Contributors
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G. Daniel Cohen is associate professor of history at Rice University. His first book, In War’s Wake: Europe’s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order (Oxford, 2012), shows how the problem posed by the “last million” of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees from World War II affected the ideology and methods of modern humanitarian interventions, the rise of a human rights system, the organization of international migration, and the advent of Jewish nationhood. He is currently completing a book on philo-Semitism in the West after 1945, as well as a college-level textbook on “histories” of human rights from abolitionism to the present.
James Ferguson is Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He also holds honorary appointments in the department of sociology and social anthropology at Stellenbosch University and the department of social anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He is the author or editor of several books, including Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Duke, 2006). His current work on distribution and social assistance will appear as a forthcoming book, with the provisional title Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution.
Bronwyn Leebaw is associate professor of political science at the University of California at Riverside, where she teaches courses in human rights, transitional justice, political theory, international politics and ethics, and environmental justice. She is the author of Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change (Cambridge, 2011) and has published articles on human rights, humanitarianism, and transitional justice in journals such as Perspectives on Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, Polity, and Journal of Human Rights. She codirects the University of California Human Rights Collaboration.
Vanessa Ogle is assistant professor of transnational modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book is a history of unifying clock times, calendars, and social time. Ogle’s next project, Archipelago Capitalism: Decolonization and the Emergence of the Global Economy, 1950s–1980s, looks at a deterritorialized economic and legal order through the lens of tax havens, Eurodollar markets, special economic zones, and multinationals connecting these islands of unregulated capitalism.
Umut Özsu is assistant professor of law at the University of Manitoba. His research interests include public international law, the history and theory of international law, and socio-legal studies. His first book, Formalizing Displacement: International Law and Population Transfers (Oxford, forthcoming), situates population transfer within the broader history of international law by examining its emergence as a legally formalized mechanism of nation-building in the early twentieth century. [End Page 299]
David Shneer holds the Louis P. Singer Chair in Jewish History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is professor of history and religious studies and director of the program in Jewish studies. His newest book is Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust (Rutgers, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Prize and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His current project, Redeeming Germany: Yiddish Music between Fascism and Communism, examines Yiddish musical culture’s place in European history from 1933 through 1989.
Bradley R. Simpson is associate professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Economists with Guns: Authoritarian Development and U.S.-Indonesian Relations, 1960–1968 (Stanford, 2008). He is currently working on two books: an international history of Indonesian authoritarianism from 1966 to 1998, and a global history of the idea of self-determination.
Keith David Watenpaugh is a historian and director of the University of California-Davis Human Rights Initiative and, most recently, an American Council of Learned Societies fellow. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006) and Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (California, 2014). His articles appear in the American Historical Review, Social History, Journal of Human Rights, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Huffington Post. He is the research director of a Carnegie Corporation-supported, Middle East-based initiative for refugee Syrian university students and educators. He codirects the University of California Human Rights Collaboration. [End Page 300]
