Contributors
- Contributors
Jake Batsell received his M.A. in Government (comparative politics) from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2001. His master's thesis examined democratic change in post-independence Zimbabwe. He now is a business reporter at the Seattle Times in Seattle, Washington.
Catherine Boone is associate professor of government at University of Texas at Austin. She writes and teaches on comparative political economy, and has published work on state formation, economic reform, and state-society relations in West Africa. In 20002001 she was visiting professor and researcher at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia en Economicas (CIDE), in Mexico City.
Jo Ellen Fair is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and former Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include US media coverage of confl ict in Africa and national media policies in various African countries.
Lisa Parks is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. Her book, Cultures in Orbit: Satellite Technologies and Visual Media is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Along with Shanti Kumar, she is editor of the forthcoming book, Planet TV: A Global Television Studies Reader, to be published by New York University Press.
Fred Judson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Alberta in 1982. He is the author of Cuba and the Revolutionary Myth (Westview, 1984). He has published articles and chapters on Latin American revolutionary ideologies, structural adjustment, liberation theology and human rights. His current research is on transitions in Mexico.
Kimberly Lanegran is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hood College. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Florida in 1997. Her research interests include democratization in South Africa, housing policies and urban life in the developing world, and international civil society. [End Page 177]
Sheldon G. Weeks is Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University of Botswana. He has lived and worked in East Africa, Southern Africa and Papua, New Guinea over the last 40 years. He earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1968. He has also carried out contracted research in West and Central Africa. His fi rst book was Divergence in Educational Development: The Case of Kenya and Uganda. Over 15 monographs, books and 100s of articles have been published since then. He has been on the Advisory Board of Africa Today since the 1960s and has guest edited a number of special issues of Africa Today. He currently is editor of the Southern African Review of Education, with Education, with Production, and Southern Africa Quaker News. He is a sociologist with an interest in education, development and change.
Dorcas B. Molefe is a Senior Lecturer, Foundations of Education, Molepolole College of Education, Botswana. She received her Masters in Education from the University of Botswana in 1996. Her research interests include the education of marginalized groups and language issues.
Muhammad S. Umar is assistant professor of Islam at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in History and Literature of Religion from Northwestern University in 1997. He has published on Islamic movements in Nigeria, and is currently working on transformation of Islamic education in Nigeria. [End Page 178]
