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Jorge Giovannetti, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
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Tara Inniss, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
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David Geggus, Prof. em., University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Barry Higman, Prof. em., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Rebecca Scott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Deborah Thomas, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Rosemarijn Hoefte is a historian specialized in the Caribbean. She is Professor in the history of Suriname after 1873 in comparative perspective at the University of Amsterdam. Her main research interests are the history of postabolition Suriname, migration and unfree labor, and contemporary Caribbean history. Her current projects are ‘Departing from Java’, ‘Empire and Transnationalism’, and a study of Surinamese social activist and politician Grace Schneiders-Howard.

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Published continuously since 1919, the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean, featuring English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, music, political science and sociology, and includes the world's most complete review section on Caribbean books - covering some 150 books each year. NWIG is a peer-reviewed journal and regularly publishes contributions by authors in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, England, Germany, Guyana, the Netherlands, Suriname, the United States, and Venezuela, as well as every part of the insular Caribbean.

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