Contributors
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Karen Cardozo is a Research Associate at Five Colleges, Inc. She has taught humanities and interdisciplinary courses on all campuses of the Five College consortium of Western Massachusetts. Her scholarly publications include essays on American ethnic, literary and trauma studies, contemplative studies, cultural studies of science (with Banu Subramaniam), pedagogy, and the profession. Her current project integrates many of these areas, adapting the concerns of environmental justice for higher education reform.
Erin Dyke is a doctoral student in curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her main research interests are the role of compulsory schooling in capitalism and the possibilities for revolutionary subject formation within formal classrooms and in radical learning spaces like free skools and autonomous social centers.
Chris A. Eng is a graduate student in the PhD program in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is interested in questions of knowledge, institutionality, and the body, working particularly with Asian/American cultural productions through theorizations of queer discourses and critical ethnic studies.
Jessica Marie Falcone is an assistant professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. In addition to her ethnographic research on Garba-raas, she has published her fieldwork on Hindu American and Sikh American religious communities in the United States, Tibetan Buddhist groups in India, and disparate academic cultures. She is currently writing a book about a giant statue project being promoted in India by Tibetan Buddhist devotees.
Hasan Mahmud is a PhD candidate in sociology at University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation aims to develop a sociological perspective on migrants' remittances by examining the social determinants of remitting practices among Bangladeshi migrants in Los Angeles and Tokyo. His research interests include migration and development, transnationalism, identity politics, and ethnography. [End Page 135]
Yung-Yi Diana Pan is an assistant professor of sociology at Brooklyn College-City University of New York. Her research focuses primarily on immigrant adaptation, and race and ethnicity. Her current work interrogates how Asian American and Latino law students experience their socialization into an elite profession as racialized immigrants.
Jennifer Parker is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, Lehigh Valley.
Pia Sahni is a doctoral candidate in American studies at Brown University. Her dissertation focuses on the role of fashion and the performance of race, gender, and belonging in South Asian diasporic cultural productions. Her research interests include Asian American studies, feminist theory, and twentieth-century American literature.
Harrod J. Suarez is assistant professor of English at Oberlin College.
Banu Subramaniam is associate professor of women, gender, sexuality studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (Routledge, 2001) and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, her work is located at the intersections of biology, women's studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. Her current research focuses on the xenophobia and nativism that accompany frameworks on invasive plant species, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India. [End Page 136]
