Contributors
- Contributors
Richard Baxstrom is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Previously published in journals such as Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asia Studies, and Parachute: revue d’art contemporain/contemporary art magazine, he is currently revising for publication a manuscript tentatively entitled Wrecking Balls, Recognition, Reform: The Ambivalent Experience of Law, Justice, and Place in Urban Malaysia, and can be reached at rbb23@jhu.edu.
William Connolly is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory. His most recent books are Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed (2002) and Pluralism (Duke, 2005). He is currently working on contemporary resonances between capitalism, Christianity, media and the state.
Nicholas de Villiers is a lecturer teaching film, literature, and gender/sexuality studies in the department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, Opacities: Queer Strategies looked at the public personas of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, and Andy Warhol. He can be reached at devil001@umn.edu.
Karla Erickson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. She has published articles on gender and labor, feminist theory and the service society in Space and Culture, Symbolic Interaction and Qualitative Sociology. Along with Hokulani Aikau and Jennifer Pierce, she is co-editor of an anthology entitled Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy, 1964-2000, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. Before she traded in her apron for a scholar’s robe, Karla worked as a waitress for over a decade. Her dissertation, currently under contract with Cornell University Press, examines what she calls the ‘dance of service’ between customers, servers and managers amily restaurants. She received her PhD in American Studies and Feminist Studies form the University of Minnesota in 2004.
Naveeda Khan is a postdoctoral fellow teaching on the anthropology of religion and of Modern South Asia and Islam in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, where she will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor in 2006. She is currently engaged in turning her dissertation into a book manuscript tentatively titled: The Passage of a Promise: Spaces of Worship, Sectarian Violence, and Embodied Skepticism in Urban Pakistan and in co-editing a book of essays on contemporary Pakistan with Asad Ali (Columbia University) titled Beyond Crisis: A Critical Second Look at Pakistan. Her email address is nkhan5@jhu.edu.
Jimmy Casas Klausen is the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Political Science at Grinnell College. His work spans the fields of political theory, interstate political thought, anthropology, and post-colonial theory. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, Primitives Accumulating: The Alien Encounters of Rousseau & Diderot.
Scott Michaelsen is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. He is the author of many works on problems of literature, anthropology, and law, and currently is Co-Editor-in-Chief of CR: The New Centennial Review, a journal of theoretical, interdisciplinary scholarship on the Americas. He can be reached at: smichael@msu.edu
Deborah Poole is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Here research focuses on political culture, race and the modern state in Mexico and Peru. She is the author of Vision, Race and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean World (1997), and she is currently completing a book entitled Unfamiliar Intimacies: Cultural Propertdies and the Liberal State in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Bruce Rosenstock is an associate professor in the Program for the Study of Religion and the Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently a Fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, he is working on a book entitled Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn to Cavell. He can reached at brsnstck@uiuc.edu.
Scott Cutler Shershow is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His most recent book is The Work and the Gift (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He can be reached at scshershow@ucdavis.edu.
Bhrigupati Singh is presently doing a PhD at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University. Before this he studied at Delhi University and SOAS, University of London, and worked at the Sarai programme, CSDS, Delhi...
