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  • About the Contributors

Daniel Agbiboa (danielagbiboa@gmail.com) is a doctoral candidate at the Research School of Social Science, Australian National University. He holds the prestigious IPRS and URS doctoral research scholarships funded by the Commonwealth Government. He also holds a double masters degree in development studies and international relations (summa cum laude) from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), respectively. His research interests include corruption, conflict, security, and development. He has authored several articles in various scholarly journals, including Third World Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Journal of Black Studies, and Africa Today.

Sadaf Rashid Ali (du8104@wayne.edu) is an assistant professor in electronic media in the Department of Communication, Media and Theater Arts at Eastern Michigan University. A former television and radio news reporter, Sadaf has worked for mainstream and ethnic media in Ohio and Michigan. Her research focuses on media effects, framing, agenda setting, risk/crisis information, securitization, race, and audience attitudes toward messages originating from traditional and social media sources. In 2010, Sadaf was part of an Emmy- award-winning project titled The MATRIX: Commemorating Walter P. Reuther, Union Activist.

Lina Beydoun (lbeydoun@adelphi.edu) is currently a joint fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and Qatar University. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at Adelphi University. She was also a faculty director at the Center for Global Education at George Mason University and a lecturer in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Wayne State University. She specializes in human [End Page 191] rights, migration, and citizenship, with a focus on the Arab region and sub-Saharan Africa. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Wayne State University and her B.A. in social and behavioral sciences from the American University of Beirut. She was born and raised in Sierra Leone.

Lori Hatmann-Mahmoud (Lori.hartmann-mahmud@centre.edu) is the Hower Associate Professor of International Studies at Centre College, where she teaches classes in international relations, African politics, gender and politics, and political economy of development. Her work has been published in the following journals: Political Science and Politics, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Poverty, Signs, and Peace Review. She regularly leads study-abroad trips to both France and Cameroon.

Debbie James (debbie.james@live.ca) holds a Ph.D. in communication with a focus on new media, the intersection between public memory and transnational lived experience, human rights, and women’s production practices. Her research interests include participatory media production and emerging digital cultures. She is conducting ongoing field research in Southeastern Europe and is producing the multimedia installation Sitting on Two Stools, exploring postconflict use of social media in the former Yugoslavia. Her research has won a 2011 Top Paper award at ICA. Formerly a chief of staff to an Ontario cabinet minister, she is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Governors State University.

Brian Klosterboer (bklosterboer@gmail.com) is a Fulbright Research Fellow at Makerere University, where he is exploring the relationships between the Ugandan media and the military. He presented a version of this paper at the African Studies Association Conference in November 2011 and will continue his studies at Harvard Law School in August 2013.

Fredrick Ogenga (braco_od@yahoo.com) is the founding director of Tazama Media Consultants, a former lecturer at Maseno University, and currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS) at Boston University, in Boston, MA.

Joseph Venosa (josephvenosa@hotmail.com) is an assistant professor of African history and the Islamic world at Clayton State University in [End Page 192] Morrow, Georgia. He has also held teaching positions at Ohio University and Kenyon College. His research focuses on the relationship between contemporary nationalist movements and Islamic practices in the Horn of Africa, with particular focus on Eritrea and Ethiopia. He is currently working on a book manuscript concerning the relationship between nationalism and Islamic community activism in Eritrea from 1941 to 1961. He received his Ph.D. in African history from Ohio University in 2011.

Fred Vultee (vulteef@wayne.edu) is an assistant professor of journalism in the...

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