Contributors
- Contributors
Fawzia Afzal-Khan is a professor of English at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Her most recent book is The PreOccupation of Postcolonial Studies, coedited with Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks (Duke University Press, 2000). She is currently completing her third book, “Alternative ‘Street’ Theatre and the Women’s Movement in Contemporary Pakistan and Its U.S. Diaspora,” of which this essay is a part, and is working on a memoir, “Sahelian: Growing Up with Girlfriends, Pakistani-Style.”
Samantha King is an assistant professor of physical education at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and researches the cultural politics of sport, leisure, and health. She is currently working on a monograph that traces the emergence of the volunteer as ideal citizen within the context of neoliberalism.
Toby Miller teaches at New York University and is on the Social Text editorial board.
Lok Siu is an assistant professor of anthropology and Asian/Pacific/American studies at New York University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Comparative American Cultures Program at Johns Hopkins University, where she plans to complete her manuscript on the transnational community formation of diasporic Chinese in Panama.
Melissa W. Wright is an assistant professor of geography and of women’s studies at Penn State University. Her research has focused primarily on the interplay between the production of cultural subjects and the reproduction of capitalist value in the industries located along the Mexico-U.S. border. She has also conducted research into similar processes in southern China. Recent publications include: “A Manifesto against Femicide” in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and “Desire and the Prosthetics of Supervision” in Cultural Anthropology.
George Yúdice is a professor of American studies and Spanish and Portuguese at New York University, as well as acting director of the American studies program, director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean studies, and director of the Privatization of Culture Project for Research on Cultural Policy. His most recent book, The Expediency of Culture, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Usha Zacharias is an assistant professor of communication at Westfield State College, Massachusetts. She is currently working on minority citizenship, community identity, and women’s agency based on her fieldwork with sanitation laborers in New Delhi, India.
