Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Paulla Ebron is assistant professor ofanthropology at Stanford University, where she teaches courses on Africa and its diaspora, as well as feminist and social theory. She has published articles on performing gender and on reading across minority discourses, and is the author of others on "African" performances in transnational contexts, African music, and the construction of African American culture. Fran Markowitz is assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University in Israel . She is the author ofA Community in Spite ofItself: Soviet Jewish Emigres in New York (Smithsonian Press) and of numerous articles on the Jewish diaspora in Russia. She is currently studying Bosnian Muslim refugees in Israel. Jenny Sharpe is associate professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. Born in London, she lived in Bombay and Beirut and, after the early years of the Lebanese Civil War, in the US. She is the author oíAllegories ofEmpire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (University of Minnesota Press), and of articles on Rushdie, colonial resistance, and the aftermath of the invasion of Grenada. María de los Angeles Torres is associate professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago. She served as executive director of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington's Commission on Latino Affairs during 1983-87, while working on her doctorate, which she received from the University of Michigan in 1986. She is completing a book, 7n the Land of Mirrors: Cuban Exile Politics in the US. She has written on Cuban and other Latin American communities in the US and on US foreign policy toward Cuba, and is also the author of articles and reviews in 77ie Nation and the Miami Herald. She is coproducing a documentary film, tentatively titled "The Creative Tension," about Cuban women emigrants and the island homeland. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author Notes on Contributors of 7n the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-ofthe -Way Place (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor (with Faye Ginsburg) of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture (Beacon, 1990), as well as author of numerous articles on such topics as "Gender and Performance in Meratus Dispute Settlement" and "The Vision of a Shaman Woman." Steven Venturino is a doctoral candidate in the English Department of Loyola University Chicago. He has worked as an indexer and text editor, and has written on American literature, literary theory, and postcolonial subjectivity. He is working on a dissertation that explores Chinese and Tibetan translations and readings of western literary theory. ...