Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors John Baily is lecturer in music at Goldsmith College, London. Trained in both ethnomusicology and ethnographic film, he is the author ofmany articles on Asian music and ofMusic ofAfghanistan: Professional Musicians in the City ofHerat (Cambridge UP, 1988). Roland Greene is professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Oregon at Eugene. He is the author of Post-Petrarchism: Origins and Innovations of the Western Lyric Sequence (Princeton UP, 1991), and has written on the history and theory of lyric poetry and on the intersections between politics and poetic convention in articles such as "Petrarchism among the Discourses of Imperialism." His current research interests in early modern, modernist, and contemporary poetry encompass questions of "minority" poetries in the Americas and the international and geopolitical dimensions of Petrarchism. Maud Mandel is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, where she is writing her dissertation on "Reconstituting Identities: A Comparative Study of French Armenian and French Jewish Communities Following the Genocides of World War I and II." Amit S. Rai has just finished his dissertation on "The Nation Unbound: Identity, Nationhood and the Post-colonial Condition" in Stanford's Program on Modern Thought and Literature, and will begin teaching this fall in the Program of Literature at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Social Research. He is the author of "An American Raj in Filmistan: Elvis in Indian Film" (Screen 35:1, 1994) and "Ruskin, Gandhi and the Simplicity of Use Value" (South Asia Research, 13:2, 1993). Christine Stevens is a partner in Stevens Social Research in Belair, South Australia. She wrote her 1990 dissertation in geography at the University of Adelaide, on young Cambodians, and has since published articles on the labor market experience and the academic attainment of Cambodian students, as well as studies of social policy on public housing. Her book on Cambodian refugees will be published under the auspices ofAustralia's Bureau of Immigration , Multicultural and Population Research in 1996. Daphne Winland is lecturer in the Department ofAnthropology at York University in Toronto. She received her PhD in sociology with a dissertation on religio-ethnic identity, continuity, and change Notes on Contributors among the Mennonites and Mormons. Her interests focus on the transnational discursive practices and cultural forces that shape diasporan identity. She is the author ofmany articles, including "Conversion and Community: Hmong Refugee Women and Christianity," Canadian Journal ofSociology (1994), and "Native Scholarship: The Enigma of Self-definition among Jewish and Mennonite Scholars," Journal of the History ofSociology (1992). ...