Contributors to volume 3 number 1 (Spring 2003)

Contributors to Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2003)

Gérard Chaliand has been a participant observer in armed conflicts all over the world. He is the author of countless books, including Armed Struggle in Africa: With the Guerrillas in Portuguese Guinea (1969), The Peasants of North Vietnam (1969), Revolution in the Third World: Myths and Prospects (1977), Report from Afghanistan (1982), The Armenians: From Genocide to Resistance (with Yves Ternon, 1983), Terrorism: From Popular Struggle to Media Spectacle (1987), Strategic Atlas: A Comparative Geopolitics of the World’s Powers (with Jean-Pierre Rageau, 1992), The Art of War in World History: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age (1994), The Kurdish Tragedy (1994), and The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas (with Jean-Pierre Rageau, 1995). His two most recent books are Mémoire de ma mémoire (2003) and America Is Back: Les nouveaux césars du pentagone (with Arnaud Blin, 2003).

Hasmik Gevorgyan is professor of sociology at Yerevan State University and president of the Social Work and Sociological Research Center trust.

Julie Hemment received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University and is currently assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include gender and postsocialism, ngos and global civil society, feminist anthropology, and Participatory Action Research Methodology. She is working on a book titled "Gendered Interventions: Women’s Activism and Action Research in Postsocialist Russia."

Armine Ishkanian is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Since 1993 she has been conducting research in Armenia. Her research interests include ngos, gender, development, and the cultural and social implications of the post-Soviet transition. She has written articles on the role of ngos in Armenia, the causes and consequences of Armenian women’s post-Soviet labor migration, and the impact of the transition on women in Armenia.

David Kazanjian is assistant professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997.

Gregory Lima is a retired journalist. A New Yorker, he went to Tehran in 1958 to start Kayhan International, which became, in its heyday, the leading English-language newspaper in the Middle East. He remained with Kayhan, first as editor, then as special correspondent and critic, through its demise in the revolution of 1978–79. He is the author of The Costumes of Armenian Women (Tehran, 1974) and other titles. He holds a master’s degree from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research.

Michele Rivkin-Fish is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Her research is focused on Russia, and brings together questions of democratization and women’s reproductive health. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1997.

Victoria Rowe is a literary historian. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

Susanna Vardanyan is a physician and president of the Women’s Rights Center, a nongovernmental organization in Armenia. She was awarded the Minnesota Advocates Annual Human Rights Award in 2002.