Contributors
- Contributors
Asef Bayat, the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, teaches sociology and Middle East studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His latest books are Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2nd ed., 2013) and the edited volume Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Samera Esmeir is an associate professor in the rhetoric department at University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Sudipta Kaviraj is a professor of Indian politics and intellectual history in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.
Elektra Kostopoulou is currently teaching in the Department of History at Rutgers University. In 2012–2013 she was a visiting scholar at the Remarque Institute, New York University. Her first book, The Island of Leros as an Ottoman Province: History through the Books of the Local Elders (2005), is a monograph 0n the socioeconomic transformations experienced by a small Aegean island at the dusk of the Ottoman era.
Michele L. Louro is an assistant professor of history at Salem State University. Her research focuses on twentieth-century South Asia with an interest in the relationship between Indian nationalism and internationalism. Her current book project situates the anticolonial nationalist politics of Jawaharlal Nehru in relation to the international anti-imperialist mobilizations and networks of the late colonial and inter-war period.
Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor and the director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He is the author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Duke University Press, 2011).
Tahir Naqvi is an assistant professor of anthropology at Trinity University. His work focuses on nationalism and urban political space in Pakistan.
Ali Raza is a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. His research revolves around the history of progressive and leftist movements in South Asia. He is also coeditor of the book The Internationalist Moment (Sage, forthcoming).
Franziska Roy has recently completed her PhD from Warwick University and is currently a researcher at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
Sanil V. is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
K. Satyanarayana is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural Studies in the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India. His research interests are in the fields of Dalit studies, literary history, and cultural theory. He is coeditor of No Alphabet in Sight (Penguin, 2011) and Steel Nibs Are Sprouting (HarperCollins, 2013), two volumes of New Dalit Writing from South India.
Mrinalini Sinha is Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (Duke University Press, 2006), among other works.
Carolien Stolte is an assistant professor of history at Leiden University and managing editor of the journal Itinerario. Her research focuses on South Asian intellectual history from a transnational perspective.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at New York University. She is the author of The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India (Duke University Press, 2003) and the coedited volume The Crisis of Secularism in India (Duke University Press, 2006). She is currently completing a book on the post-Rushdie Indian novel in English. [End Page 417]
Milind Wakankar is the author of Subalternity and Religion (Routledge, 2010), which attempts a literary-philosophical history of low-caste protest over the course of the Indo-Islamic millennium. He has taught at Stony Brook and in the Center for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. He is now an associate professor in the School of Culture and Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi.
Benjamin Zachariah is a fellow at the Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University. [End Page 418]
