Contributors
- Contributors
Noor Al-Qasimi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries at Kings College, London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and queer studies; Middle Eastern cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect. Previously Al-Qasimi held a research fellowship at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University and a teaching fellowship in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication also at NYU. She has authored numerous articles in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, and Cultural Studies and Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, as well as book chapters in texts including Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures, ed. Radha Hegde (New York University Press, 2011). Al-Qasimi is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Post-Oil Generation in the United Arab Emirates. She received a Ph.D. in Film and Television from the University of Warwick.
Dr. Rodney W. Collins is a socio-cultural anthropologist with nearly fifteen years of experience conducting qualitative research in the Middle East, North Africa, and the United States. Throughout his research, he weaves together ethnographic findings with historical analysis to investigate the complex circuitry of market-state-society, especially as it irradiates the formation of contemporary male subjectivities. He has been the recipient of Fulbright, Mellon, Wenner-Gren, and Ford awards. Collins has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University, Georgetown University, and Columbia University and has been an invited [End Page 155] speaker at Qatar University, the U.S. Library of Congress, and on the Voice of America. He currently is a Strategic Cultural Consultant with Truth Central, a division of McCann WorldGroup. He has also consulted with the World Monuments Fund, IREX, and the Iraqi Board of Heritage & Antiquities.
Mathew Gagné is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has an academic and professional background in sociology, Middle East Studies, diaspora and transnationalism studies, and program and policy evaluation. After some wandering of the academic terrain, his research has come to focus on the ways that movements of symbolic and material culture between online/global queer mediums and offline/local socio-political context shape new queer social forms among men in the Levant. Over the next few years he will be examining, through his dissertation research, how global gay male dating web sites serve as anthropological tools for understanding the subjective, cultural, and political transformations initiated by the affective and transnational dimensions of these web sites that punctuate the points where the online and offline worlds meet.
Serkan Gorkemli is an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Before joining UConn, he taught at Purdue University, where he received a Ph.D. in English, and at Stanford University's Program in Writing and Rhetoric. His research interests include rhetoric and composition, LGBT/queer studies, and media studies. His writing has been published in Enculturation, Reflections, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Praxis, Computers and Composition Online, and The Writing Lab Newsletter. Currently, he is writing a book about literacy, new media, sexuality, and collegiate lesbian and gay activism in Turkey.
Adi Kuntsman is Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include queer politics in Israel-Palestine; war and violence in digital media; and affect and emotions. Kuntsman is the author of Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2009) and the co-editor of Out of Place: Interrogating [End Page 156] Silences in Queerness/Raciality (with Esperanza Miyake, Raw Nerve Books, 2008) and Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Sima Shakhsari is the 2010-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Houston and starts her position as assistant professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Wellesley College in Fall 2012. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University and is currently turning her dissertation into a book manuscript titled Blogging...
