Contributors
- Contributors
On Barak is a senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of On Time: Technology and Temporality in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2013). His current book project, “Coalonialism,” addresses energy and empire before the age of oil.
Lisa Björkman is a postdoctoral research fellow at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her book, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millenial Mumbai, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Antoinette Burton is a professor of history and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the editor, most recently, of The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2014).
Augusto Espiritu is the head of the Department of Asian American Studies and an associate professor of the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the book Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals (Stanford University Press, 2005). He has also published articles in Diaspora, Radical History Review, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Amerasia Journal, as well as in several anthologies. His current research interests involve transnationalism, US empire, and intellectual history in the Pacific and the Caribbean. He is currently a series editor for “Southeast Asians in the Diaspora” (Brill) and has taught history for the global education program Semester at Sea.
Rosalind Fredericks is an urban geographer and an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She is the editor (with Mamadou Diouf) of Les Arts de la Citoyenneté au Sénégal: Espaces Contestés et Civilités Urbaines (Editions Karthala, 2013) and The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). She is completing a manuscript titled “Trash Matters: Infrastructures and Arts of Citizenship in Dakar, Senegal.”
Amal N. Ghazal is an associate professor of history at Dalhousie University. She earned her BA from the American University of Beirut and her MA and PhD from the University of Alberta. She is the author of Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1880s–1930s (Routledge, 2010). She has received research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. She specializes in modern Arab intellectual history. Her current research project focuses on religious reform and nationalism in the Mzab Valley in Algeria.
Julian Go is a professor of sociology at Boston University, where he is also a faculty affiliate in Asian studies and American studies. Besides Patterns of Empire, his other works include American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2008) and the coedited volume The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2003).
Nile Green is a professor of history at UCLA and director of the UCLA Program on Central Asia. He is the author of six monographs, including Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean (Cambridge University Press, 2011), which won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani award and the Association for Asian Studies’ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy award. Having traveled and researched among Muslim communities from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran to Morocco, Syria, Yemen, and China, he brings Islamic history into conversation with global history.
Jonathan Hyslop is a professor of sociology at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He also holds the honorary post of Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria. Hyslop worked for many years at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He has published widely on modern South Africa, in periodicals including Journal of Global History, Journal of Historical Sociology, and Public Culture. Recently, he has contributed chapters to The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi (2011) and The Cambridge Companion to [End Page 652] Nelson Mandela (2014). He is the author of Notorious Syndicalist: J. T. Bain, a Scottish Rebel in Colonial South Africa (Jacana, 2004). His e-mail address is jhyslop@colgate.edu.
Sunila S. Kale is an assistant professor in the Jackson...
