Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 7:2 1998 Notes on Contributors Anne-Marie Fortier received her PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths College of the University of London. After teaching there and at Concordia University in Montréal, she is now Lecturer in the Sociology Department of Lancaster University in the UK. Her book Italians Never Die, They Just Pasta Away: Indeterminacy, Continuity and the Location ofCulture is forthcoming from Berg Press in Oxford. She edited the thematic issue of Sociologie et sociétés (number 24, 1992) on "Racisme, ethnicité, nation" and is the author of such articles and book chapters as "Remembering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)," forthcoming in Theory, Culture and Society; "Troubles in the Field: The Use of Personal Experiences as Sources of Knowledge," Critique of Anthropology 16:3 (1996); and "Calling on Giovanni: Interrogating the Nation through Diasporic Imaginations," International Journal of Canadian Studies (1998). Donna R. Gabaccia is Charles H. Stone Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. She is the author ofItaly's Many Diasporas: Elites, Exiles, and Workers of the World (forthcoming in the World Diasporas series, edited by Robin Cohen and published by UCL Press in the UK and by University of Washington Press). Her other books include We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Identity and the Business ofFood from Colonial Times to the Present (Harvard UP, 1998); From the Other Side: Women, Gender, and the Immigrant Life in the United States, 1820-1990 (Indiana UP, 1994); Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers (Rutgers UP, 1988); and From Sicily to Elizabeth Street: Housing and Social Change Among Italian Immigrants, 1880-1930 (SUNY P, 1984). She is also the author of many articles on labor and migration and the co-editor of the forthcoming For Us There Are No Frontiers: Italian Labor, Migration and the Making ofMulti-Ethnic Nations Around the World and of Seeking Common Ground: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Immigrant Women (Greenwood, 1992). Camilla Gibb received her PhD in anthropology from Oxford University. She currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada at the 280 Notes on Contributors Department ofAnthropology, University ofToronto. Her first novel, Mouthing the Words, will appear in September 1999 from Pedlar Press in Toronto. Her ethnography of the Ethiopian Harari and their diaspora, In the City of Saints and Beyond, is under review. William F.S. Miles is Stotsky Professor ofJewish Historical and Cultural Studies and Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author ofElections and Ethnicity in French Martinique: A Paradox in Paradise (Praeger, 1986); Elections in Nigeria: A Grassroots Perspective (Lynne Riener, 1988); Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger (Cornell UP, 1994); Imperial Burdens: Countercolonialism in the Former French India (Lynne Riener, 1995); and Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu (U of Hawai'i P 1998), as well as of numerous articles including "Jews in Paradise," Transition 77 (1999) and "Négritude and Judaism," Western Journal of Black Studies 21:2 (1997). He is currently working on a project concerning Third World views of the Holocaust. Razmik Panossian is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is finishing his dissertation on "The Evolution of Multi-Local National Identity and the Politics of Contemporary Nationalism." He is the co-editor, with Donald V. Schwartz, of Nationalism and History: The Politics of Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Armenia (Centre for Russian and East European Studies, U of Toronto, 1994), and author of several articles, including "The Armenians: Conflicting Identities and the Politics of Division," and of a chapter in Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics and International Relations in the Former Soviet Union, edited by Charles King and Neil Melvin (Westview P, 1998). Gabriel (Gabi) Sheffer is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the editor of Modern Diasporas in International Politics (Croom Helm/St. Martin's, 1986), a pioneering text in the political study of diasporas, to which he also contributed two articles, an introductory survey and "Political Aspects ofJewish Fund-Raising for Israel." He is also the author of...