Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Delphine Diaw Diallo is a 1999 graduate of the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art in Paris. After working in the music industry for seven years and becoming disillusioned by a world driven by mass consumption, she left her work environment and found refuge in Saint-Louis, Senegal, the hometown of her father. Diallo discovered her extended family and started portraying them. She then created the Magic photo studio, homage to Malick Sidibé's photo studio. She often adds collage, drawing, and color to her photographs, to underline the emotions of her subjects and to tell the whole story.
April Dobbins is a writer and photographer. She grew up in rural Alabama. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including Philadelphia's City Paper, Calyx Journal, Thema, GOOD, and Philly Fiction 2. She is a member of Fitz Hitz Music Group, LLC—a Philadelphia-based arts collective—and she currently resides in Miami.
Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, and Co-Director of the Haiti Laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Center. He recently published Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Metropolitan Books). He is also the author of two books on the revolutionary Caribbean: Avengers of the New World (2004) and A Colony of Citizens (2004). In 2010 he published Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (University of California Press), and is the founding editor of the Soccer Politics Blog (sites.duke.edu/wcwp). He is now working on history of the banjo (under contract with Harvard University Press).
Lisa Gail Collins is Associate Professor in Art History and Africana Studies at Vassar College. She is the author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003), and the coeditor, with Margo Natalie Crawford, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press, 2006). She is currently at work on a book called "Love Lies Here: Quiltwork and the Lessons of Loss."
Tope Folarin grew up in Utah and Texas, and currently lives in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. E-mail: tope.folarin@gmail.com.
Soren Forsberg is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale where he is writing a dissertation about theories of artistic work. A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Forsberg is an occasional contributor to Weekendavisen, a broadsheet news magazine.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah has an MFA in Non-Fiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Observer, Rolling Stone and is forthcoming in The London Review of Books. She currently lives in New Orleans. [End Page 144]
LaToya M. Hobbs is a native of North Little Rock, Arkansas. She received her undergraduate degree in studio art with an emphasis in painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. While studying painting, she developed a keen interest in printmaking, which is now one of her signature mediums. As an emerging African American artist, she works with figurative imagery that addresses the ideas of beauty and spirituality. Hobbs is a MFA candidate in the areas of printmaking and painting in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University where she works as a graduate teaching assistant.
Chantal James is a former Fulbright Fellow to Morocco. Represented by the Karpfinger Agency, she is the author of two novels. She attends graduate school in Washington, D.C., and has previously called the city of Atlanta home.
Eli Jelly-Schapiro is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. E-mail: eli.jelly-schapiro@yale.edu.
Christopher J. Lee is the editor of Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010) and the author of a forthcoming book on nativism and its legacies in southern Africa, to be published by Duke University Press in 2013. Currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he will be starting a...
