Faubion James - The Ethics of Kinship

Carolyn Babula is a doctoral candidate at Rice University in the Department of Anthropology. She is currently conducting her field research in New York City on vintage clothing, public and private collections of clothing, and seasonal collections of clothing, as tangible invocations of the past at the end of the millennium.

Jamila Bargach teaches anthropology and social science at the National School of Architecture in Rabat, Morocco. She is the author of Nothing above Family (2001).

John Borneman , professor of anthropology at Princeton University, received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Harvard University, and he has done fieldwork in Germany, Central Europe, and Lebanon. His current research focuses on the symbolic forms of political identification and authority, and on issues of accountability, justice, and violence. From 1991 to 2001 he taught at Cornell University, and he has been guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Stockholm University (Sweden), Bergen University (Norway), and Senior Fulbright Professor at Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin (Germany). He has written widely on issues of kinship, sexuality, nationality, justice, and political form. His publications include Belonging in the Two Berlins: Kin, State, Nation (1992) , Settling Accounts: Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist States (1997), and Subversions of International Order: Studies in the Political Anthropology of Culture (1998).

Stanford W. Carpenter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. He is currently working on a dissertation examining the personal experiences and the source materials of comic creators that affect the representation of race, gender, and ethnicity in comic books. Carpenter is a researcher at the Friends Research Institute and an associate at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Nityanand Deckha received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rice University in 2000. His current writing focuses on contemporary urban life and space, including Repackaging London: Spatial Politics in the Global City, based on his doctoral dissertation. Most recently, he has worked as a professional anthropologist in advertising in New York.

James D. Faubion is associate professor of anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of Modern Greek Lessons: A Primer in Historical Constructivism (1993) and of the forthcoming Shadows and Lights of Waco: Millennialism Today. His edited volumes include Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought (1995) , Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 2: Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (1998) , and Essential Works of Michel Foucault, Volume 3: Power (2000) .

Laurel George is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Rice University. Her research addresses the patterning of the funding of contemporary U.S. choreography, a topic on which she published in the volume Corporate Futures (1998) and in the journal Terrain (1999).

Lamia Karim is a graduate student in anthropology at Rice University. Her research interests include women in South Asia, immigration, anthropology of NGOs and development, and the study of alternative political processes in a globalized world order.

Susan Ossman is the author of Picturing Casablanca, Portraits of Power in a Modern City (1994) and Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo (2001), and editor of Miroirs Maghrbins, Itinraires de soi et paysages de rencontre (1998). She teaches at the American University of Paris.

Kristin Peterson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University. She is currently conducting dissertation research on global trade, biotechnology, and access to essential medicines in Africa.

Deepa S. Reddy graduated from the Department of Anthropology at Rice University with a thesis on Hindu ethnicism and womens activism in India. She teaches anthropology at the University of Houston, Clear Lake.

Denise Youngblood is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Rice University. A native of Trinidad, Youngblood is a former consultant on culture and multiculturalism to the government of Canada, and to several NGOs on international policy analysis and global education. She also functioned as an intercultural specialist for corporations such as Prudential International. In recent years, she moved from the position of managing editor for a strategic intelligence Internet publishing company, CountryWatch.com , to become vice president of research and development.