier University Award for Teaching Excellence (2004)
• Faculty of Arts Teaching Scholar Award, Wilfrid Laurier University (2004)

Recent Publications:  

“Hard Labour: Religion, Sexuality and the Pregnant Body in the African Diasopora.”  Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering  7(1) (2005): 167-73.  

“Patriarchy and Matriarchy.”  In Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeill et al.  Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004.  

“Spiritual Baptists in Multicultural Canada.”  In Whither Multiculturalism? A Politics of Dissensus, edited by B.A.C. Saunders and D. Haljan.  Leuven: Leuven UP (2003):  205-24. 

“Women, Religion and Identity in the African Diaspora,” Making Waves: An Ecumenical Feminist Journal. Toronto: Women’s Inter-Church Council, forthcoming, Summer 2002.  

“Mothers of the Church: Motherhood and Identity in the Toronto Spiritual Baptist Church/Madres de la Iglesia: la maternidad y la identidad en la iglesia espiritual bautista en el Toronto,” Del Caribe 39, Santiago de Cuba: Casa del Caribe, November 2002.

Work in Progress:  

• Black Church Studies: An Introduction, co-author with Juan Floyd-Thomas, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Stephen G. Ray and N. Lynne Westfield.  Abingdon Pres (forthcoming 2007)

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DURAN, Claudio

 last update 11/09

Institutional affiliation:  

• Senior Scholar & Professor Emeritus, York University  
• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

Email: cduran@yorku.ca

Research Interests:  

Ideology, Propaganda and Argumentation in the Chilean Press.  

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Chile

Special Activities:

• will be teaching a graduate course at the University of Chile, October-December 2006

• several upcoming conferences in Holland and Chile during 2006

Recent Publications:  

“Revisiting Emotional Arguments in the Context of Western Culture”, paper read at the OSSA (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation) International Conference, University of Windsor, June, 2009.

Workshop on Approaches to Content Analysis of the Press, eight two-hours sessions. Instituto de Comunicación e Imagen, Universidad de Chile, November-December 2007.

“Bi-Logic and Multi-Modal Argumentation: Understanding Emotional Arguments”, paper read at the OSSA (Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation) International Conference, University of Windsor, June, 2007.

“Analysis of arguments in political propaganda: The case of the Chilean press 1970-1973”. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard, Bart Garssen (editors). Sic Sat 2007, International Center for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, 2007 (pages 359-366).

“Edad y 14 Poemas”. La voz y la memoria. Luis A. Torres y Luciano Díaz, editores. RiL editores, Santiago, Chile, 2009.

La Infancia y los Exilios/Childhood and Exile, La Cita Trunca/Split Quotation, Ottawa, April, 2008 (this bilingual book involves three long poems one of which corresponds to the above book published in Chile in 2006).

La Infancia y los Exilios, Cuarto Propio, Santiago, Chile, 2006.

Recent Honors:

2008 Teaching Award, University category, Asociación de
Profesores Hispano-Canadienses.

2004 Atkinson Faculty Alumni Association Teaching Award.

 

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DURSTON, Alan

 last update 09/10

Institutional affiliation:  

• Associate Professor, History, York University  
• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

2126 Vari Hall, York University

Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 66962

Email: durston@yorku.ca

Departmental webpage

Research Interests:  

Latin American history and anthropology; Peru; indigenous peoples; language politics   

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Peru

Recent Publications:  

Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550-1650. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN), 2007.

“Apuntes para una historia de los himnos quechuas del Cuzco” [Notes on the History of the Quechua Hymns of Cuzco]. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena 42:1 (2010), 147-155.

“Native-Language Literacy in Colonial Peru: The Question of Mundane Quechua Writing Revisited.” The Hispanic American Historical Review 88:1 (2008), 41-70.

“Notes on the Authorship of the Huarochirí Manuscript.” Colonial Latin American Review 16:2 (2007), 227-241.

Recent Honors:

Daniel F. Nugent Dissertation Prize for 2004, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago (2005).

Received Fulbright Hays, National Science Foundation, and Wenner Gren grants for dissertation research, 2000-2002

Work in Progress:

“The Social History of Quechua Letters: Modern Peru, 1900-1975.” Book-length research project.

 

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DWYER, Asheda

 last update 01/11

Institutional affiliation:  

• MA candidate, Social and Political Thought, York University  
• CERLAC Research Associate

Contact:  

York University

4700 Keele Street

York Research Tower

Phone: 647-285-7840

Email: d.asheda@gmail.ca

Research Interests:  

Political Science, Philosophy, Post-Colonial and Cultural Studies  

Country(ies) or Region(s) of Specialization:  

Caribbean; Jamaica

Recent Awards:

2009 York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship

2007 Jamaican Canadian Association: Marcus Garvey Award

2006 York University: Esiri Dafiewhare Scholarship

2005 Queen Elizabeth: Aiming for the Top Scholarship

2004 Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Community Volunteer Award

2003 City of Toronto: Black History Month Award

Work in Progress:

Working MRP Title: “The Politics of Chanting Down Babylon:

Rethinking the 1960 Reports on the Rastafar-I Movement Fifty Years Later”

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ESPINET, Ramabai

 last update 07/02

Institutional affiliation:  

• Full-Time Faculty, School of General Education, Seneca College  
• CERLAC Fellow  

Contact:  

School of General Education
Seneca College, 1750 Finch Avenue East
North York, Ontario Canada  M2J 2X5  

Phone: (416) 491-5050 ext. 4529
Fax: (416) 533-7731
Email: ramabai.espinet@senecac.on.ca

Research Interests: 

Post-colonial studies; feminist theory; Latin American and Caribbean studies; Diasporic studies; Creative writing; African-American literature.

Special Activities: 

• Member, Jagan Lectures Planning Committee

Recent Publications: 

The Swinging Bridge, Harper-Collins, 2003.  

"Daughters of Indenture: History, Memory, Voice", in Matikor, Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton (ed.), Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1997.  

"Interview" by Frank Birbalsingh, in Indo-Caribbean Migration, Toronto: TSAR, 1997.

"Midnight Robbers, Borokits and Other Renegades", Modern Fiction Studies, Spring, 1998.

See "CoolWomen" profile of Ramabai.

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