Crabtree Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University ADVISory BoArD Mario Azevedo Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Professor of History and Scholar-in-Residence
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Pam J Crabtree
Associate Professor of Anthropology
New York University
ADVISory BoArD
Mario Azevedo
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Professor of History and Scholar-in-Residence
Jackson State University
r hunt Davis
Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies
University of Florida
Laura Lee Junker
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of
Graduate Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago
Eloise Quiñones Keber
Professor of Art History
Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City
University of New York
S M Ghazanfar
Professor of Economics Emeritus
University of Idaho
ContrIButorS
Charles W Abbott, Ph.D., is currently revising his
disserta-tion on Nigerian hometown associadisserta-tions and ethnic unions
toward a book His chapter “Nigerians in North America: New
frontiers, old associations?” appears in the edited volume The
New African Diaspora in North America (Lexington Books).
olutayo Charles Adesina, Ph.D., teaches at the Department
of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria He is the author of
“The Underground Foreign Exchange Market in Ibadan
dur-ing Devaluation,” in Money Struggles and City Life:
Devalua-tion in Ibadan and Other Urban Centres in Southern Nigeria,
1986–96 (2002), and “Teaching History in Twentieth Century
Nigeria: The Challenges of Change,” in History in Africa: A
Journal of Method, vol 33 (2006).
Massoud Abdel Alim is a writer, editor, and trainer for Fortune
1000 companies He has an M.S and M.B.A and has written for many business and medical publications He has lived in the Arab world and is especially interested in Islamic history
Mark W Allen, Ph.D., is associate professor of anthropology
in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Cali-fornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona His most recent
publications include coediting The Archaeology of Warfare:
Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest (University Press of
Florida, 2006) and “Hillforts and the Cycling of Maori Chief-doms: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?” in R
Rey-craft and J Railey (eds.), Global Perspectives on the Collapse of
Complex Society (University of New Mexico Press, 2007)
Miguel Arisa is finishing his doctoral studies in art history at
the Graduate Center, City University of New York He teaches
at Technical Career Institutes and is a regular lecturer at the Cloisters and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
rose Aslan is a graduate student in Arab and Islamic
civili-zations at the American University in Cairo, Egypt Her re-search interests include Sufi hermeneutics, Qur’anic exegesis, and Islamic theology
Peri Bearman is associate director of the Islamic Legal
Stud-ies Program at Harvard Law School She founded the journal