About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Dionisius A. Agius is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the Al Qasimi Professor of Arabic and Islamic Material Culture at the University of Exeter, UK, with a main interest in maritime ethnography, Islamic maritime heritage, cultural history, and Arabic language and linguistics. He has conducted fieldwork in the Arabian Gulf and Oman and the Red Sea (African and Arabian) coasts. His recent works are: In the Wake of the Dhow: The Arabian Gulf and Oman (2002); Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman: The People of the Dhow (2005) and Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (2008).
Anders Bjørkelo is Professor in Middle Eastern History at the Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural and Religious Studies, and Coordinator of the Center of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. His main research area is Sudanese History, on which he has published books and articles. His other areas of interest include the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Transjordan, and the Indian Ocean.
Gian Paolo Calchi Novati is Professor of the History of Africa at the Universities of Pavia and Roma La Sapienza, and he serves as Director of the Africa Program at Ispi (Istituto Studi di Politica Internazionale) of Milan. [End Page 341] His most recently published volume was L’Africa d’Italia: Una storia coloniale e postcoloniale (Carocci, Rome 2011).
Andrew Casad holds a Master of Theological Studies in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame (2003) and a Master of Arts in cultural anthropology from UC San Diego (2005). His fieldwork in Eritrea explored hybridity and authenticity in the Eritrean Catholic Church. He currently serves as a pastoral liturgist at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, where she is also Vice Chair of Africana Studies, Chair of the Migration and Refugee Studies division of the Center for the Study of Social Justice, a core faculty member of the program in Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights, and co-director of the Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program, in partnership with Gulu University, Uganda. She is a founding co-editor of the African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review journal, and her research and teaching interests focus on forced migration, transnationalism, political conflict, peacebuilding, and human rights organizing in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes Region and their diasporas. Her recent publications include Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (2009), and Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-first Century (co-edited with David O’Kane, 2009).
Abbebe Kifleyesus is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Asmara in Eritrea. He taught at the University of Alabama between 1989 and 1997 and was a visiting professor at the University of California at Riverside in 2003–2004. He has been a research fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme and the African Studies Centre of the University of Cambridge. He has participated and presented papers at various international conferences and so far published two books and numerous articles in various peer reviewed journals and edited books. His research interests include: Cosmology, Indigenous Knowledge, Language and Culture, Erthnicity and Ethnic Identity, Informal Economies, Conflict Resolution and Peace Building, [End Page 342] Population Movements, Ethno-Medical Systems, and the Socio-Cultural Context of Infectious Tropical Diseases.
Daniel Mains is Wick Cary Assistant Professor of Honors at the University of Oklahoma. He holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Emory University and has conducted extensive research among young people in Jimma, Ethiopia. His book, Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment and the Future in Urban Ethiopia, was published by Temple University Press (2012).
Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner is the scientific editor of Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg. Born in Barcelona, he has a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Barcelona and a Masters in African Anthropology from the EHESS, Paris. In 2008, he defended a PhD in History at the European University Institute...
