Joseph K. Adjaye is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His

areas of specialization include African history and culture, as well as Caribbean history

(slavery, African retentions, maroon history). Adjaye’s publications include three books:

reviews in History in Africa, The International Journal of African Historical Studies,

Journal of Ethnic Studies, American Historical Review, Journal of Black Studies, and

African Historical Review. He can be reached at jadjaye+@pitt.edu.

Y.M. Alex-Assensoh is Adjunct Professor in the Department of African American &

African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington). Her areas of specialization

include American politics: popular participation, urban politics, and minority politics.

A.B. Assensoh is Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at Indiana

University (Bloomington). His research interests include Third World history, European

expansionism (colonialism and cxpmparative slavery), African/Black diaspora history,

and Third World Militarism. Assensoh’s publications include (with Yvette Alex-Assensoh)

and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and America’s Quest for Racial Integration (1986).

He can be reached at aassenso@indiana.edu.

Thomas C. Buchanan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at

forthcoming) and has published in such journals as Journal of Urban History and

Journal of Social History. He can be reached at thomasbuchanan@mail.unomaha.edu.

David Carey, Jr. is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University

Ojer taq tzijob’ al kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People)

Rory J. Conces is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, a member of the International

Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and has been the Editor of

International Third World Studies Journal and Review since 1994. He is the author of

Review Journal of Philosophy and Social Science, Acta Analytica, Dijalog,

Sociajdemokrat, and International Third World Studies Journal and Review. Currently,

his research focuses on ethnic nationalism, selfhood, personal identity, and conflict

management; the ethics of intervention; and extreme deontics. He has lectured on

applied philosophy at South China Normal University, Zhoushan University, and

Hangzhou Teachers College in China. Conces completed a Fulbright teaching and

research award at the University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as

presented additional lectures on applied philosophy at universities in Bosnia and

Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, during the Spring term of 2001. He returned to the

Balkans during the Summer term of 2003 to lecture on country building and ethnic

nationalism, philosophy, and other topics. Conces traveled to Northern Ireland in the

Summer of 2004 to conduct a seminar on ethnic nationalism that was sponsored by

JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A & M

University- Commerce. She is also the Director of the University Honors Program. She

teaches courses in international relations and comparative politics with an emphasis

on both Central America and the Middle East. Her research interests include internal

displacement and refugee studies and she is currently compiling data for a comparative

study of internal displacement between central America and the Middle East. She can

be reached at JoAnn_Lutz@tamu-commerce.edu.

Peter Emerson is the Director of The de Borda Institute, a Northern Ireland-based

organization that promotes inclusive voting. His publications include Defining

Democracy, Decisions, Elections and Good Governance (2002); From Belfast to the

Moshe Gershovich is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of

Nebraska at Omaha. He published French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and

Its Consequences (Cass, 2000). His current research concerns the oral history of

Moroccan veterans who served in the French army during World War II. He can be

Aaron Hale is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science, University

David T. Jervis is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Leo University

areas of teaching and research include social stratification and inequality: class, race,

and gender; comparative sociology and development (Central Asia and the Middle

East); and social psychology. He can be reached at kamali@mwsc.edu.

Paschal B. Kyiiripuo Kyoore is an Associate Professor of French at Gustavus Adolphus

College. He specializes in 19th and 20th centuries French literature, and francophone

African and Caribbean literatures. His research focuses mainly on Africa and the

Caribbean. He is the author of The African and Caribbean Historical Novel in French:

A Quest of Identity (Peter Lang, 1996). He is currently doing research on oral tradition

among the Dagara people of Ghana and Burkina Faso. He can be reached at

paschal@gustavus.edu.

Newton Quarterly, Bulletin of the Council for the Study of Religion, and North Dakota

History. His current research is in the area of Native American studies. He can be

reached at dstover@mail.unomaha.edu.

Richard R. Super is Associate Professor of History at Creighton University. Since earning

his doctorate at Arizona State University in 1975, Super has pursued teaching and

research in twentieth-century Chile, the comparative Americas, and the Dominican

Republic during the Trujillo regime. He has also served in a number of administrative

capacities at Creighton, most recently as Director of the Montesinos Center for the

Study of the Dominican Republic. He can be reached at super@creighton.edu.