Notes on Contributors
Thomas Biolsi teaches Anthropology at Portland State University in Oregon. He has been conducting fieldwork on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota for 20 years, and his research interests center on the history of United States Indian policy and the politics of Indian-White relations. His most recent book is ''Deadliest Enemies'': Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation.
Elizabeth Colson is retired from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. She has also been attached as faculty or research associate to Manchester, Boston, and Brandeis Universities, the University of Zambia, and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. Much of her research over the past 50 years, especially that in Zambia where she is involved in a longitudinal study of a resettled population, has focused on the consequences of displacement.
Malathi de Alwis is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, and Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York. She is the co-author, with Kumari Jayawardena, of Casting Pearls: The Women's Franchise Movement in Sri Lanka, the editor of Cat's Eye: A Feminist Gaze on Current Issues, and the co-editor (with Kumari Jayawardena) of Embodied Violence: Communalizing Women's Sexuality in South Asia.
Micaela di Leonardo is the Board of Lady Managers, Chicago Columbian Exposition Chair and Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. She writes both about race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, and political economy in the United States and the intertwined American histories of scholarly work and popular culture. Her most recent book is Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity.
Marc Edelman teaches anthropology at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has done research on agrarian history, rural development, social movements, and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century roots of national ism and contemporary politics in Latin America. In recent years he has been involved in research on transnational peasant and small farmer networks in Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Canada. His books include The Logic of the Latifundio and Peasants Against Globalization.
Arturo Escobar was born and grew up in Colombia. He teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main interests are political ecology and the anthropology of development, social movements, and new technologies. He is the author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, and co-editor (with Sonia Alvarez and Evelina Dagnino) of Cultures of Politics/ Politics of Culture: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements. He is currently completing a book based on ten years of research in the Colombian Pacific.
James Ferguson is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He has done research in Lesotho and Zambia, and has written about questions of power and the state; ''development''; rural/urban relations and the question of modernity; and the theory and politics of ethnography. His most recent book is Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Cop-perbelt.
Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He has done research in Southeast Asia, Oceania and Europe, and written widely on general issues concerning structuralist and Marxist theory, models of social and cultural transformation, global process, cultural formations, and the practices of identity. He is a co-editor of Social Analysis, Anthropological Theory, Ethnos, and Theory, and the author of Worlds on the Move: System, Structure and Contradiction in the Evolution of "Asiatic" Social Formations and (with Kajsa Ekholm-Friedman) Essays in Global Anthropology
John Gledhill is Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research has focused on rural society, politics, and social movements in Latin America, most recently the ethnography and history of the Nahuatl-speaking communities of the coastal sierras of Michoacan state in Mexico. His most recent book is Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics.
Nina Glick Schiller is an anthropologist at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Examining the constructions of categories of identity, she has worked with Haitians, the homeless mentally ill, and people with AIDS. Her most recent research explores the simultaneity of homeland ties and immigrant incorporation in small cities in the United States and Germany. Her latest book, co-authored with Georges Fouron, a Haitian scholar, is Georges Woke up Laughing: Long Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home.
Robert Gordon professes anthropology at the University of Vermont, Burlington. He has research experience in Papua New Guinea, Lesotho, South Africa, and Namibia. Among his publications are The Bushman Myth and Law and Order in the
New Guinea Highlands (with Mervyn Meggitt). Current research interests range from Tarzan to the history of colonial anthropology to domestic violence.
Steven Gregory teaches anthropology and African American studies at Columbia University, New York. He is the author of Black Corona and Santería in New York: A Study in Cultural Resistance. His most recent research examines the impact of neoliberal economic reforms and global processes in the Dominican Republic.
Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University, California. He has done ethnographic research on agricultural communities and state bureaucracies in India, and has written extensively on space, place, and fieldwork. He is currently working on a project that looks at the implications of reincarnation for social theory, and another that is attempting to rethink theories of the state from the perspective of everyday practices and representations. He has edited Caste and Outcast, the autobiography of the first major Indo-American author, Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden. He has taught at several American, European, and Australian universities and is a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. His research has been especially in urban anthropology, media anthropology, and transnational cultural processes, and his most recent books in English are Cultural Complexity, Transnational Connections, and Foreign News. He was the anthropology editor for the 2001 edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Angelique Haugerud is on the anthropology faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has conducted field research in East Africa during the past two decades and is the author of The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. She is co-editor (with M. Priscilla Stone and Peter D. Little) of Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives.
Deborah Heath is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College, in Portland, Oregon. An early advocate of multi-site anthropology of science, her research on genetic knowledge production, including a stint as a full-time DNA sequencing technician, has tracked the translocal links between the lab and its wider worlds. She initiated the collaborative project ''Mapping Genetic Knowledge,'' and is launching a new project on Beauty Science. Recent publications include the co-edited collection Genetic Nature/Culture.
Caroline Humphrey is Professor of Asian Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She has worked since 1966 in Asian parts of Russia, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia (China), India, and Nepal. Among her publications are Karl Marx Collective: Economy, Society and Religion in a Siberian Collective Farm; Marx Went Away but Karl Stayed Behind, and The Unmaking of Soviet Life.
Catherine Lutz teaches anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth
Century, Reading National Geographic (with Jane Collins), and Unnatural Emotions. She has also conducted studies on militarization and on domestic violence for activist organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee.
June Nash has done fieldwork in Chiapas, Mexico, Pathengyi, Burma, the tin-mining communities of Bolivia, and a de-industrializing city in Massachusetts. She returned to her first field site in Chiapas in 1989, where she has worked for the past decade analyzing the rise of the Zapatista rebellion and its impact on highland Mayan Communities as well as the Lacandon rainforest where it began. She recently published Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Era of Globalization.
David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. He is President-Elect American Ethonological Society and North American Editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes (1997), and the editor of Locating Capitalism in Time and Space (2002).
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has conducted field research in Southeast Asia, south China, and California. Her books include the award-winning Flexible Citizenship and Ungrounded Empires. New works are Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America and, with co-editor Stephen J. Collier, Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems.
Rayna Rapp teaches anthropology at New York University. Her scholarship has its roots in her early work as a founder of US women's studies and as a reproductive rights activist. Numerous publications include Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Her two current collaborative projects focus on how new genetic knowledge is made and how it impacts different constituencies; and on the social epidemic of learning disabilities in the USA.
Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She is currently completing a forthcoming book, Denationalization: Territory, Authority, and Rights in a Global, Digital Age based on her five-year project on governance and accountability in a global economy. Her most recent works are Guests and Aliens and her edited book Global Networks/Linked Cities.
Jane C. Schneider teaches anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the co-editor (with Annette B. Weiner) of Cloth and Human Experience, and the author of several essays on cloth and clothing. Her anthropological field research has been in Sicily and has led to three books, co-authored with Peter Schneider: Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily; Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily; and Reversible Destiny: Mafia,
Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. She is the editor of Italy's Southern Question; Orientalism in One Country.
Peter T. Schneider teaches sociology at Fordham University College at Lincoln Center, New York. He is co-author, with Jane Schneider, of Culture and Political Economy in Western Sicily, Festival of the Poor: Fertility Decline and the Ideology of Class in Sicily, and Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo. He is pursuing his interests in organized crime and criminalization through a new section on these issues at the New York Academy of Sciences.
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf went to Zaire (now Congo) in 1974-8 to teach economic and medical anthropology. Since that time she has led research and training teams in ten African countries. In 1985-90 she and colleagues conducted multi-disciplinary AIDS prevention research in Kinshasa and other cities of Congo. Their work has appeared in books and journals from 1988. Schoepf's forthcoming book is Women, Sex, and Power: A Multi-Sited Ethnography of AIDS. She is a senior fellow at the Institute for Health and Social Justice, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
K. Sivaramakrishnan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, and Director, South Asia Center, at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India, and the co-editor (with Arun Agrawal) of Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India, and Regional Modernities: The Cultural Politics of Development in India.
Gavin Smith has worked in Latin America and Europe. His book, Livelihood and Resistance, was an ethnographic study in Peru of the relationship between people's forms of livelihood and their political expression. His Confronting the Present reports on his European research, and also explores issues related to political engagement and scholarship. He has also edited, with Gerald Sider, a book on the selectivity of history - Silences and Commemorations.
Ann Laura Stoler is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has worked for some 30 years on race and the politics of colonial cultures in Southeast Asia and on the historical and contemporary face of race in France. Her most recent books include Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, and Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in Colonial Studies and U.S. Empire.
Karen-Sue Taussig is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. She has conducted ethnographic research on genetics and social life in the Netherlands and the United States since 1993. She is currently completing a book about genetic practices and social life in the Netherlands.
Katherine Verdery teaches Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She has conducted both field and archival research in Romania and for the last decade has been working on property restitution, specifically of land, in Transylvania. The results of that work are forthcoming as The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania. Previous books include What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Her next project concerns the process of collectivizing land in Romania in the 1950s.
Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of numerous books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. These include Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued 1995) and Blackwell's The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. She has most recently completed Seeds of Revolution: The Cultural Politics of the Irish Famine (forthcoming).
Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and the Director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. His most recent books are The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa and Human Rights in Global Perspective (co-edited with Jon P. Mitchell). He is editor of the journal Anthropological Theory.
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