Contributors
- Contributors
Anuj Bhuwania is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi.
Partha Chatterjee is a professor of anthropology and MESAAS at Columbia University, and an honorary professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Among his books are Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse (University of Minnesota Press, 1986), The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton University Press, 1993), The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World (Columbia University Press, 2004), and The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power (Princeton University Press, 2012).
Sandipto Dasgupta is a lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. From 2014, he will be a Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society and British Academy.
Rohit De is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Yale University. His research was supported by the Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge.
Madeleine Dobie teaches French and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Foreign Bodies. Women, Language and Culture in French Orientalism (Stanford University Press, 2001), Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture (Cornell University Press, 2010), and Relire Mayotte Capécia: Une Femme des Antilles dans l’espace colonial français, 1916–1955 (Armand-Colin, 2012). She is currently working on a book titled “After Violence: Memory, Culture, and Media in Contemporary Algeria.”
Thushara Hewage recently completed his doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Columbia University. He currently teaches in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School.
Rajkamal Kahlon is an American artist and educator based in Germany. Kahlon’s drawings, paintings, and performative installations use overlapping strategies of critical aesthetics and absurdist humor to interrupt the pedagogical function of texts and images found within historical and contemporary colonial archives. Visit www.rajkamalkahlon.com.
Maya Mikdashi received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University. She is currently a Mellon postdoc and Director of Graduate Studies at the New York University Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. She is codirector of the documentary film About Baghdad and cofounder and editor of Jadaliyya ezine.
M’hamed Oualdi is an assistant professor at Princeton University. He teaches the social and political history of post-1500 North Africa in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and History. He has published Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011). His research interests include the social effects of imperial transitions and state reforms in the nineteenth century.
Suren Pillay is an associate professor in the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. His current research focuses on political violence and citizenship; the politics of knowledge production; and African intellectual histories in the postcolonial period. He is coeditor, with Chandra Sriram, of Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa (James Currey, 2010).
Jeffrey Sacks is an associate professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish (Fordham University Press, forthcoming) and has published a translation of a volume of poetry by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? (Archipelago, 2006). His writing has been published in diacritics, MLN, CR: The New Centennial Review, Arab Studies Journal, Middle Eastern Literatures, and elsewhere. [End Page 432]
Alexis Wick is an assistant professor of history at American University of Beirut. He is the author of History at Sea: Navigating the Age of Empires (University of California Press, forthcoming). He has published essays in the Journal of Ottoman Studies, Feminist Review, and African Identities, among other journals.
Veli N. Yashin is a preceptor in the Center for the Curriculum and a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, where he is also affiliated with the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He is currently completing a dissertation that examines the crises and transformations of political and authorial...
