Notes on Contributors

Diaspora 6:3 1997 Notes on Contributors Martin Baumann has been Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Hannover since 1992. He is the author of Deutsche Buddhisten: Geschichte und Gemeinschaften (Marburg: Diagonal, 1993) and of the forthcoming Der Begriff der Diaspora als analytische Kategorie [The notion of diaspora as an analytical category] (Marburg: Diagonal, 1999); of many articles in English, including "Conceptualizing Diaspora: The Preservation of Religious Identity in Foreign Parts, Exemplified by Hindu Communities Outside India," (Témenos 31, 1995, 19-35); and ofbookchapters, such as "Sustaining 'Little Indias': The Hindu Diasporas in Europe," in Gerrie ter Haar, ed., Strangers and Sojourners: Religious Communities in the Diaspora (Leuven, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Peeters, 1998). Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Purchase. She is the author of four books, including Jamaica Farewell: Jamaican Migrants in London (1979) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), and editor of another (New Immigrants in New York, 1987). Her recent work includes articles on West Indian identity in diaspora and the benefits and burdens of immigrant women's work. Fran Markowitz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University ofthe Negev in Beersheva, Israel. She is the co-editor, with Michael Askhenazi, of Sex, Sexuality and the Anthropologist (U of Illinois P, 1999); author of the forthcoming Coming ofAge in Post-Soviet Russia: Tales of Two Transitions (U of Illinois P, 2000) and ofA Community in Spite of Itself: Soviet Jewish Emigres in New York (Smithsonian Institution P, 1993). Her earlier work was focused on the Russian-Jewish diaspora in Israel and the USA. She has also conducted ethnographic research among teenagers in Russia to explore the effects of post-Soviet socio-political change on the maturation process. She is currently shifting her research focus to the African Hebrew Israelite Community. Diaspora 6:3 1997 Jon Stratton is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies at the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of four books, including Writing Sites: A Genealogy of the Postmodern World (Harvester/U. Michigan Press, 1990), and the coeditor of another. He has written many book chapters, including "On The Impossibility of a Global Cultural Studies: 'British' Cultural Studies in an 'International' Frame" (with Ien Ang), in K. Chen and D. Morley, eds., Critical Dialogues: Cultural Studies, Marxism and Postmodernism in the Writings of Stuart Hall (Routledge, 1996); he is also the author of such articles as "Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture," in David Porter, ed., Internet Culture (Routledge, 1996). Steven Vertovec is Research Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the ESRC Research Programme in Transnational Communities. He is the editor or co-editor of seven volumes, including Aspects of the South Asian Diaspora (Oxford UP-New Delhi) and the author of Hindu Trinidad: Religion , Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Change (Macmillan, 1992), and Divergent Diaspora: Hindus and Hinduism outside India (University College of London Press, forthcoming). ...