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Diaspora 12:1 2003 Notes on Contributors Yogita Goyal has been Assistant Professor of English at UCLA since the fall of 2003. Her dissertation from Brown University is titled Diasporic Nationalisms, Nationalist Diasporas: Theorizing Race in the Black Atlantic. She has written reviews of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline (forthcoming in New Formations) and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (New Formations, 2000); of Robert Carr’s Black Nationalism in the New World: Reading the AfricanAmerican and West Indian Experience (forthcoming in Wasafiri); and of Chidi Okonkwo’s Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction (Interventions, 2001). José Itzigsohn is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. He is the author of Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (Penn State UP, 2000), and of some twenty book chapters and articles. These include “Globalization, the State, and the Informal Economy: The Limits to Proletarianization in the Latin American Periphery” in Latin America in the World Economy, edited by R.P. Korseniewicz and W.C. Smith (Greenwood P, 1996); “The Manifold Character of Panethnicity: Latino Identities and Practices among Dominicans in New York City” in Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York City, edited by A. Láo-Montes and A. Davila (Columbia UP, 2001); and “Urbanization in the Caribbean Basin: Social Change During the Years of the Crisis,” co-authored with Alejandro Portes and Carlos Dore (Latin American Research Review, 1994). Gregory Jusdanis is Professor of Modern Greek in the Department of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University in Columbus , OH. He is the author of three books: The Necessary Nation (Princeton UP, 2001); Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature (U of Minnesota P, 1991; Turkish translation Metis, Istanbul, 1998); and The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History (Princeton UP, 1987). His twenty articles include “Greek Literature Abroad: A Stranger at the Feast?” in Step-Mother Tongue: The Literatures of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey, edited by Mehmet Yashin (Middlesex UP, 2000); “Acropolis Now?” (boundary 2, 1996); “Can Multiculturalism Disunite America?” (Thesis Eleven, 1996); and “Beyond National Culture?” (boundary 2, 1995). 143 Diaspora 12:1 2003 Larissa Remennick chairs the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She received her doctorate from the Institute of Sociology of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1988 and worked as a demographer and epidemiologist in the Soviet Union before emigrating to Israel. She is the author of the book-length monograph The Cancer Problem in the Context of Modernity: Sociology, Demography, Politics, which appeared in a special issue of Current Sociology (1998), and of some thirty articles and book chapters. These include “A Case Study in Transnationalism : Russian Jewish Immigrants in Israel of the 1990s” in Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants: Germany, Israel and Post-Soviet Successor States in Comparative Perspective, edited by R. Muenz and R. Ohliger (Frank Cass, 2002); and “Identity Quest among Russian Jews of the 1990s: Before and After Emigration” in Jewish Survival : The Identity Problem at the Close of the 20th Century, edited by E. Krausz and G. Tulea (Transaction P, 1998). Michael Stewart is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at University College, London. He is the author of The Time of the Gypsies (Westview P, 1997); co-author, with S. Day and E. Papataxiarchis, of The Lilies of the Field: Marginal People Who Live for the Moment (Westview P, 1993); and author of more than a dozen articles, including “Un peuple sans patrie [A People without a Homeland]” (Terrain, 1990) and “The Puzzle of Persistence: Group Identity without a Nation” in Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity, edited by T. Acton and G. Mundy (U of Hertfordshire P, 1997). He has directed , produced, and served as a consultant on ten documentaries, including What Magdalena Said, on the persecution of Gypsies in the post-Communist Czech Republic, which aired on BBC1. 144 ...

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