Contributors
- Contributors
Ali Banuazizi is a professor of cultural psychology and is codirector of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at Boston College. He is the current president of the Middle East Studies Association in North America (MESA).
Nile Green is the Milburn Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a lecturer in South Asian studies in the Department of Religions and Theology, Manchester University. He recently published "A Persian Sufi in British India: The Travels of Mirza Hasan Safi 'Ali Shah" in Iran: Journal of Persian Studies (2004). His monograph Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books, and Empires in the Muslim Deccan is forthcoming (Routledge).
Sam Kaplan teaches anthropology and history at the Middle East Studies Department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. He obtained his PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago and won the 1996 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences (Middle East Studies Association in North America). His research focuses on the relationship between modern state formation and different forms of knowledge. He has conducted a sociological study of French colonial archives as well as a multisited ethnography of a local school system in southern Turkey. He has published articles in American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and History and Anthropology. He is currently exploring the state visits during Atatürk's presidency and the cultural politics therewith. His forthcoming book, The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in post 1980 Turkey (Stanford University Press), illustrates the dynamic interplay of politics, society, and education among Turkish villagers.
Karen Leonard is a historian and anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine. Her PhD (1969, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is in history, the history of India. She has published books and articles on the social history and anthropology of India and on Punjabi Mexican Americans, South Asian Americans, and Muslim Americans. Her books include Social History of an Indian Caste: The Kayasths of Hyderabad, California'a Punjabi Mexican Americans, and South Asian Americans. Currently, she is looking at the construction of identity in the diaspora by emigrants from Hyderabad, India, settling in Pakistan, Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and the Gulf states of the Middle East. Her most recent book is Muslims in the United States: The State of Research, an extended bibliographic essay relating Muslim Americans to the changing religious, social, and political landscape in America.
Irina Liczek is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the New School university in New York. She is currently completing her dissertation, titled "The Struggle for Gender Equality in Central Asia: Democracy, International Norms, and Islamic Resurgence." Her research explores the diffusion of the international global gender equality framework in Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan and how these norms interact with local culture, including customary laws and Islam across Central Asia.
Eric McGlinchey is an assistant professor of government and politics in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. He is currently working on a book titled "Paying for Patronage: Regime Change in Central Asia" and is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-supported study, "The Effect of the Internet on Society: Incorporating Central Asia into the Global Perspective."
Michael Rouland is a postdoctoral fellow at Miami University's Havighurst Center. His dissertation, "Music and the Making of the Kazak Nation, 1920-1936," considers the Soviet policy of rooting both socialist and nationalist messages in public performance culture as part of a modernization campaign to promote nationalism, a constructed national vision, and a national state in Kazakhstan. His interests include filmic, literary, and musical expressions of Central Asian identity. [End Page 700]
Rebecca Saunders, in addition to being coeditor of CSSAAME, is the author of numerous articles and a forthcoming book, At God's Funeral: Lamentation and the Culture of Modernity, editor of The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, and an associate professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She is currently at work on a book titled "Scenes of Interrogation" that analyzes contemporary truth commissions from the perspective of literary and philosophical...
