Notes on Contributors

Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology and history at New York University. His research focuses especially on problems of social solidarity and popular democracy. His book, The Public Sphere, is forthcoming (2003).

Dipesh Chakrabarty is professor of history and of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. His books include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000) and Habitations of Modernity (2002).

Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. John L. Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the same institution, and senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Their joint publications include Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 1 (1991) and vol. 2 (1997), Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (1992), and various edited collections.

Saurabh Dube is professor of history at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México. He has written Untouchable Pasts (1998); Sujetos Subalternos (2001); and Stitches on Time (forthcoming). His edited volumes include Pasados Poscoloniales (1999); Historical Anthropology (forthcoming); Postcolonial Passages (forthcoming); and, coedited with Ishita Banerjee and Edgardo Lander, "Critical Conjunctions: Foundations of Colony and Formations of Modernity," a special issue of Nepantla: Views from South (2002).

Sandra E. Greene is professor of African history and chair of the history department at Cornell University. She has also served as president of the African Studies Association. Author of Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast (1996) and Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter (2002), her research has focused on the precolonial and colonial history of Ghana (west Africa), in which the social and the cultural are studied in the context of changes that were also occurring in the political and religious belief systems of southern Ghana.

Saidiya Hartman is associate professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley. She is the author of Scenes of Subjection (1999) and is currently completing a book entitled Strangers and Kin.

Michael Herzfeld is professor of anthropology at Harvard University. Author of eight books, including Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society (2001), Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (1997), and Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (1997), he has served as editor of American Ethnologist (1994–1998) and has been the recipient of the J. I. Staley Prize of the School of American Research (1994) and the Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (London) (1994). His ethnographic research interests in Greece, Italy, and Thailand have focused on questions of the ownership of the past and the transmission of knowledge, relations between local and national levels of identity, and epistemological problems of comparison.

Walter Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities. He is also coeditor of Nepantla: Views from South. Among his recent publications are The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (1995) and Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (2000).

Ajay Skaria is associate professor of history and global studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Hybrid Histories (1999), and is currently working on a book tentatively titled Rendering Gandhi: Liberalism and the Question of the Neighbor.

Michel-Rolph Trouillotis professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. His books include Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) and Haiti: State Against Nation (1990). He has also written extensively on the Caribbean, globalization, historical apologies, and the production of concepts and categories in the human sciences.

Milind Wakankar is finishing his Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University on the relation between caste and canonicity in Indian nationalism, focusing on literary and critical texts in Hindi and Marathi.