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Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is associate professor of geography and international affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her work focuses on the global circulation of new forms of governance. Her first book, Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor (Cornell, 2008), looked at how the transfer of new forms of corporate management to Eastern Europe reconstructed labor and created markets after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It won the Ed A. Hewett and Orbis book prizes for 2005. In 2009–11 she conducted ethnographic research in camps for internally displaced persons in the Republic of Georgia. Her new work examines humanitarian governance and the reconstruction of citizenship and personhood among displaced people there.

Moritz Feichtinger is a research fellow and Ph.D. student at the University of Bern. He is currently working on his dissertation, titled “New Villages: Forced Relocation, Social Engineering and Counterinsurgency,” which deals with forced resettlement in Kenya, Algeria, and South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s. He has published several articles on late-colonial counterinsurgency.

Nicolas Guilhot is senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in the French West Indies. He holds a Ph.D. in political and social sciences from the European University Institute. His work focuses on the history of the social sciences, international relations, democracy, and human rights. His publications include The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order (Columbia, 2005) and, as editor and contributor, The Invention of International Relations Theory (Columbia, 2010).

Bruce Jones is director of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, as well as director of the Managing Global Order (MGO) project and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Jones’s research focuses on U.S. policy on global order, the global order policies of the emerging powers, global governance and multilateral reform, and international conflict management, peacekeeping, and post-conflict operations. Jones also advises several international organizations, in which capacity he acted as co-lead author and senior external advisor for the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011.

Stephan Malinowski is lecturer in modern European history at University College Dublin. His first book, Vom König zum Führer: Sozialer Niedergang und politische Radikalisierung im deutschen Adel zwischen Kaiserreich und NS-Staat (Akademie, 2003), deals with the relationship between the German nobility and the National Socialist movement. The book won the Hans Rosenberg Prize in 2004. He is now at work on a book project titled Violent Humanitarians: Forced Modernization and the Legacy of [End Page 131] Europe’s Colonial Wars. He has published on forced modernization during the Algerian War, the debate over the colonial origins of the Holocaust and the “colonial” character of National Socialist rule in Eastern Europe, and the influence of collective violence on the formation of European identity.

Hannah Mintek is a freelance photographer based in Boulder, Colorado. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Mintek has spent five years living in the Republic of Georgia. She received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin. Her documentary and art photography is available online at www.hannahmintek.com.

Michael J. Watts is Class of ’63 Professor of Geography and director of development studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught for thirty years. He served as the director of the Institute of International Studies at Berkeley from 1994 to 2004. His research has addressed a number of development issues, especially food security, resource development, and land reform in Africa, South Asia, and Vietnam. Over the last twenty years, he has written extensively on the oil industry, especially in West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. His most recent book is The Curse of the Black Gold: Fifty Years of Oil in the Niger Delta (powerHouse Books, 2008) with photographer Ed Kashi.

Christian A. Williams is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. His doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Michigan in 2009, examines camps that SWAPO administered for Namibian exiles living in Africa’s front-line states during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Williams continues to study liberation movement camps, examining how their histories...

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