About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Fowsia Abdulkadir is a policy analyst with the Public Health Agency of Canada and is also a doctoral student at the School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, with concentrations in political economy and gender and women’s studies. She has over two decades of experience in Canadian public policy analysis, and she has worked at the federal level in various capacities.
Rahma Abdulkadir (PhD) is Research Assistant Professor of Political Science in the division of Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research interests are in comparative politics and peace and conflict studies with a specialization in gender and politics. Her ongoing research focuses on projects that explore transitional justice in areas of failed statehood and barriers to gender equality in Sub-Saharan and North African countries.
Abdurahman M. Abdullahi (Baadiyow) is a former military officer (1971‒86) and an electronic engineer, Islamic scholar, and politician. He obtained a PhD degree in Islamic history from McGill University in Canada and an engineering degree from Somali National University. He cofounded Mogadishu University in 1997 and is chairman of its Board of Trustees. He is a prominent political figure in Somalia who participated in the presidential race in 2012, and he is also chairman of the National Unity Party, founded in February 2014. [End Page 199]
Caroline Ackley is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She is interested in Somalia, the MENA region, gender, new media, and cultivations of the self and moral personhood. More specifically, her work examines various forms of intimacy, morality, and the lived experience of Islamizing processes in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Avishai Ben-Dror is a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the academic teaching staff of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He also teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at Tel Aviv University, offering courses on the social and cultural history of the Middle East, the Nile Basin, and the Horn of Africa.
Abou Jeng is a human rights lawyer and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is also the coordinator of the Centre for Research, Development and Social Justice Advocacy (CreSpsa). He is the author of Peacebuilding in the African Union: Law, Philosophy and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Lidwien Kapteijns is Kendall/Hodder Professor of History at Wellesley College. She has published widely about the history of Somalia and Sudan. Her most recent book is Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).
Padraig McAuliffe is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool, UK. His main research interests are in transitional justice, rule of law reconstruction, and the interaction of international criminal tribunals with domestic judiciaries.
David W. Phillipson, DLitt, FBA, FSA, retired in 2006 from the University of Cambridge, where he had been professor of African archaeology and director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He now lives in North Yorkshire, being an emeritus fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and an honorary professor at University College London. A Fellow of the British Academy and a former president of the British Institute [End Page 200] in Eastern Africa, he has been engaged in the study of African archaeology for more than 50 years. For the past two decades, he has been actively engaged in the study of Ethiopia, a country that he first visited in 1969. In 2005, the Society of Antiquaries of London awarded him its Frend Medal for his research on the archaeology of Ethiopian Christianity. His most recent publications include an account of his archaeological excavations at Aksum, a detailed study of ancient Ethiopian churches, and a reevaluation of Aksumite civilization.
Jacob Steere-Williams is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the College of Charleston. He completed his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2011. His research focuses on themes of disease, medicine, and science during the long...
