Professor Bridget Brereton
University of the West Indies
Department of History, St. Augustine Campus,
Trinidad & Tobago

Professor Bridget Brereton is Professor of History at the St Augustine campus of UWI. The author of several books on Trinidad & Tobago and Caribbean history, and the editor of many others, including Volume V of the UNESCO General History of the Caribbean (The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century). A specialist in the post-emancipation social history of the Caribbean. A past President of the Association of Caribbean Historians, a former Head of the Department of History, and a former Deputy Principal, of the St Augustine Campus. The first woman to win the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (1996).

Professor Jorge Duany
Universidad de Puerto Rico//University of Puerto Rico
Departamento de Sociologia y Anthropologia//Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Puerto Rico

Dr. Jorge Duany is Chair and Professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. He has been named the Bacardí Family Eminent Scholar in Latin American Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville for spring 2007. He previously served as Director of the journal Revista de Ciencias Sociales; as Visiting Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Michigan; and as Assistant Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, with a concentration in anthropology, at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Psychology from Columbia University. Dr. Duany has published extensively on Caribbean migration, ethnicity, race, nationalism, and transnationalism in major academic journals and professional books in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. His current work is a coedited volume tentatively titled U.S. Racialization of Latina/os: At Home and Abroad. His latest book is The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States (2002). He is the coauthor of Cubans in Puerto Rico: Ethnic Economy and Cultural Identity (1997) and El Barrio Gandul: Economía subterránea y migración indocumentada en Puerto Rico (1995). He is also the author of Quisqueya on the Hudson: The Transnational Identity of Dominicans in Washington Heights (1994). Since February 2003, he writes a monthly editorial column for the newspaper El Nuevo Día.