Instructors

Carolyn Cooper (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica) is an innovative theorist whose highly original work on Jamaican popular culture has stimulated lively debates in the fields of Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies, Languages and Literature. She is the author of a series of articles and book chapters, as well as of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (Duke University Press, 1995) and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).	Carolyn Cooper UWI, Mona
Philomena Essed (M.A. Social Anthropology; PhD Social Sciences - 1990, cum laude, University of Amsterdam) is Senior Researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Issues and Development Studies, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Amsterdam and part time Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine where she teaches for African-American Studies and Women?s Studies. She also serves as an advisor to NGOs, to governmental bodies and to international organizations on issues concerning gender, 'race', ethnicity, racism, social justice and leadership. Monographs include: Everyday Racism: Women in Two Cultures (Hunter House 1990) Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory(Sage, 1991) Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (University of Massachusetts Press, 1996) Recent books: Race Critical Theories: Text and Context (Blackwell, 2002 - co-edited) The Topicality of Diversity: Municipal Policies in Focus (Forum, 2002, in Dutch, co- authored).	Philomena Essed University of Amsterdam
	Forthcoming: Refugees and the Transformation of Societies (Berghahn: in press, co-edited). A Companion to Gender Studies (Blackwell: in press, co-edited) Teaching: Mostly problem oriented and inter/transdisciplinary, including the following themes: Women and gender in a global perspective; Race critical theories; Gender, ethnicity, migration, racism in Europe and the USA; Gender, leadership and social transformations in multiethnic societies; Human resources, managing diversity; Social Identities and Methodologies of Critical Research.
David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Formerly Director and Professor of the School of Justice Studies, a law and social science program, at Arizona State University, he is the author of Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993), Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997), and Ethical Theory and Social Issues (1990/1995). He edited Anatomy of Racism (1990) and Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (1995). He is the founding co-editor of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. He recently published The Racial State and co-edited Race Critical Theories and Rethinking Postcolonialism.	David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine
Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Environmental, Evolutionary and Systematic Biology from Wayne State University in 1988. In 1994 he was elected a Fellow of the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS.) He is currently University Core Director and Professor of Biological Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University. From 1994 to 2004 he was Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Arizona State University – West, holding a joint appointment in African American Studies at Arizona State University – Main in Tempe, AZ. He has been Secretary for the Division on Integrating and Comparative Issues in the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biologists, and is now a member of the external advisory board for the National Human Genome Center at Howard University, amongst other distinctions. His research concerns the evolutionary genetics of postponed aging and biological concepts of race in humans, with over forty papers and book chapters published, and appearances in six documentary films on these general topics. He has been a Principal Investigator on grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Arizona Disease Research Commission.	Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
	His books on the biology of race are entitled: The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium, Rutgers University Press, 2001 and The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America, Dutton Press, 2004. In April 2002, he received the ASU-West award for Scholarly Research and Creative Activity. He has been a leader in addressing the under representation of minorities in science, directing successful programs in California and Arizona (see for example: http://www.west.asu.edu/lsi.) Finally, he has been an active participant in the struggle to protect and improve the teaching of science, particularly evolutionary biology in Arizona public schools.
Michael Hanchard’s areas of interest are comparative politics and racial politics. He is the author of Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945–1988 (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 1998). A current project, “Afro-Modernity: Race, Transnationalism, and the African Diaspora,” is a comparative analysis of the transnational political movements involving black political actors in the United States, Ghana, and Jamaica from 1955 to 1970. A second effort is a Web interactive pilot project called “Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora” (http://diaspora.northwestern.edu).	Michael Hanchard, Northwestern University
Barnor Hesse is a senior lecturer in Sociology. His teaching and research interests include theories and politics of the African Diaspora, racialized governmentalities and racialized modernities, globalization and postcoloniality. He is co-author of "Beneath the Surface - Racial Harassment" (1992), editor of "Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions" (2000) and author of "Creolizing the political: a genealogy of the African Diaspora" (forthcoming). He is also a series editor of "De/colonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons" for Pluto Press.	Barnor Hesse, University of East London, U.K.
Professor F. Abiola Irele (Comparative Studies, African-American and African Studies; Ph.D. in French, University of Paris) specializes in Black African and Caribbean literature in English and French, with strong interests in contemporary thought in francophone Africa, within the context of black intellectual history. Publications include an annotated edition of Selected Poems of Léopold Sédar Senghor (1977), The African Experience in Literature and Ideology (1981; reprinted 1990), and an annotated edition of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1994; second edition 1999), as well as numerous articles and reviews and a recent volume of essays, The African Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2001). He is a contributing editor to the new Norton Anthology of World Literature and is currently editor of Research in African Literatures; he is also general editor of the series Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature.	Abiola Irele, Harvard University
E. Patrick Johnson ( Northwestern University) is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University . A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed nationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality and performance. His book Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity published by Duke University Press in 2003, has won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award, the Errol Hill Book Award, and was a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has co-authored (with Mae G. Henderson) Black Queer Studies in the United States: A Critical Anthology due out in the fall of 2005 with Duke University Press. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Sweet Tea: An Oral History of Black Gay Men of the South,” forthcoming with the University of North Carolina Press. His next projects will include a book of auto-ethnographic essays on race, class, and gender as well as an anthology of black gay and lesbian theater.	E. Patrick Johnson Northwestern University
May Joseph ( Pratt Institute, New York City) is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Pratt Institute, New York. Her fellowships and awards include a Ford Foundation Grant; a Rockefeller Fellowship at the Asian/American center, CUNY; a Pembroke Center Post-Doctoral fellowship at Brown University; a Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and a University of California, humanities research Institute Fellowship at Irvine. She is the author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) and the Coeditor (with Jennifer Natalya Fink) of Performing Hybridity (University of Minnesota Press, 1999). She has published in Embodied Utopias, Corpus Delecti, Talking Visions, Sportcult, Soul, The Ends of Performance, New Observations, Women and Performance, Praxis, Oxford Literary Review, Late Imperial Culture, African American Review, and Movement research and has been a guest editor for Women and Performance. She is on the Editorial Board of Cultural Studies.
Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his Ph.D in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New York, from 1988-1991, a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1991 to 1992, Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to 1996, Executive Director of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria) in Dakar, Senegal, from 1996 to 2000.  Achille was also a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001, and a visiting Professor at Yale University in 2003. He has written extensively in African history and politics, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (Paris, Karthala, 1996). His latest work On the Postcolony was published in Paris in 2000 in French and the English translation has been published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in 2001.	Achille Mbembe, Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.
	He has published a series of articles and book chapters. He is currently Research Professor at the Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Nalini Persram (BA [Music], University of Regina, Canada; BA [Political Science], University of Victoria, Canada; MA in International Relations, University of East Anglia, UK; PhD in International Politics, University of Wales Aberystwyth ) is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland . She is also on the Executive Committee of the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College, where she is also c o-theme leader with Professor Robert Holton of the Globalization and the Nation-State portfolio, within which she is project director for “The Postcolonial Presence in the EU.” She has held research grants and fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the British Academy. Publications include Sovereignty and Subjectivity, J. Edkins, N. Persram and V. Pin-Fat (eds) (Lynne Rienner, 1999); “Politicizing the Féminine , Globalizing the Feminist,” Alternatives 19(3), 1994; “Cultural Rupture, Political Theory and Colonial Difference”, Small Axe (forthcoming 2004); “Guerrillas, Games and Governmentality”, Small Axe #10, 2001; "wartimeviolence: pulping fictions of the subaltern", in V. Jabri and E. O'Gorman (eds.), Women, Culture and International Relations (Lynne Rienner, 1999); “The Attack on Iraq from a Postcolonial Perspective, ” European Political Science War Symposium, November 2003;	Nalini Persram, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
	“The Clash and 'Civilisation': Representation, Rhetoric and Popular Legitimacy", co-authored with F. Cavatorta and S. El-Malik, in L. Garon (ed.), Et puis vint le 11 septembre... Remise en question de l'hypothèse du choc des civilisations (Université Laval, 2003); and "In my father's house are many mansions: the nation and postcolonial desire", H. S. Mirza (ed.), Black British Feminism (Routledge, 1997). Teaching and supervisory interests include international political theory, nationalism, postcolonialism, feminist international relations, Caribbean studies, cultural studies and critical theory. Her current research involves various analyses of 9/11 and gendered terrorism. Current publication projects include Nationalist Thought and the Caribbean World (manuscript); Caribbean Visions of Peace and Resistance in the era of Global Terror , N. Persram, P. Noguera and H. Campbell (eds), Postcolonial Political Theory , N. Persram (ed.) and the paper “Stating Exception: Gendered Terrorism.”
Shalini Puri is an Associate Professor of English. She works in Postcolonial Studies and Cultural Studies with an emphasis on the Caribbean. She has published The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post/Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave, December 2003), and has edited an anthology entitled Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (Macmillan, 2003). Her work has also appeared in Cultural Critique, and the anthologies Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation (edited by Belinda Edmondson), and Matikor: The Politics of Identity for Indo-Caribbean Women (edited by Rosanne Kanhai). She is contributing editor of the new Caribbean journal Anthurium.	Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh
	Her research explores the relations amongst nationalism, feminism, and cultural hybridity. She is particularly interested in the cultural practices, conflicts, and solidarities which have arisen out of the overlapping diasporas set in motion by slavery and indentureship.
Lola Young is a Baroness, and as such, she is part of the Legislature in the House of Lords (the second Chamber of Parliament in the U.K.). She is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. Before becoming an academic, Professor Young worked in arts development, promoting black arts and culture, an interest she pursued until recently, when she was actively involveved with various groups including the Black Cultural Archives and the Institute of International Visual Arts. Public appointments and responsibilities include membership of the board of the Royal National Theatre, Chair of the Arts Council's Cultural Diversity Panel, and membership of the Board of Resource: the Council of Museums, Archives and Libraries. She has written and broadcasted widely on television and radio, on issues of ‘race', gender and representation, black British culture, and film.	Lola Young Professor Emeritus of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University
	Her book, Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in Cinema was published by Routledge in 1996. Professor Young was the 1999 Chair of the judging panel for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Until recently, she was Head of Culture at the Greater London Authority. She continues to work freelance as a Cultural Broker, bringing together, arts, museums and archives organizations and individuals and creating projects and events.
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