Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Dirk Hoerder is Professor of Social Sciences, with a focus on North American Studies and migration research, at the University of Bremen, Germany, and has taught at several Canadian and US universities. He is the author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Duke UP, 2002); Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada (McGill-Queen's UP, 1999); and Crowd Action in Revolutionary Massachusetts (Academic P, 1977). He has edited or co-edited fifteen books and major journal issues, including (with J. Nagler) People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge UP, 1995); (with L. Page) European Migrants: Global and Local Perspectives (Northeastern UP, 1996); and Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies (Greenwood P, 1985).
Rainer Münz is Professor of Demography at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He is the author of several books, including European Migration in the Late 20th Century (Edward Elgar, 1994); Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy: US and German Policies toward Countries of Origin (Berghahn, 1997); and Paths to Inclusion: The Integration of Migrants in the United States and Germany (Berghahn, 1998); he has also co-edited (with Rainer Ohliger) Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants (forthcoming, Frank Cass, 2003). He has served as a Member of the German Commission on Immigration Reform (2000-1) and on the academic advisory boards of the International Organisation for Migration, the Daimler-Benz Foundation, the Association of German Public Pension Funds, and the Center for Social Policy, Bremen.
Rainer Ohliger is a researcher with the interdisciplinary Forschergruppe Gesellschaftsvergleich (Research Group for the Comparative Study of Societies), based at Humboldt University, Berlin. He specializes in international migrations, interethnic relations, and problems of transition in Central Europe. He is the co-editor (with J. Motte and A. V. Oswald) of 50 Jahre Bundesrepublik—50 Jahre Einwanderung [50 Years of the Federal Republic of Germany—50 Years of Migration] (Campus Books, 1999); and the author of several articles, including "Representing the National Other: Textbooks and the Formation of Ethno-National Identity in Germany, 1871-1945," Internationale Schulbuchforschung 21 (1999): 103-24.
Martin Sökefeld is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg. He is the author of Ein Labyrinth von Identitäten: Zwischen Lanbesitz, Religion und Kaschmir-Konflikt in Nordpakistan [A Maze of Identities: Between Land-Ownership, Religion, and the Kashmir Conflict in North Pakistan] (Koppe, 1997) and of articles on the postcolonial history of northern Pakistan, such as "Rumours and Politics on the Northern Frontier: The British, Pakhtun Wali and Yaghestan," Modern Asian Studies 36 (2002). His current research deals with the politics of identity in general and of the Alevi diaspora in Germany, in particular. His articles on these topics include "Debating Self, Identity and Culture in Anthropology," Current Anthropology 40 (1999) and "Reconsidering Identity," Anthropos 96 (2001).
Shari Stone-Mediatore is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the author of Reading across Borders: Storytelling and Postcolonial Struggles (forthcoming, Palgrave / St. Martin's) and of articles such as "Hannah Arendt and the Public Role of Storytelling," The Civic Arts Review (1999) and "Chandra Mohanty and the Revaluing of 'Experience,'" Hypatia 13:2 (2001).
