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Anny Bakalian is Associate Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She is the co-author, with Mehdi Bozorgmehr, of Backlash 9/11: Impact and Response of Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans (U of California P, forthcoming). She has published extensively on Armenian Americans, including Armenian Americans: From Being to Feeling Armenian (Transaction, 1993) and the forthcoming edited volume A Century of Armenians in America: New Research in the Social Sciences. Bakalian serves on the boards of the Armenian Center at Columbia and of Alwan for the Arts (an organization that promotes the arts and culture of the Middle East), and is a founding President of TAMKEEN—Center for Arab American Empowerment.

Mehdi Bozorgmehr is Associate Professor of Sociology at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and founding Co-Director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the co-author, with Anny Bakalian, of Backlash 9/11: Impact and Response of Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans (U of California P, forthcoming) and the co-editor with Roger Waldinger of the award-winning Ethnic Los Angeles (Russell Sage, 1996). He has published more than fifty articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries. Grants from the National Science, Russell Sage, Mellon, and Sloan foundations have supported his research projects.

Robin Cohen is Professorial Fellow, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. He has previously served as Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick (1979–2007) and as Dean of Humanities at the University of Cape Town (2001–2003) and has held full-time teaching appointments at the universities of Ibadan (Nigeria), Birmingham, and the West Indies and sessional appointments at Stanford, Toronto, and Berkeley. He is editor of the Routledge series on Global Diasporas and of the Cambridge Survey of World Migration (1995). His books include Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1974, rev. 1982), Endgame in South Africa? (1986), The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour (1987, 1993, 2003), Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour [End Page 201] Studies (1991), Frontiers of Identity: The British and the Others (1994), Global Diasporas: An Introduction (1997, 1999, 2001, 2004, rev. 2008), Global Sociology (co-authored with Paul M. Kennedy; 2000co-authored with Paul M. Kennedy; 2001, rev. 2007), and Migration and Its Enemies (2006). He has edited or co-edited a further eighteen volumes, notably on the sociology and politics of developing areas, ethnicity, international migration, transnationalism, and globalization. His major works have been translated into Danish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Jerry Dávila is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. He is the author of more than twenty articles in English and Portuguese and of two books: Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945 (Duke UP, 2003), which was translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil as A Diploma Da Brancura: Raça e Política Social no Brasil, 1917–1945 (Editora UNESP, 2006); and O Brasil na Diáspora Africana: Pessoas e Idéias em Movimento (PUC Editora, 2007).

Bakirathi Mani is an associate professor in the Department of English at Swarthmore College. She is the author of half a dozen articles and book chapters, including “‘My Two Lives’: Diaspora, Immigration, and Globalization in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies,” in Ethnic Nationalisms: Narration, Race and Cultural Politics in Asian Societies from Independence to Globalization, edited by Robbie B.H. Goh (U of Hong Kong P, forthcoming 2008); “Moments of Identity,” in Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, edited by Rajini Srikanth and Sunaina Maira (Asian American Writers Workshop, 1996); “Queer Desis, Straight Films: Representations of South Asian Americans On and Off-Screen” (The Subcontinental, 2007); “Beauty Queens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transnational Modernities at the Miss India USA Pageant” (Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, 2006); and “Undressing the Diaspora,” in South Asian Women in the Diaspora, edited by Nirmal Puwar and Parvathi Raghuram (Berg, 2003).

Rafael Reyes-Ruiz is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Science...

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