Global Downtowns

List of Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS William Cunningham Bissell is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. His research interests include cities, cinema, and spatial dy namics; globalization a nd A frican film; modernity a nd de velopment; u rban planning a nd power. He is the author, most recently, of a book on the failures of colonial planning, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Z anzibar (Indiana University Press, 2010). Julian Brash is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University . He is the author of Bloomberg’s New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City (University of Georgia Press, 2011) a nd a rticles in Social Text, Urban Anthropology, Critique of A nthropology, and Antipode. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Graduate Center of City University of New York in 2006 and a Ma sters Degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University in 2000. Brian D. C hristens i s A ssistant P rofessor o f I nterdisciplinary St udies i n Human Ecology and Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research is focused on participation and empowerment in community and organizational settings, and has appeared in the American Journal of Community Psychology, Health Education & Behavior , the Journal of Community Psychology, and Youth & Society. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Youth & Adolescence and is currently co-editing a volume of New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development on youth civic development. Matthew J. Hill (MA Boston College, Ph.D. University of Chicago) is an urban anthropologist currently writing an ethnography on the politics of heritage in Havana’s historic center, Old Havana. He teaches and conducts research on c ities a nd gl obalization, heritage p olitics, a nd c omparative 346 Contributors urbanism in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published work on Havana’s historic center in Saskia Sassen’s Deciphering the Global. He is also principal of Civic Futures, a consulting firm which specializes in research and evaluation, strategic planning, and civic engagement processes in the not-for-profit and public sectors. He is a pa st dissertation fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Najib Hourani r eceived h is P h.D. i n Politics f rom N ew York University (2005). Today, he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Global Urban Studies Program at Michigan State University. He is currently writing a book on neoliberal urbanism in the Arab World, with a focus on Beirut and Amman. Ahmed Kanna teaches international studies and anthropology at the University of the Pacific. His research focuses on the intersections of culture, politics, and urbanism in the Middle East, especially the Persian/Arab Gulf region. His publications include Dubai, The City as Corporation (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Richard Lloyd is Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. His current research focuses on globalization and the American South. Francesc Magrinyà is Professor of Urban Planning at the Politechnic University of Catalonia. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning (University Paris I-ENPC, Paris) a nd ha s done research on u rban planning a nd networks, sustainable transport planning, development cooperation and human development and recently is the co-author of Cerdà: 150 Years of M odernity (2009). Gaspar Maza is Professor in the Program in Urban Anthropology at the Universitat Rovira i Vi rgili in Tarragona. He has worked extensively on issues of immigration and marginality in the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona and on issues of sport and society. He is currently working on a project on soccer and transnational identities in Europe and Morocco. Gary W. McDonogh, trained as an urban anthropologist, is Professor in the Growth and Structure of Cities Department at Bryn Mawr College and Coordinator of the Program in Latin American, Latin and Iberian Peoples and Cultures there. He has published widely on issues of urban form, imagery and conflict in Europe, the Americas and Asia, including Good Families of Contributors 347 Barcelona, Black and Catholic in Savannah, Iberian Worlds and Global Hong Kong (with Cindy Wong). Marina P eterson i s A ssistant P rofessor o f P erformance St udies i n t he School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University. She received her Ph.D...