Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz teaches anthropology at the University of Modena, Italy. Her fieldwork in Brazil has explored racism and sexism in national identity and reproductive health, racial classification in medical documents, feminist and black movements, whiteness and social privilege. In Italy, she has worked on migration, racism and sexism. She has published several books and articles on these issues. Her ongoing research focuses on sexual violence against domestic workers in Brazil.
Chuck Sturtevant works as a documentary filmmaker and researcher in Bolivia, focusing on indigenous economic practices and the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship in the country’ lowlands. He holds an MPhil in Ethnographic Documentary from the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Aberdeen’s Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law. His most recent film, Habilito: Debt for Life, is available from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Nathalie Koc-Menard received her PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor and worked as Research Associate at the Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge University, between 2011 and 2013. At present she is a Lecturer at the Universidad Catolica del Peru, where she studies rural Quechua communities and the ways in which they are discriminated through the use of categories like “marginality”, which have become race euphemisms in the discourses of the state, NGOs and social science researchers.
Sarah Quesada is an advanced doctoral candidate in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She specializes in Luso-Hispanic, Afro-Caribbean and U.S. Latino/a literature and film. A recipient of the Center for Africa Studies Research Fellowship for fieldwork in West Africa, her dissertation focuses on the negotiation and uneven distribution of transatlantic memory.
Emilio del Valle Escalante (K’iche’ Maya, Iximulew) is associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala (School for Advanced Research, 2009).