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About the Contributors R. James Bingen (Ph.D., Political Science, UCLA) is professor in the Department of Resource Development, Michigan State University. He lived in Segou with his family in 1975-76 where he studied Operation Riz-Segou with a grant from the Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellowship Program. His publications on Mali include Food Production and Rural Development in the Sahel: The Case ofOperation Riz-Segou, a chapter on the OHVN in Technology Transfer and Public Policy, and numerous monographs and journal articles. Andrew F. Clark (Ph.D., History, MSU) is associate professor ofAfrican and global history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He has lived, traveled, and researched extensively in Senegambia, Guinea, and Mali. A revised version of Clark's dissertation, From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920, was published by the University Press of America. He is co-author of the Historical Dictionary ofSenegal (2nd edition) and has written numerous journal articles on Senegambian and Malian history and society. John Uniack Davis (Ph.D., Political Science, MSU) has spent more than five years living and working in West Africa. He is currently based in Niger, working as a consultant in the fields of democratic governance, monitoring, and evaluation. Davis's research and dissertation focused on local organizations and democracy in Mali. Niama Nango DembtHe (Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, MSU) is visiting assistant professor of agricultural economics at MSU, based in Bamako, Mali. He directs MSU's USAID-funded program on strengthening agricultural market information and food policy analysis in Mali. 377 378 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Salifou B. Diarra (M.S., Agricultural Economics, MSU) is director of Mali's agricultural market information system, the Observatoire du Marche Agricole (OMA). He has directed OMA, and its predecessor, the Systeme d'lnformation sur Ie Marche (SIM), since SIM's inception in 1989. Cheick Oumar Diarrah (Doctorate, Political Science, University of Bordeaux) has been the ambassador from the Republic of Mali to the United States since 1995. Earlier he served as advisor to the Malian prime minister and chief of staff to the minister of National Education. His most recent publications include Le defi democratique au Mali (Mali's Democratic Challenge) and Vers la llleme Republique du Mali (Toward Mali's Third Republic),_both published by Editions L'Harmattan, Paris. Georges Dimithe (Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, MSU) was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, MSU, after receiving his degree. He is currently an economist for the International Fertilizer Development Center, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where he is helping to design a strategic framework for promoting the emergence and development of sustainable agricultural input supply systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Josue Dione (Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, MSU) is principal policy economist with the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, where he directs food security policy analysis. Dione, who has held the rank of visiting associate professor of agricultural economics at MSU, is widely regarded as the leading West African expert on food security policy analysis. Maria Grosz-Ngate (Ph.D., Anthropology, MSU) is assistant director at the Center for African Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville). Her research has focused on social and cultural transformation in the Segou region of Mali. John Hanson (Ph.D., History, MSU) is associate professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington. His publications include Migration, Jihad and Muslim Authority in West Africa: the Fukane Colonies in Karta, and After the Jihad: the Reign ofAhmad al-Kabir in the Western Sudan, edited, translated , and annotated with David Robinson. His current research includes work on Mande peoples living in Ghana. Ghislaine Lydon is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Michigan State University. She recently spent twenty months doing research in West Africa (Mali, [52.54.111.228] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 20:42 GMT) ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 379 Mauritania, and Senegal) and is now writing a dissertation on trans-Saharan trading networks in western Africa. Nancy Mezey is a doctoral student in sociology at Michigan State University. Her areas of interest are families, sexualities, and African studies. As a Peace Corps Volunteer she lived in the Segou region of Mali from 1988-90 and worked on agricultural and health/nutrition projects. Mezey returned to Mali in 1992 and in 1994 to conduct her master's research on health-seeking behavior in Sansanding. She is currently completing her dissertation. David Rawson (Ph.D., Political Science, American University) was U.S. ambassador to the...