Tobias Hecht

Tobias Hecht is a freelance writer, editor, and literary translator, he has won research awards from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities LeGrace Benson is Director of the Arts of Haiti Research Project and Professor Emeritus at the State University of afficher plus New York Carolyn Dean is Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz Ondina E. Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of History at Reinhardt College Donna J. Guy is Professor of History at Ohio State University Tobias Hecht is an independednt scholar. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities award for independent scholars, he received his B.A., M.I.A., and Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Iberian Studies from Columbia University and his doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Professor of Latin American history at Carleton University Nara Milanich is a graduate student and Mellon Fellow in Latin American History at Yale University Cristina Peri Rossi was born and raised in Uruguay but has resided in Spain since she went into exile in 1972. She has published more than twenty books -- novels, poetry, short stories, and one collection of essays -- and been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Premio Benito Perez Galdos Anna L. Peterson is Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida Bianca Premo, Assistant Professor of History at Emory University Kay Almere Read is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University Irene Rizzini is Director of the Center for Research on Childhood of the University of Santa Ursula and Professor at the Department of Social Policy at the Rio de Janeiro State University Bruna Verissimo has lived in the streets of Recife, in Northeast Brazil, since the age of nine. Although she never went to school as a child, she learned to read and write on her own by studying street signs. She is also a self-taught artist. With support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, she is currently working on an ethnographic research project about life in the streets of Recife afficher moins