Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Anthony Alessandrini is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University in Ohio. He is the editor of Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives (Routledge 1999) and author of a dozen articles, such as "Reading Bharati Mukherjee, Reading Globalization," in A. Kumar, Ed. World Bank Literature (U Minnesota P, 2002) and "Here and There: South Asia in Postcoloniality" (Passages, Spring 2000).
Ali Behdad is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is the author of The Forgetful Nation: Reflections on Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (forthcoming, Duke UP, 2003) and of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (Duke UP, 1994; published in Europe by Cork UP of Ireland). He edited a special issue of L'Esprit devoted to the topic of "Orientalism beyond 'Orientalism'" in 1994. Behdad is also the author of over twenty articles. One of them appeared in Diaspora (1997), dealing with nationalism and immigration; others explore such topics as nineteenth-century Qajar-dynasty photography in Iran and the founding myths of the nation.
Chan Kwok-bun is Professor of Sociology, Head of Department, and Director of the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of over forty articles and book chapters and of Smoke and Fire: The Chinese in Montreal (in English, Hong Kong Chinese UP, 1991; in Chinese, Beijing UP, 2001) and the co-author (with C. Chiang) of Stepping Out: The Making of Chinese Entrepreneurs (in English, Prentice Hall-Singapore / National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced Studies, 1994; in Chinese, China Social Sciences Publishing, 1996). He has edited or co-edited ten books, including Chinese Business Networks (Prentice Hall / Copenhagen Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2000).
Clarissa Clo is writing her dissertation, "Italy in the World and the World in Italy: Tracing Alternative Cultural Trajectories," at the Literature Department of the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of several forthcoming articles, including an essay in Studies in Literature on Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy and an essay in a volume edited by Robert Cancel and Winifred Woodhull on the film "The Battle of Algiers."
Teresa Fiore received her PhD from the Literature Department of the University of California, San Diego in June 2002, with a dissertation titled "Preoccupied Spaces: Re-configuring the Italian Nation through Its Migrations." She will begin teaching next year at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of two book reviews.
Donna Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte but will be moving to the University of Pittsburgh later in 2003. She is the author of five books and of a multidisciplinary annotated bibliography on women's immigration to the US; she has co-edited five other books and published some forty articles and book chapters. Among her books are Immigration and American Diversity (Blackwell, 2002); Italy's Many Diasporas (UCL / U Washington P, 2000); We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (Harvard UP, 1998); and Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (Rutgers UP, 1988).
Tong Chee-kiong teaches in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, where he has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Graduate School. He is the co-author (with Eddie C.Y. Kuo) of Religion in Singapore (1995), the co-author (with K.F. Lian) of The Making of Singapore Sociology (1993), and (with K.B. Chan) of Alternate Identities: The Chinese in Contemporary Thailand (2001) and Past Times: A Social History of Singapore (Singapore Times Editions, 2002), as well as of numerous articles on migration, cultural geography, ethnicity, religion, and Chinese business networks in Southeast Asia.
Juliet Williams is Assistant Professor in the Law and Society Program, as well as in the Women's Studies Program, at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (forthcoming, Duke UP, 2003) and of articles such as "The Delegation Dilemma" (Policy Studies Review, 2000). She is currently working on a book manuscript titled...
