Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 8:3 1999 Notes on Contributors Sheila Croucher is Associate Professor of Political Science at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World (UP of Virginia, 1997) and of many articles and reviews on issues of ethnicity and race, including "South Africa's Illegal Aliens: Constructing National Boundaries in a Post-Apartheid State" (Ethnic and Racial Studies 1998)and "Mandela in Miami: The Globalization of Ethnicity in an American City" (Journal of Developing Societies 1994). She is currently at work on a study concerning emerging forms of belonging. Denise L. Davis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University, where she is working on the French eighteenth century; as the Assistant Editor of differences : ajournai offeminist cultural studies; and as a translator. Patrick Haney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Miami University of Ohio. He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, including two with W. Vanderbush on "Policy toward Cuba in the Clinton Administration" (Political Science Quarterly 1999)and "The Role of Ethnic Interest Groups in US Foreign Policy: The Case of the Cuban American National Foundation" (International Studies Quarterly 1999). He is currently working on a book about US-Cuban policy. Mireille Rosello is Professor of French and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of six books, including the forthcoming Postcolonial Guests: Uses and Abuses of Hospitality (Stanford UP); Declining the Stereotype: Representation and Ethnicity in French Cultures (UP of New England, 1998); and Littérature et identité créole aux Antilles (Paris: Karthala P, 1992), along with numerous articles on the work of such authors as Maryse Condé, Serge Meynard, and Farida Belghoul and on topics such as the national-sexual and immigrant women confronted with the ideology of modernization. Diaspora 8:3 1999 William Safran is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado—Boulder and the author of several books on nation and ethnicity, including The French Polity (1977, rpt. 1979, 1985, 1991), and numerous articles, including "Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return" (Diaspora 1991). He is also the founding and current Editor of the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Dominique Schnapper is Directrice d'Études in Sociology at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author ofeleven books and co-author oftwo others, on France, Italy, ethnicity, race, unemployment, and other topics. Among her books are La Relation à VAutre. Au cœur de la Pensée sociologique (Gallimard , 1998); La Communauté des citoyens. Sur l'idée moderne de nation (Gallimard, 1994); L'Europe des immigrés. Essais sur les politiques d'immigration (François Burin, 1992); La France de l'intégration (Gallimard, 1990); and Juifs et Israélites (Gallimard, 1980). She has been the President of the French Society of Sociology , of the Conseil d'État, and of the Commission on Nationality. Gurharpal Singh is the CR. Parekh Professor in Indian Politics at the University of Hull, UK. He is the author of Ethnic Conflict in India (St. Martin's, 2000) and co-editor, with Ian Talbot, of Region and Partition (Oxford UP, 1999) and Punjabi Identity. He is currently writing a book on the Sikhs of Britain and the Indian Diaspora. 332 ...