Iris Berger is Professor of History, Africana studies, and women's studies
at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is also
past director of the Institute for Research on women and recently
completed a term as president of the African Studies Association. She is
author of Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry,
1900-1980 and Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the
Precolonial Period, and co-editor of Women and Class in Africa.
E. Frances White is Professor and Dean of the Gallatin School of
Individualized Study at New York University. She writes on African women's
history and feminist theory. Her publications include Sierra Leone's
Settler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier and Africa on
My Mind: Gender, Counter Discourse and African American Nationalism.
Benjamin N. Lawrance is an author and editor of eleven books, and editor in chief of the African Studies Review. He is professor of History at the University of Arizona.
Joanna T. Tague is assistant professor of African history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
Meredith Terretta is an associate professor of history at the University of Ottawa and the author of Petitioning for Our Rights, Fighting for Our Nation: The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949–1960.
Amy Shuman is a professor of folklore and narrative at the Ohio State University. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Communication by Urban Adolescents; Other People’s Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy; Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century (with Carol Bohmer); and Political Asylum Deceptions: The Culture of Suspicion (with Carol Bohmer).
