African Migrations: Patterns and Perspectives

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Afe Adogame is Associate Professor in World Christianity/Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches Indigenous Religions, African Christianity, and Religion in the New African Diaspora. He is General Secretary of the African Association for the Study of Religion. Cheikh Anta Babou is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on francophone West Africa since the nineteenth century and on contemporary African diasporas in France and the United States. Beth A. Buggenhagen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University. Her research interests include circulation and value; diaspora and transnationalism; gender and neoliberal global capital; Islam; and visuality . Donald Carter is Professor of Africana studies and Chief Diversity Officer at Hamilton College. His research interests include cultural theory, racial formation, visual culture, invisibility, and transnational cultural politics. Hansjörg Dilger is Junior Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include anthropology of religion (especially Pentecostalism and Islam) and medical anthropology (especially HIV/AIDS, anthropology of biomedicine, transnationalization of health, medicine, and healing). Isaie Dougnon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences , University of Bamako. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Florida in 2011–12. Jane Freedman is Marie Curie Chair in the Centre de Recherches Politiques at Université de Paris 1, Sorbonne. Her research has focused on national and European immigration and asylum policies, gender and migration , gender in asylum, and refugee policies. Cindy Horst is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and leads the Migration Research Group. She is a social anthropol- Contributors 288 ogist whose current research interests focus on humanitarian assistance practices; cultures of migration; interactions between forced migrants and the refugee regime; and political transnational practices. Abdoulaye Kane is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida. His recent research interests cover issues of diasporic identity formation, religious transnational movements, border crossings, and immigration policies. Loren B. Landau is Director of the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. A political scientist by training, his research explores migration, belonging, and sovereignty in Africa. Todd H. Leedy is Associate Director and Senior Lecturer in the Center for African Studies at University of Florida. His current interests include transnational Zimbabweans in southern Africa; urban life, service provision , and city management in Africa; and African modernist architecture. Rubin Patterson is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Toledo. His present and recent research interests include brain circulation , transnational societies, technology and development in southern Africa, and comparative African-Asian development. Rachel R. Reynolds is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University. Her work ranges from ethnographic studies of adult (im)migrants to questions of how to research, interpret , and express children’s experiences of migration. Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University. In 2002, he won the American Anthropological Association’s Robert B. Textor Prize for his book Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City. Bruce Whitehouse is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University . He previously worked for the U.S. Peace Corps in Mali (1997–2000) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. (1993–1996). Scott M. Youngstedt is Professor of Anthropology at Saginaw Valley State University. His primary work explores the ways by which migrant Hausa create modernities, construct communities in diaspora, and negotiate personal identities in the context of neoliberal globalization. ...