Franco Barchiesi is an Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, a Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and an International Visiting Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book, Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa (2011), was awarded the 2012 C.L.R. James Prize by the Working Class Studies Association.
Stefano Bellucci is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, where he collaborates in the global labor history research program. He also teaches African History and African Economics at Leiden University, The Hague Campus.
Alan Cobley is Professor of South African and Comparative History at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. He is the author of numerous publications on aspects of South African and Caribbean history. His most recent publications include: “African Barbadians and Barbadians in Africa” in Kwesi Kwaa Prah's edited collection Back to Africa: (Volume II) The Ideology and Practice of the African Returnee Phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa (Book Series No.92, Centre for Advanced Studies in African Societies, Cape Town, 2012); Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies 1807-2007, co-edited with Victor Sampson (The University of the West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, 2013); and Beyond Boundaries: Race and Ethnicity in Global Sport, co-edited with John Nauright and David Wiggins (Arkansas University Press, Fayetteville, forthcoming - November 2014).
Catherine Higgs is a Professor of History and Vice Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has written about politics and religion in South Africa, and about labor and colonialism in Portuguese Africa. Her most recent book is Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Athens, OH, 2012).
Bridget Kenny is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has published extensively on precarious labor and retail workers in South Africa. She is currently working with her collaborators, Carolina Bank Muñoz and Antonio Stretcher, on an edited volume entitled Wal-Mart in the Global South.
Catherine Koonar is pursuing her doctorate in history at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on children and childhood in the global South. She is particularly interested in transnational histories of children and childhood.
Elias Mandala received his PhD from the University of Minnesota and teaches African history at the University of Rochester, New York. He is the author of Work and Control in a Peasant Economy: A History of the Lower Tchiri Valley in Malawi, 1859–1960 (1990) and The End of Chidyerano: A History of Food and Everyday Life in Malawi, 1860–2004 (2005). He is now working on a political and environmental history of the Magololo Chiefs of southern Malawi and former servants of Dr. David Livingstone.
Stephen J. Rockel has taught African History at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and the University of Toronto, Canada. He has particular interests in labor history, slavery, and conflict. His has published Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (2006), for which he was awarded the Joel Gregory Prize by the Canadian Association of African Studies, and with Rick Halpern, Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War and Empire (2009). His current projects include histories of Tabora—a nineteenth century East African commercial city; slavery and urbanization in Tanzania; and a study of the autobiography of Adrian Atiman, a freed slave and the first African medical doctor in Tanzania.
Marie Rodet is Lecturer in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her principal research interests lie in the field of migration history, gender studies, and the history of slavery in West Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries. She has written a number of articles on post-slavery in Mali, including “Listening to the History of Those Who Don't Forget” published in History in Africa (2013) and is currently working on a monograph on slave resistance in Kayes, Mali.
Hanan Sabea is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. Her forthcoming monograph Present Pasts: Coloniality of Power and Laboring Subjects on Sisal Plantations in Tanzania incorporates her research on the dynamics of land and labor on plantations in colonial and postcolonial Africa, state-subject relations, and the production of histories and memories. Her current research projects address shifting meanings of the political; irregular migration; gender and regional gatekeeping constructs; and knowledge production in the social sciences. She is co-editor of Visual Productions of Knowledge: Toward a Different Middle East (American University in Cairo Press) and How to Read the Arab World? Alternative Perspectives from the Social Sciences (Al-Ain Publishing House) and has published articles in Africa, Journal of Historical Sociology, African Studies, Feminist Africa, and International Journal of African Historical Studies.
Lynn Schler is a Senior Lecturer of African history in the Department of Politics and Government and the Director of the Africa Centre at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her first book, The Strangers of New Bell: Immigration, Public Space and Community in Colonial Douala, Cameroon, 1914–1960 (UNISA, South Africa, 2008) examined the growth of an immigrant community in Douala under German and French colonial rule. Her current research is focused on Nigerian seamen in the transition from colonialism to independence, with research conducted in Nigeria and Liverpool.
Danelle van Zyl-Hermann is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She recently completed her PhD in history at the University of Cambridge, UK, focusing on white workers and the dismantling of racially privileged citizenship in South Africa. She has previously published on post-apartheid white nostalgia, as well as the emotional landscape of the occupied Cape of Good Hope around 1800. Her latest research brings an interest in issues of race, ethnicity, and class to an urban history of apartheid-era Pretoria.
Massimo Zaccaria is a Researcher in the African History and Institutions Program, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy. His research is primarily concerned with the history of the Horn of Africa in the colonial period, with a particular focus on Eritrea and Sudan. His monograph, Anch'io per la tua bandiera. Il V battaglione Ascari in missione sul fronte libico, was published in 2013 by Giorgio Pozzi Editore.
