Contributors
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Lauren Benton is professor of history and law and dean of humanities at New York University. Her research focuses on the comparative legal history of empires. Her recent books are Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 (Cambridge, 2002), which was awarded the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize and the World History Association Book Prize, and A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900 (Cambridge, 2010).
Jean L. Cohen is the Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She specializes in contemporary political and legal theory, continental political thought, and international political theory. She is the author of numerous books and articles including (with Andrew Arato) Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, Mass., 1992); Regulating Intimacy: A New Legal Paradigm (Princeton, 2002); and Rethinking Legitimacy and Legality in the Epoch of Globalization (Cambridge, forthcoming).
Isaie Dougnon is a maître-assistant in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Bamako, Mali. From 1998 to 2003, Dougnon worked on labor migration from Dogon country to the Office du Niger (Mali) and to Ghana, about which he published his first book Travail de Blanc, travail de Noir: La migration des paysans dogons vers l’Office du Niger et au Ghana (1910–1980) (Paris: Khartala, 2007). More recently, he coedited, with Christophe Daum, Hommes et Migrations no. 1279 (May–June 2009), a special issue entitled “L’Afrique en mouvement: un autre regard.” His current research focuses on modern work and connected topics in Malian society.
Dan Edelstein is associate professor of French at Stanford University. His first book, The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Chicago, 2009), examines how liberal natural right theories, classical republicanism, and the myth of the golden age became fused in eighteenth-century political culture, only to emerge as a violent ideology during the Terror. This book won the 2009 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize. He recently finished a short book titled The Enlightenment: A Genealogy (Chicago, 2010), which explores how the idea of an Enlightenment emerged in French academic circles around the 1720s.
Nick Heavican’s love for photography started when he first discovered the work of Helmut Newton and Peter Beard, which led him to New York, where he taught himself the skills of image making. Heavican’s photos have been published in V, ID, and The Block magazines as well as brand clients such as Yves Saint Laurent, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, and Ralph Lauren. [End Page 159]
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. His recent books are The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations (New York, 2009); The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation (New York, 2007), which was awarded the Modern Language Association’s 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies; and Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (New York, 2005). He has also edited the Norton Critical Edition of The Arabian Nights (New York, 2010).
Fabian Klose is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität in Munich, Germany. Author of Menschenrechte im Schatten kolonialer Gewalt: Die Dekolonisierungskriege in Kenia und Algerien, 1945–1962 (Munich, 2009), from which his essay in this issue is drawn, he is now at work on a new project titled “In the Cause of Humanity: Humanitarian Intervention, the International Public Sphere, and the Internationalization of Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century.”
Roland Marchal is senior research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), based at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI/Sciences-Po), Paris. He was chief editor of the French academic quarterly Politique africaine from 2002 to 2006. He has an extensive research record on the conflicts and politics in Africa, with a focus on the Horn of Africa.
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a German jurist.
Brigitte Sion is assistant professor/faculty fellow in the religious studies program and the department of journalism at New York University. She earned her Ph.D. in performance studies from the same institution in...
