Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty

Notes on Contributors

189 Notes on Contributors Alberto S. Galindo is Assistant Professor of Spanish. He earned his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures from Princeton University. His teaching and research interests include post-9/11 literature and culture, Latina/Latino studies, Hispanic Caribbean literatures, race and ethnic studies, English-Spanish translation, and HIV/AIDS and health care. Andrew Lakoff is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Communications, and Sociology at the University of Southern California. His main areas of interest include science and technology studies, biomedicine, social theory, and globalization processes. Lakoff’s first book, Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (2005), examines the role of the global circulation of pharmaceuticals in the spread of biological models of human behavior. He also coedited Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practice (2006) and has published articles on visual technology and the behavioral sciences, the history of attention deficit disorder, and the placebo effect. His current research concerns global health and biosecurity, and his most recent publication is Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (2008), coedited with Stephen J. Collier. 190 notes on contributors Bruce Magnusson is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Global Studies at Whitman College. His teaching and research interests are in international , transnational, and comparative politics, with a particular focus on Africa. His work has been published in Comparative Politics and Comparative Studies in Society and History as well as in multiple volumes on comparative and African politics. Magnusson’s current research addresses questions at the intersections of ethnicity, security, violence, and justice in Africa, the politics of ethnic and religious ascription in population censuses in colonial and postcolonial Africa, and elections and censuses as vectors of violence. Christian Moraru is Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He specializes in critical theory and post–World War II American literature as well as comparative literature with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, narrative, postmodernism in cross-cultural perspective, new material studies, and the relations between globalism, community, and culture. His latest books include Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning (2001), Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (2005), Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2010), and the collection Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination (2009). Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he oversees the Center’s series of Contingency Planning Memoranda and Council Special Reports on potential sources of instability and conflict. Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Her current work focuses on the intersections of law, literature, science, and medicine. Wald’s book Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (2008) considers the conjunction of medicine and myth in the idea of contagion and the evolution of the stories we tell about the global health problem of emerging infections. She is currently working on a book entitled Human Being After Genocide, which explores the challenges to the question of the human in science and social thought in the period following World War II, the emergence of science fiction as a recognizable genre, and the rewriting of human history through genetics. Wald is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (1995), the editor of the journal American Literature, and co-editor of a book series on nineteenthcentury American literature. She is a member of Duke’s Institute for Genome 191 notes on contributors Sciences and Policy, an affiliate of Duke’s Trent Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. Geoffrey Whitehall is Associate Professor of Political Science at Acadia University , Nova Scotia. His general research interests include international political theory, contemporary political thought, and discourses of culture and technology. His latest publications include “Preemptive Sovereignty and Avian Pandemics,” in Theory & Event (2010); “Opening Global Politics: A New Introduction ” (cowritten with Rachel Brickner), in International Studies Perspective (2009); “Politics after the Event: Exceeding Asia/Pacific,” in Borderlands (2007); and “Musical Modulations of Political Thought: amplifying difference beyond the grammar of sovereignty,” in Theory & Event (2006). He is currently working on his book Global...