2005-2006 Seminar Leaders
Empire: Fiction & Theory
Deepika Bahri
Empires Past & Present
Clifton Crais
Mark Ravina
Globalization in Practicum
Sam Cherribi
Sam Cherribi is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Assistant to the Provost, and an Emory liaison to the Carter Center. He was a member of the Dutch Parliament from 1994-2002, a member of the Assembly of the Council of Europe, a member of the Assembly of the West European Union, and an official observer for the United Nations. His current research interests include: ethnicity and political engagement in Europe; media and contested issues in the public space; political elites; and European Islam. Cherribi’s publications include: “The Growing Islamization of Europe” in John L. Esposito & Francois Burgat (eds.), Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East (Rutgers University Press & Hurst, 2003) and “The Global Aspects of the Internet” in Donald H. Johnston (ed.), Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications (Academic Press, 2003). Cherribi received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam.
Bruce Knauft
Bruce M. Knauft is Executive Director of the Institute for Comparative and International Studies (ICIS) and Samuel C. Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory University (PhD UMichigan, 1983). His research focuses broadly on comparative and international studies, including the critical and comparative theorization of political change and subjectivity. His publications have addressed issues of modernity and marginality; political economy and violence; and gender and sexuality. His seven books include Critically Modern (edited, 2002); Exchanging the Past (2002); From Primitive to Post-colonial in Melanesia and Anthropology (1999); Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 1996); and, most recently, The Gebusi: Lives Transformed in a Rainforest World (2005, McGraw-Hill). Trained originally as an ethnographer of rainforest New Guinea, Professor Knauft has developed comparative interests and mentored student research across a wide range of world areas, topics, and disciplinary perspectives.