Notes On Contributors
- Notes On Contributors
Ahmed Afzal received a BA in Third World Studies from Vassar College, an MSc in cultural geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MPhil and a PhD in cultural anthropology from Yale University. He is lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Ethnic Studies at California State University, Stanislaus. He is the author of Lone Star Muslims: Transnational Lives and the South Asian Experience (New York University Press, 2014).
Bell Julian Clement is an historian of the public policies that shaped the twentieth-century American city and its place in the federal system. She teaches at The George Washington University.
Zareena Grewal is an Associate Professor of American Studies, Religious Studies, Middle East Studies, and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. A historical anthropologist, her research on the global Islamic revival cuts across the disciplines of American studies, anthropology, history, and Islamic studies. Her award-winning first book is Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority (New York University Press, 2013). Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Is the Quran a Good Book? Islam and the Limits of American Tolerance.
Karen Park is assistant professor of Theology and Religious Studies and Director of the American Studies Minor at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI. Park received her Ph.D. in the History of Christianity from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her interests include American Catholicism, sacred space, and the negotiation of authority and boundaries in American religious life. She is currently working on a project on Marian Shrines in the United States. She can be reached at Karen.Park@snc.edu. [End Page 4]
Sarah Schrank is Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach and the author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). Her forthcoming book, also with Penn, is entitled Naked: Natural Living and the American Cult of the Body.
Sunny Stalter-Pace is an associate professor in the English department at Auburn University. Her monograph, Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway, was published with University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. She is the book review editor for Transfers Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies. Her current research examines nostalgia and urban circulation in performance and film from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Joan Weston is a sociologist and taught at Ohio University and Oberlin College before joining the faculty of New College at the University of Alabama. Her research currently focuses on globalization in the South and the impact of War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement on the global retailer Walmart. [End Page 143]
