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Advisers and Contributors

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Peter Bogucki
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Aff airs,
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University

ADVISORY BOARD

Lisa R. Brody
Assistant Professor of Art
Queens College, City University of New York

R. Hunt Davis
Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies
University of Florida

Leo Depuydt
Associate Professor of Egyptology
Brown University

Paul R. Goldin
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations
University of Pennsylvania

Eloise Quiñones Keber
Professor of Art History
Baruch College, City University of New York

Amelie Kuhrt
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History
University College, London

Daniel Potts
Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of
Middle Eastern Archaeology
University of Sydney

CONTRIBUTORS

Saheed Aderinto is a Ph.D. student at the Department of His-

tory, University of Texas at Austin. Some of his most recent

publications include “Prostitution and Urban Social Rela-

tions” and “Policing Urban Prostitution: Prostitutes, Crime,

Law and Reformers in Colonial Nigeria” in Nigeria’s Urban

History: Past and Present (2006) and “Discrimination in an

Urban Setting: Th e Experience of Ijebu Settlers in Colonial

Ibadan, 1893–1960” in Inter-group Relations in Nigeria dur-

ing the 19th & 20th Centuries (2006). His writings have also

appeared in IFRA Special Research Issue, Ethnic and Th ird

Worl d Re v ie w of Book s , African and Asian Studies Journal,

and Th e Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (2006).

Olutayo Charles Adesina, Ph.D., teaches at the Department

of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is the author of

“Th e Underground Foreign Exchange Market in Ibadan du-

ring Devaluation” in Money Struggles and City Life: Devalua-

tion in Ibadan and Other Urban Centres in Southern Nigeria,

1986–96 (2002) and “Teaching History in Twentieth Century

Nigeria: Th e Challenges of Change” in History in Africa: A

Journal of Method, vol. 33 (2006).

David Otieno Akombo, Ph.D., teaches music education and

world music at Wabash College of Indiana. He is the author

of Music and Healing across Cultures (2006).

Francis Allard, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Anthro-

pology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His research in-

terests include the archaeology of early China and Mongolia.

He has contributed articles to Archaeology of Asia (2005) and

Beyond the Steppe and the Sown: Proceedings of the 2002 Uni-

versity of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology (2006).

Miguel Arisa is fi nishing his doctoral studies in art history at

the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He teaches

at Technical Career Institutes and is a regular lecturer at the