Amahl Bishara, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University

Amahl Bishara is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. Her research concerns media as knowledge production, space and political experience, and freedom of speech and protest, especially in Palestinian contexts. During the spring and summer of 2011, she began research on relationships between Palestinians inside Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank as they are constituted by media, political activism, and commercial exchange, especially of food. In addition to this research, she is completing an ethnography about the production of U.S. news about Palestinians during the second Intifada, with special attention to the role that Palestinian journalists play in producing U.S. news and the ways that U.S. news affects Palestinian politics.
 

Radiclani Clytus, Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University

Radiclani Clytus holds a Joint PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century (African) American literature and visual culture, history of the book studies, and literary theory. He has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, the New-York Historical Society, and the Library Company of Philadelphia. He is the editor of Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (University of Michigan, 2000), a compilation of prose works by Yusef Komunyakaa, and is the author of articles on nineteenth-century circum-Atlantic visual culture. His forthcoming book, "Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual," examines the ocularcentric roots of American anti-slavery rhetoric.
 

David Ekbladh, Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University

David Ekbladh is currently an assistant professor of history at Tufts. While at CHAT he plans to continue work on a pair of projects. The first, tentatively entitled, In League With America: The Techniques of Liberal Internationalism, explores how groups in the United States collaborated with the technical arms of the League of Nations to produce influential analyses of global forces. These, in turn, had considerable impact on American views of critical international issues. This is related to a larger project entitled, Look at the World: The Birth of an American Globalism in the 1930s, that explores the wide-ranging changes in how the United States perceived and engaged the world. His first book, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (Princeton, 2010), won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society of American Historians as well as the Phi Alpha Theta Best First Book Award. Articles of his have appeared in Diplomatic History, The International History Review, International Security, World Affairs, and the Wilson Quarterly. Among other awards, he has been a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, International Security Studies at Yale University, and the Belfer Center at Harvard University.