Contributors
- Contributors
Barbara Harlow teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Resistance Literature (Routledge, 1986), Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention (Wesleyan, 1992), After Lives: Legacies of Revolutionary Writing (Verso, 1996), and co-editor with Mia Carter of Archives of Empire (Duke, 2003). She has taught in Egypt (Cairo), Ireland (Galway), and South Africa (Pietermaritzburg and Durban). In addition to an intellectual biography of the South African activist Ruth First, she is working on a project examining historical connections of international humanitarian and human rights law with Third World literature.
Joseph Morgan Hodge is an associate professor of history and chair of the department of history at West Virginia University in Morgantown. He is author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Ohio, 2007). He is also co-editor along with Brett Bennett of Science and Empire: Knowledge and Networks of Science across the British Empire, 1800–1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), and co-editor with Gerald Hödl and Martina Kopf of Developing Africa: Concepts and Practices in Twentieth-Century Colonialism (Manchester, 2014). In addition, he has published several articles in leading historical journals including the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Journal of Southern African Studies, Agricultural History, and the Journal of Modern European History. He is currently working on a new project tentatively entitled “After Empire: Late Colonial Experts, Postcolonial Careering and the Making of International Development,” which explores the subsequent careers of former British colonial officials and technical experts who went on to work for various international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank or for British donor agencies and consultancy firms.
Stephen Humphreys is associate professor of international law at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Theatre of the Rule of Law (Cambridge, 2010), a critique of rule of law promotion by international development institutions. In it he suggests the field is best understood as staging a morality tale, intended for edification and emulation but blind to its own internal contradictions. He also edited the volume Human Rights and Climate Change (Cambridge, 2009), launching scholarly debate on this topic, and is currently authoring a monograph on privacy in the context of data saturation. He is an editor of the London Review of International Law.
Samuel Martínez is a cultural anthropologist who teaches anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of two ethno-graphic monographs and several peer-reviewed articles on the migration and labor and minority rights of Haitian nationals and people of Haitian ancestry in the Dominican Republic. He is also editor of International Migration and Human Rights (California, 2009). In his current research and writing, he brings critical scrutiny to northern [End Page 479] human rights solidarity with Haitian-ancestry people in the Dominican Republic between 1978 and the present.
Mira L. Siegelberg is the Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and History. Her first book on the international and intellectual history of the concept of statelessness since the nineteenth century, which will be published by Harvard University Press, examines the origins of this international legal category and its impact on international law, sovereignty, and global order to the present day. [End Page 480]
