Contributors
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Omolade Adunbi is an assistant professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) and faculty associate of the Program in the Environment (PitE) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His first book, Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria (Indiana, 2015), examines the relationship between oil as a mythic commodity and how the wealth it generates results in competing claims over its ownership in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. His current research focuses on China’s interest in oil and other resources in Africa.
Alexandra Cosima Budabin is adjunct professor and research fellow at the Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton. She holds a Ph.D. in politics from the New School for Social Research. Her work focuses on nonstate actors in human rights, development, humanitarianism, genocide, and conflict. She is a core researcher of the Research Network on Celebrity and North–South Relations.
Bilal Butt is an assistant professor of natural resources and environment and a faculty affiliate of the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He is a people-environment geographer with regional specialization in sub-Saharan Africa and technical expertise in geospatial technologies. His general research interests, which lie at the intersection of the natural and social sciences, track questions of how people and wildlife are coping with and adapting to changing climates, livelihoods, and ecologies in arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. His current projects investigate the spatiality of livelihood strategies among pastoral peoples under regimes of increasing climatic variability and uncertainty.
Amal Hassan Fadlalla is associate professor of anthropology, women’s studies, and Afroamerican and African studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (Wisconsin, 2007), and the co-editor (with Howard Stein) of Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa (Routledge, 2012). She has written numerous articles on gender, identities, and transnational human rights and humanitarianism in the context of the Sudan. She is currently finalizing a book manuscript on Sudanese activism in the diaspora.
Keith Hart is an anthropologist by training and a self-taught economist who lives in Paris. He is Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at the London School of Economics and international director of the human economy program at the University of Pretoria. He is best known for having contributed the concept of an informal economy to development studies. He has published extensively on money. His recent books include The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide (Polity, 2010); Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique (Polity, 2011); People, Money [End Page 175] and Power in the Economic Crisis (Berghahn, 2014); and Economy for and against Democracy (Berghahn, 2015).
Joseph Morgan Hodge is associate professor of modern British and British imperial history and chair of the history department at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Ohio, 2007). He is also co-editor along with Brett Bennett of Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and co-editor with Gerald Hödl and Martina Kopf of Developing Africa: Concepts and Practices in Twentieth-Century Colonialism (Manchester, 2014). In addition, he has published several articles in leading historical journals, including the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Agricultural History, and the Journal of Modern European History. He is currently working on a new book project, ‘‘After Empire: Late Colonial Experts, Postcolonial Careering, and the Making of International Development,’’ which explores the subsequent careers of former British colonial officials and technical experts who went on to work for various international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank or for British donor agencies and consultancy firms, after they retired from the colonial service.
Nadine Naber is associate professor in the gender and women’s studies program and the Asian American studies program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is co-founder of Arab and Muslim American studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (New York University...
