CONTRIBUTORSpleting a book entitledDancing Jacobins: A Genealogy of Latin American Populism (Vene-
zuela)and a project entitled ‘‘The Fate of Sovereignty in the Landscape of the City.’’
Matthew Schereris currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Rheto-
ric at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches courses in political theory and is
preparing his dissertation, ‘‘The Politics of Persuasion: Habit, Creativity, Conversion,’’
for publication.
Bhrigupati Singhis currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at The
Johns Hopkins University. His current research project concerns starvation deaths and
poverty in rural Rajasthan.
Lawrence E. Sullivanis Professor of World Religions in the Departments of Theology
and Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, after serving for many years as the
Director of Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions. HisIcanchu’s
Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religionswon the 1989 Association
of American Publishers award for best book in philosophy and religion and a 1990 best
book award from the American Council of Learned Societies. He is associate editor of the
sixteen-volumeEncyclopedia of Religionand a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He has served as President of the American Academy of Religion and deputy
Secretary-General of the International Association for the History of Religions.
Anto ́nia Szabariis Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the Uni-
versity of Southern California. She is currently completing a book entitledLess Rightly
Said: Scandalous Words in the French Reformation.
Lars Tønderis Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at DePauw
University. He is the co-editor ofRadical Democracy: Politics Between Abundance and Lack
(2005), and his current research focuses on questions of tolerance and toleration.
Markha G. Valentais an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at the Free University
of Amsterdam. Her current project concerns the socio-cultural, imaginary, and institu-
tional politics of Islam and Muslims in the West relative to larger processes of localization,
globalization, and nation-state formation, in particular, through a close comparative read-
ing of recent debates and events in the United States and the Netherlands.
Peter van der Veeris University Professor at Utrecht University. He is also a Senior
Fellow and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the India-China Institute of the New
School in New York. He has published widely on religion and society, includingImperial
Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain(2001),Religious Nationalism:
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