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  • Contributors

Sulochana R. Asirvatham is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and General Humanities at Montclair State University. She is co-editor of Between Religion and Magic: Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Society (2001), and has published numerous articles on ancient Greek identity and historiography. She is currently completing a manuscript tentatively entitled Constructing Alexander the Great: Greek Writers and the Macedonian Past in the Roman Empire. She can be reached at asirvathas@mail.montclair.edu.

Carlo Bonura is the Luce Assistant Professor of Islamic Societies in Southeast Asia in the Department of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound. His research interests include comparative political theory and Southeast Asian Islamic political thought with a focus on the the politics of Islamic education in Thailand and Malaysia and discourses of Islam civil society in Malaysia and Indonesia. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Southern Fires: Location, Agency and Political Violence in Southern Thailand that critically assesses dominant narratives of political violence and agency in the current conflict in Southern Thailand.

Jason Demers is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, York University, Toronto. His dissertation is provisionally entitled Collecting Intensities: The Arrival of French Theory in America, 1970s. He can be reached at demersj@yorku.ca.

Roxanne Lynn Doty is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Arizona State University. She is the author of Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Anti-Immigrantism is Western Democracies-Statecraft, Desire, and the Politics of Exclusion (Routledge, 2003) and has contributed to various journals including International Studies Quarterly, Millennium, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Alternatives, and International Political Sociology. Her book, Border Vigilantes, Immigration “Reform,” and the Politics of Exceptionalism, (tentative title), University of Arizona Press is forthcoming, Spring 2009.

Khaled Furani is the recepient of the Yonatan Shapira post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University. He is currently completing a book titled When Poets Go to Sleep: an Inquiry Into Secularising Arabic Poetic Forms, to be published by Syracuse University Press. He can be reached at: Khaled@post.tau.ac.il

Catherine Holland teaches political theory and feminist theory at the University of Missouri, and she remains hard at work on a book about theatre and democracy in the American political tradition, from Alexis de Tocqueville to Laurie Anderson.

Claudia Leeb is a fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and holds the APART grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled: The Possibilities of the Impossible: Rethinking Feminist Political Theory. You can read more about her at: www.claudialeeb.com.

Robert S. Lehman is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of English at Cornell University. His research deals with the relationship between modernist literature and philosophies of time. He can be reached at robslehman@gmail.com

Lauri Siisiäinen is a researcher in Political Science, at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). He is also a member of the Finnish Academy’s Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change (the research team Politics and the Arts). Currently, he is finishing his doctoral thesis, dealing with the political theory of sound, music and listening. He can be reached at lasiisia@cc.jyu.fi”

Simon Stow is an associate professor of Government at The College of William and Mary. His first book, Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis (SUNY, 2007), was selected as a 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: The Politics of American Public Mourning. He can be reached at sastow@wm.edu.

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