Contributors
- Contributors
Engin Deniz Akarlı is the Joukowsky Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History and professor of history at Brown University. His publications include The Long Peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 (1993), Belgelerle Tanzimat (1977), and Political Participation in Turkey (1974). He serves on the board of editors of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the board of advisors of Islamic Law and Society, and the Center for Turkish Studies of the Foundation for Science and Arts (Istanbul).
Cemil Aydin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. With expertise in Ottoman and Japanese history, he has researched and written about the comparative intellectual histories of the modern Middle East and East Asia. His book Politics of Anti-Westernism: Vision of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2007. He is currently working on a project examining the relationship between Cold War—era modernization theory, decolonization, and civilizational thinking.
Sikata Banerjee is associate professor of women's studies at the University of Victoria. She received her PhD in political science from the University of Washington. She works primarily in the area of gender and nationalism, with a particular focus on Hindu nationalism in India. She is the author of Warriors in Politics: Hinduism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India (2000), "Make Me a Man!" Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India (2005), and articles in Asian Survey, Women's Studies International Forum, Women and Politics, and International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Subho Basu completed his PhD at Cambridge University and has worked at several institutions, including Cambridge University, London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, and Illinois State University. Currently he is an assistant professor of history at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. His recent works include Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal, 1890-1937 (Oxford University Press, 2004); Rethinking Indian Political Institutions, edited with Crispin Bates (Anthem, 2005); and Paradise Lost? State Failure in Nepal, with Ali Riaz (forthcoming from Lexington Press).
Mehrzad Boroujerdi is associate professor of political science and director of the Middle Eastern studies program at Syracuse University. He is the author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press, 1996) as well as numerous other articles published in English- and Persian-language journals.
Michael Burtscher is a lecturer in the history of political thought at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, and a PhD candidate in history and East Asian languages at Harvard University.
Andrew Davison is an associate professor of political science at Vassar College. He is the author of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration (Yale University Press, 1998); The Philosophic Roots of Modern Ideology: Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Islamism, 3rd ed., with David E. Ingersoll and Richard K. Matthews (Prentice Hall, 2001); Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey: Progress or Order? with Taha Parla (Syracuse University Press, 2004); and Conquering Hearts and Minds: The American War Ideology in the Persian/Arabian Gulf, 1990-2003 (Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2005).
Kevin M. Doak holds the Nippon Foundation Endowed Chair in Japanese Cultural Studies at Georgetown University, where he is also chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has written or edited three books and over thirty articles in both English and Japanese on issues related to nationalism and ethnicity in modern Japan. His Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity (University of California Press, 1994) has been translated into Japanese and published as The Japan Romantic School and Nationalism (Kashiwa Shobo, 2002). He is currently finishing A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (forthcoming from Brill). [End Page 531]
Juliane Hammer is assistant professor of Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She has written extensively on the Palestinian diaspora and Palestinian national, cultural, and political identities, most recently in her book Palestinians Born in Exile: Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland (University of Texas Press, 2005). She is currently working on a book examining the intellectual production and public representation of American Muslims.
Syed Akbar Hyder is assistant professor of Asian studies...
