About The Contributors
- About The Contributors
Nicholas Birger (nicholas.r.birger@gmail.com) is a junior officer in the US Navy currently training to serve aboard nuclear submarines. Nick holds a Master of Public Policy degree with a concentration in International and Global Affairs from the Harvard Kennedy School. Before attending Harvard, Nick graduated as the valedictorian of the US Naval Academy Class of 2011. He has interned at the Supreme Court, served as a Special Military Liaison to the State Department, volunteered for veterans’ issues, and worked as a field analyst for The Child is Innocent, a charity that sponsors war-affected children in northern Uganda.
Nikolaos Biziouras (bizioura@usna.edu) is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy. Prior to coming to the Naval Academy, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the International Security and Intra-State Conflict Programs of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. He received his BA in Political Economy and Rhetoric and his M. and PhD in Political Science, all from the University of California at Berkeley. His research deals with the economic foundations of violent ethnic conflict.
Kennedy Chinyowa (kennedy.chinyowa@wits.ac.za) is currently the head of the Division of Dramatic Art and Senior Lecturer in Applied Drama and Theatre at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Previously, he was an NRF postdoctoral research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2006–7) and Tshwane University of Technology (2008-9). He has taught at other universities, including the University of Zimbabwe and Griffith University (Australia). Kennedy was a visiting scholar in the Centre for Applied Theatre [End Page 219] Research at Griffith University (2001-2005) where he obtained his PhD degree in Theatre for Development.
Kathryn Coe (coek@iupui.edu) is Professor in the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University- Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her doctoral degree is in cultural anthropology and evolutionary biology. Her research interests include studies of the transition between trial law and law of the early state and culture and traditions (e.g., art, kinship, and moral systems), and natural selection.
Okaka Opio Dokotum (okakadok@yahoo.com) is a senior lecturer in the Kyambogo University Literature Department where he teaches literature and film and is department head. Dokotum completed his PhD in 2008 from Northern Illinois University; his dissertation was titled “Sembene’s Xala: Alternatives to the Representation of Africa in Colonial and Neo-colonial Novels and Films.” Dokotum was awarded the ACLS Africa Humanities Program (AHP) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2010 and did research in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Africa on “Contemporary Western Literary and Filmic Representations of Africa: Reproducing the Colonial Template.” His scholarly work is an interdisciplinary confluence of language, literature, film, and history.
Khadijah Elshabazz (khelshab@indiana.edu) is a graduate student in the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Marisa O. Ensor (mensor@utk.edu) is an applied and sociolegal anthropologist with broad interests in forced and voluntary migration, human rights and humanitarianism, with a focus on childhood, youth and gender. She is currently based at the Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict of the University of Tennessee. Her recent publications include the edited volumes African Childhoods: Education, Development, Peacebuilding and the Youngest Continent (2012), Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability (2010), with Elżbieta M. Goździak. Her on-going longitudinal research in South Sudan and northern Uganda examines the interconnections between displacement, transitional justice and sustainable peace, as differentially experienced by young returnees and local youth. [End Page 220]
Julia Hanebrink (jhanebri@utk.edu) is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology with a concentration in disasters, displacement and human rights at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is also the program coordinator and Uganda site director for the National Institutes of Health Minority Health International Research Training Program at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee. Trained in ethnographic as well as biological anthropology, the focus of her research in Uganda includes health-seeking behaviours and healthcare perspectives; medical syncretism; and psycho-social initiatives for...
