Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Mai al-Nakib is Assistant Professor of English at Kuwait University. She is the author of three articles on Anaïs Nin; another titled “Outside in the Nation Machine: The Case of Kuwait” (Strategies: A Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics, 2000); and “Assia Djebar’s Musical Ekphrasis” (Comparative Literature Studies, 2005).
Jonathan Boyarin is Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Judaic and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of six books and co-author or co-editor of several others, including Powers of Diaspora, with Daniel Boyarin (U of Minnesota P, 2000); Thinking in Jewish (U of Chicago P, 1996); Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory (U of Minnesota P, 1992); and Polish Jews in Paris: The Ethnography of Memory (Indiana UP, 1991).
Johan Fischer is Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. He is the author of the forthcoming On the Halal Frontier: Consuming Malays in London (Macmillan) and of numerous articles including “We Shift the Channel When Mahathir Appears: The Political Internet and Censorship in Malaysia” (Akademica, 2009).
Bed Prasad Giri is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. He is the author of “Imagining South Asia” (Journal of Contemporary Thought, 2007) and co-editor of Thinking Territory: Some Reflections (Pencraft International, 2009).
Steven Kaplan is Professor of African Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the co-author, with Haggai Erlich and Hagar Salamon, of Ethiopia: Christianity, Islam, Judaism (Open UP, 2003; also published in Hebrew in 2003 and in Russian in 2006); author of The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century (New York UP, 1992) and The Monastic Holy Man and the Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia (Franz Steiner, 1984); co-author, with Ruth Westheimer, of Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition (New York UP, 1992); and author of Les Falāshās (Brepols, 1990). [End Page 445]
Akram Fouad Khater is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University and Director of the Middle East Studies Program there. He is the author of Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Making of a Lebanese Middle Class, 1861–1921 (U of California P, 2001) and Sources in the History of the Middle East (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), as well as of several articles including “From House to Mistress of the House: Gender and Class in 19th Century Lebanon” (International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1996).
Robin Ostrow is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Stories to Pass On: Remembering and Forgetting in Canada; editor of (Re)visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in the New Millennium (U of Toronto P, 2007); and author of Die Ostdeutsche Juden und die deutsche Wiedervereinigung (Wichern, 1996).
Angel Adams Parham is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University in New Orleans. She is the author of “Race, Memory, and Family History” (Social Identities, 2008) and of “Diaspora, Community and Communication: Internet Use in Transnational Haiti (Global Networks, 2004).
David Parker is Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of Through Different Eyes: The Cultural Identity of Young Chinese People in Britain (Aldershot/Avebury, 1995); co-editor, with Miri Song, of Rethinking Mixed Race (Pluto, 2001); and author of more than twenty articles and book chapters, including “Diaspora, Dissidence, and the Dangers of Cosmopolitanism” (Asian Studies Review, 2003).
Ezra Tawil is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance (Cambridge UP, 2006) and of such articles as “Domestic Frontier Romance, or, How the Sentimental Heroine Became White” (Novel, 1998) and “Captain Babo’s Cabin: Racial Sentiment and the Politics of Misreading in Benito Cereno” (Leviathan, 2006).
Esther Whitfield is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is the author of Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction (U of Minnesota P, 2008); the co-editor, with Jacqueline Loss, of New Short Fiction from Cuba (Northwestern UP, 2007...
