Contributors
- Contributors
Camron Michael Amin is an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 (University Press of Florida, 2002) and is a contributing editor (along with Ben Fortna and Elizabeth Frierson) for The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Lois Beck is a professor of anthropology at Washington University in Saint Louis. She has conducted research among Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralists in Iran since 1970, including on twelve occasions after the revolution in 1978-79. She is the author of The Qashqa'i of Iran (Yale University Press, 1986); Nomad: A Year in the Life of a Qashqa'i Tribesman in Iran (University of California Press, 1991); and "Nomads Move On: Qashqa'i Tribespeople in Post-revolutionary Iran" (unpublished manuscript). She is a coeditor of Women in the Muslim World (Harvard University Press, 1978); Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800 (University of Illinois Press, 2003); and Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (University of Illinois Press, 2004).
Madeleine Dobie is the author of Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism (Stanford University Press, 2001) and of articles on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century French and Francophone literature and culture. She is an associate professor of French at Columbia University. Her current book project is a study of the representation, and nonrepresentation, of the Atlantic colonies and slavery in pre-Revolutionary French literature, philosophy, and material culture.
Willem Floor has written many books and articles on the social and economic history of Iran. His most recent books include Public Health in Qajar Iran (Mage, 2004), Agriculture in Qajar Iran (Mage, 2003), The History of Theater in Iran (Mage, 2005), and Wall Paintings in Qajar Iran (Mazda, 2005).
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada. He has published numerous books and articles. His most recent books include The Terror of Neoliberalism (Paradigm, 2004); Take Back Higher Education (cowritten with Susan Giroux; Palgrave, 2005); Against the New Authoritarianism (Arbeiter Ring, 2005); America on the Edge (Palgrave, 2006); and Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism (Paradigm, 2006). His primary research areas are cultural studies, youth studies, critical pedagogy, popular culture, media studies, social theory, and the politics of higher and public education.
Jonathan Gosnell teaches language and contemporary culture in the Department of French Studies at Smith College. His primary field of research is the production of French and Francophone identities outside of metropolitan France. In 2002 he published a book titled The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954 (University of Rochester Press). His current scholarly projects examine Francophone postcolonial cultures in the New World.
Abdoulaye Gueye is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Les intellectuels africains en France (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001) and of several journal articles and book chapters.
Julia Huang is a student at Yale University who majors in anthropology and Middle Eastern languages (Persian, Turkish, Arabic) and societies. She accompanied Lois Beck during her anthropological research in Iran on ten occasions from 1991 through 2004. Huang writes about the socialization of children, formal education, and women's roles in Qashqa'i society. She is the author of "Weaving Memories: Five Tribes-women in Iran" (unpublished manuscript).
Valérie Orlando is an associate professor of French and Francophone literature at the Universtiy of Maryland-College Park. She was previously an associate professor of French and Francophone studies and director of women's studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is the [End Page 338] author of Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb (Ohio University Press, 1999) and Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003). She is currently working on a book titled "Political Dissidence, Memory, and Cultural (Dis)location in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb."
Rebecca Saunders, in addition to being a coeditor of CSSAAME, is the author of numerous articles and a forthcoming book...
