Cynthia Nelson is Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Author of Doria Shafik, 'Egyptian Feminist: A Woman Apart', Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1996. Fields of Academic Teaching and Research: Sociology of Knowledge, Women's Movements in the Middle East, Discourses on Gender, Globalization, Development and Medical Anthropology.
Shahnaz Rouse, Sociology Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Research interests and publications in agrarian transformation; social movements; the state, religion and identity; gender and nationalism; globalization; the politics of representation; and social/spatial constructions and transformations.