Notes on Contributors

D I O R A JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES Diaspora 7:3 1998 Notes on Contributors Héctor Cordero-Guzmán is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School ofManagement and Urban Policy and an affiliated faculty member in the Graduate Department of Sociology at the New School University in New York. At the New School he is also a research associate at the Community Development Research Center, the International Center for Immigration, Ethnicity and Citizenship, and the Center for Health Policy Research. He has written and co-authored articles on economic development and labor markets, social stratification and poverty, child and youth development, racial and ethnic relations, and international migration and has recently co-edited, with Ramón Grosfoguel and Robert Smith, a volume on international migration and socioeconomic change in New York City. Dr. Cordero-Guzmán has been a consultant to numerous government, research, and community-based organizations and is on the board of El Barrio Popular Education Program. Ramón Grosfoguel is Assistant Professor ofSociology at Boston College and Research Associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. He is the co-editor (with Héctor Cordero-Guzmán and Robert Smith) of a forthcoming anthology entitled Transnational Communities and the Political Economy ofNew York City in the 1990s and, with Francis Negrón, of another anthology, Puerto Rican Jam! Rethinking Nationalism and Colonialism (U of Minnesota P, 1997). He has published over twenty-five articles, including "Developmentalism , Modernity and Dependency Theory in Latin America," forthcoming in the new journal NEPANTLA: Views from the South; "Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Comparative Approach," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (1999); and "La Geopolítica y migración Caribeña: de la Guerra Fría a la pos-Guerra Fría," Op. Cit., the journal of the Center for Historical Research of the University of Puerto Rico (1998). Susan Koshy is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of many essays, including the forthcoming "Morphing Race into Diaspora 7:3 1998 Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness" (in Critical Inquiry); "From Cold War to Trade War: Neocolonialism and Human Rights," Social Text 58 (Spring 1999); "The Fiction of Asian American Literature," The Yale Journal of Criticism (Fall 1996); and "The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender and Diaspora in Mukherjee's Fiction," Diaspora 3 (Spring 1994). She is at work on a book tentatively titled Critical Transformations: Asian Americans and the Politics of Representation . David Chioni Moore is Assistant Professor of International Studies and English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the co-editor, with Martin Bernai, of the forthcoming volume Debating Black Athena (Duke UP) and the editor of a new critical edition of Langston Hughes's A Negro Looks at Soviet Central Asia, originally published in 1934 in Moscow and Leningrad by the Cooperative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the USSR and not reprinted since. He is also the author of nearly twenty-five articles and book reviews, including "Local Color, Global 'Color': Langston Hughes, the Black Atlantic, and Soviet Central Asia, 1932," Research inAfrican Literatures (Winter 1996); "Anthropology is Dead, Long Live Anthro(a)pology," Journal of Anthropological Research (Winter 1994); and "Routes: Alex Haley's Roots and the Rhetoric of Genealogy," Transition (Fall 1994). Peter Murphy did his dissertation work in Philosophy and Politics and is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Ballarat/Melbourne, Australia; he has also served as a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and Baylor University. He is the co-editor, with Michael Crozier, of The Left in Search of a Center (U of Illinois P, 1996), and of more than thirty articles and book reviews, including "The Roar of Whispers: Neohellenism and Cosmopolitanism," forthcoming in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, and "Rhysmos: Music and the Scales of Justice," forthcoming in Thesis Eleven; "Romantic Modernism and the Greek Polis," Thesis Eleven 34 (1993); and "Socialism and Democracy," Thesis Eleven 26 (1990). He is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Scales of...