Notes on Contributors
Sebouh Aslanian is finishing his dissertation, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: Circulation and the Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants of New Julfa/Isfahan, 1605–1747, in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Columbia University. He is the author of nine publications in English and Armenian, including "'The Salt in a Merchant's Letter': The Art of Merchant Correspondence, Courier Networks and their Role in Julfan Economy and Society" (Journal of World History, forthcoming 2007); "Social Capital, 'Trust' and the Role of Networks in Julfan Trade: Informal and Semiformal Institutions at Work" (Journal of Global History, 2006); and "Dispersion History and the Polycentric Nation: The Role of Simeon Yerevantsi's Girk or Kochi Partavjar in the Armenian National Revival of the 18th Century" (Bazmavep [Venice: Bibliothèque d'arménologie] 2004).
Peter Rafael Dalleo will be an assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University in Fall 2006. He is the co-author (with Elena Machado Saéz) of Sell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post–Sixties Latino/a Literature (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming 2007). He co-edited a special issue of Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature in 2002 and is the author of fifteen articles and reviews, including one on George Lamming forthcoming in Small Axe; "Ways of Looking: The Global Vision of V.S. Naipaul" (South Asian Review, 2005); and "How Cristina Garcia Lost Her Accent, and Other Latina Conversations" (Latino Studies, 2005).
David S. Fitzgerald is assistant professor of sociology at UC San Diego. He is the author of a dozen publications, including "Inside the Sending State: The Politics of Mexican Emigration Control" (International Migration Review, 2006); "Rethinking Emigrant Citizenship" (NYU Law Review, 2006); "Nationality and Migration in Modern Mexico" (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2005); "Beyond Transnationalism: Mexican Hometown Politics at an American Labor Union" (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2004); and, with Roger Waldinger, "Transnationalism in Question" (American Journal of Sociology, 2004).
Armine Ishkanian is Lecturer on NGOs at the Social Policy Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics. She is the author of a dozen articles and book chapters, including "Mobile
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Motherhood: Armenian Women's Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet Period" (Diaspora, 2002) and "Helping the Homeland: The Impact of Transnational Diasporic Activism on Armenia's Post-Soviet Transition" in Transnationalism and Diaspora: Central Asia and the Caucasus, edited by Turaj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale (Methuen, 2006).
David D. Laitin is Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. He is the author of some seventy articles and five books: Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell UP, 1998); Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa (Cambridge UP, 1992); Hegemony and Culture: The Politics of Religious Change among the Yoruba (U of Chicago P, 1986); Politics, Language and Thought: The Somali Experience (U of Chicago P, 1977); and, with Said Samatar, Somalia: Nation in Search of a State (Westview, 1987).
Stephen C. Lubkemann is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of a dozen articles and book chapters, including "The Moral Economy of Portuguese Postcolonial Return" (Diaspora, 2002); "The Transformation of Transnationality among Mozambican Migrants in South Africa" (Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2000) and "Race, Class, and Kin in the Negotiation of 'Internal Strangerhood' among Portuguese Retornados, 1975–2000" in Europe's Invisible Migrants, edited by A. Smith (U of Amsterdam P, 2000).
