Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Christine Chivallon is a geographer and currently a researcher in the CNRS's Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine near Bordeaux, France. She is the author of Espace et Identité à la Martinique: Paysannerie des mornes et reconquête collective, 1840-1960 (Éditions CNRS, 1998) and of numerous articles, including "Images of Creole Diversity and Spatiality: A Reading of Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco" (Ecumene 1997); "Bristol and the Eruption of Memory: Making the Slave-Trading Past Visible" (Social and Cultural Geography 2001); "Du territoire au réseau : comment penser l'identité antillaise" (Cahiers d'études africaines 1997); and, on a topic also covered in her essay in this issue of Diaspora, "La diaspora noire des Amériques : réflexions sur le modèle de l'hybridité de Paul Gilroy" (l'Homme : revue française d'anthropologie 2002).
Armine Ishkanian is a lecturer at the Centre for Civil Society of the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000, with a dissertation titled Hearths and Modernity: The Role of Women in NGOs in Post-Soviet Armenia. She is the author of several forthcoming book chapters: "Working at the Global-Local Intersection: The Challenges Facing Women in Armenia's NGO Sector," in Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation-Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism, edited by C. Nechemias and K. Kuehnast (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Press); "Gendered Transitions: The Impact of Political and Socio-economic Transitions on Gender Relations in the Post-Soviet Republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus," in Eurasia in Transition: Conflict, Security and Development, edited by M.P. Avineh and Henk Houweling (De Sitter Publications); 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 (Routledge), as well as of "Armenian Women's Civic Organizations and Their Role in Nation Building," in Voices of Armenian Women, edited by Barbara J. Merguerian and Joy Renjilian-Burgy (AIWA Press, 2000), and "Importing Civil Society? The Emergence of Armenia's NGO Sector and the Impact of Western Aid on Its Development" (Armenian Forum: A Journal of Contemporary Affairs, 2003).
Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (University of California Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Diane Mines, of Everyday Life in South Asia (Indiana University Press, 2002). Some of her articles are "Being a Widow and Other Life Stories: The Interplay between Lives and Words" (Anthropology and Humanism, 2001); "The Making and Unmaking of Persons: Notes on Aging and Gender in North India" (Ethos, 1997); and "The Beggared Mother: Older Women's Narratives in West Bengal" (Oral Tradition, 1997).
Gabriel "Gabi" Sheffer is a professor of political science at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published several books in Hebrew and English on Israeli foreign policy and relations and on ethnonational diasporas, including the Jewish Diaspora. In 1986, he edited and contributed an essay to the pioneering volume Modern Diasporas in International Politics (St. Martin's Press). He is also the author of Moshe Sharett: Biography of a Political Moderate (Oxford University Press, 1996) and of Diaspora Politics: At Home Abroad (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
