Contributors
- Contributors
Alon Confino is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His most recent books are Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014), which won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently working on a cultural history of the 1948 war in Palestine, placed within a global perspective of decolonization, partitions, forced migrations and human rights. (confino@virginia.edu)
Sara Jones is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (de Gruyter, 2011) and The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (Palgrave, 2014). Her current research focuses on the cultural, political and social aspects of remembering state socialism in the context of European cultures of memory. (s.jones.1@bham.ac.uk)
Johannes Heuman is an Assistant Professor at Stockholm University. His PhD dissertation, ”The Quest for Recognition: The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65,” on early Holocaust memory in France will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. (johannes.heuman@historia.su.se)
Barbara E. Mann is Associate Professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. She is the author of A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Space and Place in Jewish Studies (Rutgers University Press, 2012). (bamann@jtsa.edu) [End Page 182]
Mahua Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Asian and Asian-American Studies at Binghamton University, New York. She is the author of Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal (Duke University Press, 2008, and Zubaan, Delhi, 2008), and is currently working on her second book, provisionally entitled “Going Abroad” (Bidesh Kara): Circular Migration and Bangladeshi Transnational Contract Workers. (mssarkar@binghampton.edu) [End Page 183]
