Contributors
- Contributors
Assefaw Bariagaber is professor of diplomacy and international relations at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University. He received his PhD in political science from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1990. He is the author of Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, Exile, and Repatriation in the Horn of Africa (Ashgate). He has published numerous scholarly articles on conflicts, refugee formations, and United Nations peace operations in Africa in such journals as the Journal of Modern African Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Black Studies, and International Migration. He may be contacted by e-mail at: Assefaw.Bariagaber@shu.edu.
Victoria Bernal is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her PhD from Northwestern University. Her research interests include civil society, new media, war and militarism, gender, diaspora, and Islam. Her book Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2014) addresses transformations of sovereignty and citizenship associated with migration and new media. She is coeditor with Inderpal Grewal of the anthology Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism, forthcoming from Duke University Press. She is the editor of Contemporary Cultures, Global Connections: Anthropology for the 21st Century, an anthology for teaching anthropology (Cognella, 2012). She has carried out ethnographic research in Eritrea, Tanzania, the Sudan, and cyberspace. She may be contacted by e-mail at: vbernal@uci.edu.
David M. Bozzini is a postdoctoral fellow at CUNY Graduate Center. He earned a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) with a thesis that analyzes Eritrean state surveillance in relation to indefinite military conscription and conscripts' strategies to cope with insecurity and fears generated by state measures. This work, to be published as L'état de siege: Mobilisation, résistance et collaboration en Érythrée (Institut d'ethnologie and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), delineates social processes that are both challenging and complicit with state authoritarianism. His current research investigates the functioning of Eritrean transnational state institutions and the social and cultural dynamics of Eritrean exiles' resistance movements against the current regime in power. This project will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of exiles' political social movements and their impact on transnational authoritarianism. He is also coeditor-in-chief of Tsantsa, the Journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society. He may be contacted by e-mail at david.bozzini@unine.ch. [End Page 119]
Amanda Poole is an assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Washington in 2009. Her publications include journal articles and a book chapter on state-society relations, refugee resettlement, and agrarian development in Eritrea. She may be contacted by e-mail at pooleab@yahoo.com.
Jennifer Riggan is an assistant professor of international studies in the Department of Historical and Political Studies at Arcadia University. Her ethnographic research addresses nationalism, citizenship, state formation, militarism, development, education in Africa, and other issues. She has published on the changing relationship between citizenship and nationalism and on the decoupling of the nation and the state. She is currently working on a book on teachers, nationalism, and militarization in Eritrea, in a project entitled The Teacher State: Militarization and the Reeducation of the Nation in Eritrea, which explores the role of teachers in statemaking in Eritrea. She may be contacted by e-mail at: rigganj@arcadia.edu.
Tekle M. Woldemikael is professor of sociology at Chapman University. He holds a BA from Addis Ababa University and an MA and a PhD from Northwestern University. He is coeditor of a forthcoming book, Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Press). He is the author of Becoming Black American: Haitians and American Institutions in Evanston, Illinois (New York: AMS Press, 1989) and coeditor of Racial Diversity in Becoming a Sociologist, a special issue of The American Sociologist. His current book project is The Cultural Politics of Eritrean National Identity. He may be contacted by e-mail at: woldemik@chapman.edu. [End Page 120]
