Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Joan Gross is assistant professor of anthropology at Oregon State University. She has done field work on puppetry in Belgium; on North African Arabs and Berbers in France and Spain; and on decima singing in Puerto Rico. She is the author of articles on popular culture as contested terrain and on the politics of language. David McMurray is adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at Linfield College. His field research in Morocco, France, and Belgium is concerned with the contemporary culture of Morocco and the impact upon it of labor migration and the creation of a transnational Moroccan community. Ted Swedenburg is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. His book on the struggle for a Palestinian national past, Memories ofRevolt, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press; another volume, coedited with Smadar Lavie, Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, will be published by Duke University Press. Susan Koshy is assistant professor of English at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Her dissertation was titled "'Under Other Skies': Writing Gender, Nation and Diaspora" (UCLA, 1992). She has written on the reterritorialization ofAsian-American identity in works by Sara Suleri and Jessica Hagedorn and on the relationship between nationalism and gender. Liisa Malkki is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California-Irvine. She is the author of Purity and Exile (University of Chicago, forthcoming), which is concerned with cosmology , historical memory, and national consciousness in a Tanzanian refugee camp for Hutu refugees from Burundi. She has also written and lectured on the discursive practices that "root" peoples, as well as on autochthony, exile, and the liminality of refugees both within and outside the order of nation-states. Yossi Shain is assistant professor of political science at Tel-Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of The Frontier ofLoyalty: Political Exiles in the Age ofthe Nation-State (Wesleyan University Press, 1989) and the editor of Governments-in-Exile in Contemporary World Politics (Routledge, 1991), along with numerous articles on the politics of transition from authoritarian to democratic regimes and the key role that sometimes hastily assembled transition governments play in determining enduring outcomes. ...