Contributors
- Contributors
Maria Berghs is a social and cultural anthropologist who received her Ph.D. from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Her book War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone is due to be published in 2012. She currently works as a research fellow for the University of York in the United Kingdom. Her research interests include disability, gender, and West Africa. She may be contacted by e-mail at: mariaberghs@gmail.com.
Michael Bürge received his M.A. (Licentiatus Philosophiae) in anthropology from the University of Zürich in 2010. He is an external lecturer and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Zürich and part of the DFG Priority Program 1448: Adaptation and Creativity in Africa—Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder. His interests include the anthropology of the state; the regulation of flows of people, goods, technologies, and capital; the anthropology of roads; and the anthropology of ethics. He may be contacted by e-mail at: michael.buerge@uzh.ch.
Myriam Dos Santos-Zingale received her M.A. from Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada). She is an occupational therapist and has worked in many different settings in a number of different African countries over the past ten years. She may be contacted by e-mail at: myriam_zingale@yahoo.fr.
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim is the coeditor of this special issue of Africa Today and a lecturer and director of the Institute of Gender Research and Documentation at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. She received her Ph.D. in English studies from Illinois State University in 2006. She is an active member of the Sierra Leone Women's movement, has published journal articles on the Sierra Leone civil war from women's perspectives, and is currently researching issues around the 30 percent gender quota campaign and young women's political participation in Sierra Leone. She may be contacted by e-mail at: mamaisha@gmail.com.
Vandy Kanyako received his Ph.D. from George Mason University. He is an adjunct professor of conflict at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. His research interests include civil society, the political economy of peacebuilding, and traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution. He may be contacted by e-mail at: vandykanyako@gmail.com. [End Page 164]
Anne Menzel is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Department of Political and Social Science at Free University, Berlin. Her research interests include Sierra Leone before, during, and after the civil war, social change, and peacebuilding strategies. She is currently completing her dissertation. She may be contacted by e-mail at: amenzel@zedat.fu-berlin.de.
Krijn Peters is assistant professor of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction at Swansea University, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. in development studies from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, in 2006. He is the coauthor of War and Children: A Reference Handbook (Praeger Security International, 2009) and War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His research interests include the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of (child) ex-combatants; transitional justice; youth marginalization and exclusion; and rural and agrarian development in war-affected countries. He may be contacted by e-mail at: k.peters@swansea.ac.uk.
Susan Shepler is assistant professor of international peace and conflict resolution in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in social and cultural studies in education in 2005. Her book Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone is based on her dissertation and is under publication consideration. She has published several articles and book chapters in the fields of childhood studies, African politics, transitional justice, and postconflict peacebuilding. In addition to her scholarly efforts, she has worked as a research consultant for UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, and Search for Common Ground. She may be contacted by e-mail at: shepler@american.edu. [End Page 165]
