Information about Contributors
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Ruth Behar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Born in Havana, Cuba, she grew up in New York City and has worked in Spain, Mexico, and Cuba. She is the author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story and The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart. Her recent book, An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba, blends memoir, ethnography, and photography to tell the story of her quest to get to know the Jewish community that remains on the island she left as a child. Together with Lucía Suárez, she has edited a new anthology, The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World. Her documentary, Adio Kerida/Goodbye Dear Love: A Cuban Sephardic Journey, has been shown in many countries and is distributed by Women Make Movies.
Coralynn V. Davis is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropology at Bucknell University. She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology at the University of Michigan, where she also received a graduate certificate in women's studies. She has held a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies at UC Santa Barbara (1997–8) and, more recently, a Research Associateship at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center (2005–6). Her ongoing ethnographic research with Maithili-speaking communities in Nepal has been supported by two Fulbright Grants. Her initial work in Nepal focused on women's development and tourism, while her more recent scholarship examines women's folk-tales and storytelling practices.
Lisa Gilman is Assistant Professor of Folklore and English at the University of Oregon. Her research examines intersections between performance, gender, and power. She is presently completing her book, Dancing in the Votes: Performance, Praise, and Gender in Contemporary Malawian Politics, and is in the initial phase of a new project on music and leisure in U.S. military life.
Teri Klassen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in material culture, language, gender, quilt history, popular culture, and practices that transcend private/public boundaries. Her dissertation work is on quiltmaking as practiced by whites and blacks in cotton-growing areas of the South from the Depression to the post– Civil Rights era. She views quiltmaking as an arena of aesthetic hybridity with the capacity for expressing sociocultural difference as well as shared values. [End Page 371]
