Contributors
- Contributors
Janet A. Alexanian received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, in 2009.
Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp is an associate professor of history at Sonoma State University in California. She has published So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2007) and is working on a new book project, “Dangerous Foreigners in the Mexican Body Politic.” She has also published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Americas, and Law and History Review.
Ari Singh Anand is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 2008, where he completed a dissertation on ethical selfhood and the secular among Muslims in Mumbai. In addition to questions of ethical selfhood and modern social formations, he also maintains an interest in the relationships between language and power.
Chaider S. Bamualim is the former head of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture (CSRC) of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta, and a lecturer in the religion and politics of Indonesia in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Currently, he is a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore. His research interests are the dynamics of Islamic hegemony and the patterns of resistance demonstrated by indigenous people striving to revive their cultural heritage in defense of what they call a true and authentic identity in contemporary Jakarta and West Java, Indonesia.
Babak Elahi is associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he also teaches literature, film, and writing. His book The Fabric of American Literary Realism: Readymade Clothing, Social Mobility, and Assimilation was published by McFarland in 2009, and he is at work on a second book examining illness as metaphor in modern Iranian fiction and film. His essays have appeared in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Iranian Studies, College Literature, JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition, and Symploke.
Nina Farnia is the Equal Justice Works Litigation Fellow at the Impact Fund in Berkeley, California. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2009 with an MA in urban planning and a JD, having specialized in critical race studies. She has been published in the UCLA Women’s Law Journal, Middle East Report, the Daily Journal, Bad Jens Iranian Feminist Newsletter, and Tehran Avenue.
Alla Gadassik is a PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures program at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. She conducts research on the intersections of bodies and technologies in cinema and new media. Her most recent publications include a chapter on digital animation in Popular Ghosts (Continuum, 2010) and an article on televised corporeal interruptions in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
Michael Gilsenan is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University and an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. His most recent book is Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in a Lebanese Society (I. B. Tauris / University of California Press, 1996). He is currently working on Hadhrami migrations to Southeast Asia, 1850–1980. [End Page 550]
Andre Gingrich is the director of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) and a full professor at the University of Vienna. His research interests include anthropological methods and methodologies (including comparison), neo-nationalism in Europe and elsewhere, and the ethnography of southwestern Arabia. He is coeditor, with Marcus Banks, of Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond (Berghahn, 2006).
Johann Heiss is a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Social Anthropology, Vienna. He is the editor of Veränderung und Stabilität: Normen und Werte in islamischen Gesellschaften (Change and Stability: Norms and Values in Muslim Societies) (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005). He is currently the director of the research project “Shifting Memories, Manifest Monuments.”
Huub de Jonge is an associate professor in economic anthropology of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published several articles about Hadhramis in Indonesia and is coeditor of Transcending Borders: Arabs, Politics, Trade...
