Reconstruction 9.1 (2009)
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Editors
Dr. Vibha Arora is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India. She obtained her doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford in 2004 and has an MA and M.Phil in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. Vibha has published more than twenty articles in international journals and edited volumes on Political Sociology, Social Research Methods, Environmental Sociology, Visual Culture, Sociology of Religion, and Globalization. She has co-edited special journal issues on ‘Eco-criticism’ for 'Reconstruction' (Vol. 7, No.1, April 2007) and ‘Development of Democratic Routes in the Himalayan Borderland’ for 'Sociological Bulletin' (Vol. 58 No. 1, Jan-April 2009). She has received numerous awards and prizes for her research such as the Commonwealth Scholarship (2000-2004), the Young Sociologist Award of the Indian Sociological Society (2005), Outstanding Young Faculty Award and Fellowship at IIT Delhi (2007), and the M.N. Srinivas Award of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the Indian Sociological Society (2008).
Justin Scott-Coe is a Ph.D. candidate at Claremont Graduate University, with an emphasis in early and 19th-century American literature and critical theory. He served as managing editor and technical editor for Reconstruction from 2006-2008.
Contributors
Jonathan Arries is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William and Mary. He is a former Pew Fellow-Carnegie Scholar, and at William and Mary has held charis as the Sharpe Professor for Civic Renewal and University Chair for Teaching Excellence. [article]
Rhonda R. Dass currently inhabits the liminal space between graduate student and professor. Straddling the line she is an Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato and Director of the newly founded American Indian Studies Program as well as being a PhD candidate in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department and American Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dass' dissertation, Native American Symbolism in Tattooing, will soon complete her transformative journey, secure her new academic position, and fill her kinfolks' hearts with pride. [article]
Alyssa Grossman is currently a third-year doctoral student at the University of Manchester's Department of Social Anthropology. She has just completed a year of fieldwork in Romania, researching and filming for her thesis on sites and practices of memory in post-socialist Bucharest. Grossman obtained an MA with Distinction from Manchester's Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in 2005, and received a BA in Anthropology from Brown University in 1996. [article]
Bennett Huffman received his BA from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands in Southern California. He has degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Liverpool, including his PhD in American Literature from the latter. Bennett has had work published in Organization and Environment, Ecotone, and LitEnyc.com, among other places. He has taught at various colleges and universities including Concordia University, Portland, John Moores University, and most recently Western Oregon State University. Bennett has been Film and Television Domain Editor for Reconstruction since its inception. He edited a recent issue of Reconstruction on Contemporary Film. Dr. Huffman is currently entomological head of the Portland Field Office of the Oregon Department of Agriculture coordinating efforts to detect and eradicate invasive insect species. [ review]
Rachel Hurst is a doctoral candidate at York University’s School of Women’s Studies in Toronto, Ontario. Her graduate research centres on questions of femininity and beauty: her master’s thesis explored queer femininities, and her doctoral dissertation queries the topography of femininity and skin in cosmetic surgery and our emotional history of embodiment using interviews, cultural artefacts and psychoanalytic theories. Her other research interests include decolonizing and feminist methodologies and the relationship between grief and pedagogy. Outside of the academy, I facilitate mutual support groups for young adults who have lost a parent or sibling and am passionate about sewing, mosaic art and printmaking. [article]
Lauren Jones is a doctoral candidate in Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the University of California, Los Angeles specializing in comparative and international education. She is currently a Program Officer of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA. Her experience includes teaching, training, and administration in NGOs and in the publicsphere domestically and in Latin America. [article]
Irmi Karl is Principal Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton, UK. Her work engages with questions of sexuality and gender identities in relation to the consumption of (new) information and communication technologies. Other research areas include mobile technologies and space as well as the sexual and class politics of popular media forms. In this context she is concerned with consumerism, audience agency and the role of technology in the processes of mediation and lived experiences. [article]
Selena Kimball is a visual artist living in New York City, where she is an adjunct professor of Art at Hunter College. She works in a variety of media, including film, painting, collage, and photography, and has exhibited throughout the US, Canada, Poland, and Romania. Her MFA thesis paintings were shown at Hunter College's Times Square Gallery in June 2007, and her collages can be seen in the novel, The Sleeping Life of Leonora de la Cruz (with Agnieszka Taborska, Midmarch Press, New York: 2007). She received a BFA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. [article]
Robert Moses Peaslee is Assistant Professor of Electronic Media and Communication in the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007, his M.A. in English Literature from The Citadel in 1997, and his B.A. in Communication from Colby-Sawyer College in 1995. [article]
Dr. Kate Rossmanith is a performance studies lecturer and researcher at Macquarie University, Australia. She also works as an essayist, her writing appearing in Best Australian Essays 2007.[article]
Rina Sherman is a South-African who has lived in France since 1984. A classical musician by training, she worked as independent theatre actress and as vision mixer for South African television (SABC) before turning to filmmaking. She was audiovisual director for South Africa: Music of Freedom in 1995, and was awarded the French prize Villa M?dicis Hors les Murs. In 1997 Rina Sherman was awarded a Lavoisier Research Bursary by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the project The Ovahimba Years, a multi-disciplinary long-term research programme (drawings, oral tradition, video, film, photography) aimed at creating a living trace of Ovahimba cultural heritage. In 2003, she extended her research into the south-west of Angola, and has hence covered the entire Otjiherero socio-linguistic cultural heritage landscape. She is currently writing and editing films about her seven years with the Ovahimba. Keep the Dance Alive, first feature documentary of The Ovahimba Years Collection has just been released (http://www.der.org/films/keep-the-dance-alive.html). Rina Sherman works independently and on special projects with various institutions.
Christina D. Weber is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University. Her areas of research include trauma and memory studies, cultural studies, and social theory. Utilizing qualitative methodologies that integrate media analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, her research emphasizes the impact of traumatic events on a variety of social and cultural forms. Her most recent publications include "Navigating Gender Boundaries Inside and Outside the Wire: A Qualitative Analysis of U.S. Women Veterans of Vietnam and Iraq," appearing in Minerva Journal of Women and War, and "Conceptualizing the Embodied Front: An Analysis of Born on the Fourth of July," appearing in Interculture: An Interdisciplinary Journal. [article]
Dr. Brian Winkenweder teaches art history and visual culture at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. He completed his PhD from Stony Brook University in 2004. He recently published Reading Wittgenstein: Robert Morris's Art-as-Philosophy. His essays have appeared in Art Criticism and Limina, and a forthcoming essay on Robert Morris's use of language games will be published in Word & Image. Recently, Dr. Winkenweder co-edited (with Dr. David Craven) a volume of essays entitled Donald Kuspit's Philosophical Art Criticism to be published by the University of Liverpool Press in 2010. Recently, Dr. Winkenweder was named the first Allen and Pat Kelley Faculty Scholar at Linfield College. [article]
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