Contributors
- Contributors
Arjun Appadurai is Godard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on globalization, media, and cities. His most recent book is The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition (Verso, 2013).
Tani Barlow is a historian of modern China teaching in the Department of History at Rice University. She is completing a book titled “In the Event of Women” and a Chinese commercial advertising database project. Barlow is T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies and inaugural senior editor of positions: asia critque, formerly positions: east asia cultures critique.
Katerina Clark is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She is the author of Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1995), among other works.
Lara Deeb is an associate professor of anthropology at Scripps College. She is the author of An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi‘i Lebanon (Princeton University Press, 2006) and Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shiite South Beirut, coauthored with Mona Harb (Princeton University Press, 2013). Currently, she is writing a book with Jessica Winegar titled “Anthropology’s Politics: Discipline and Region through the Lens of the Middle East.”
James De Lorenzi is an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Faisal Devji is a reader in Indian History at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
David C. Engerman is a professor of history at Brandeis University, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley in 1998. He is the author of two previous books: Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development (Harvard University Press, 2003).
Leela Gandhi is a professor of English at the University of Chicago. Her publications include Postcolonial Theory (Columbia University Press, 1998), Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Duke University Press, 2006), Measures of Home: Poems (Orient Longman, 2000), and the coauthored work England through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2001). Her study “The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900–1955” is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. She is also a founding editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.
Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis is director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University and a contributing editor of CSSAAME.
Samuel J. Hirst is an assistant professor of history at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan. His current research focuses on Soviet-Turkish relations between the First and Second World Wars. His article “Anti-Westernism on the European Periphery: The Meaning of Soviet-Turkish Convergence in the 1930s” was published in the spring 2013 issue of Slavic Review.
Shamil Jeppie was until recently on the faculty of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He joined the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) in 2011 and presently is director of the institute. He has also served as a member of the steering committee of Sephis (South-South Exchange Programme in the History of Development).
Deniz Kandiyoti is emeritus professor in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London.
Abigail Judge Kret received her master’s degree in Russian studies from Columbia University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in history at Princeton University, where she studies global/transnational history.
Udaya Kumar is a professor in the Department of English at University Delhi and a fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. [End Page 257]
Steven Pierce teaches African history at the University of Manchester. He is currently completing a cultural history of corruption in northern Nigeria.
Christine Philliou is a member of CSSAAME’s editorial collective and an associate professor in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her book, Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution, was published by University of California Press in 2010.
Tanika Sarkar is a professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University...
