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Gretchen E. Schafft is an applied anthropologist in residence at American
University in Washington, D.C., where she teaches perhaps the first Holocaust
class in an anthropology department. She has been a leader in the development
of practicing anthropology, founding member and second president of the
Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists. Schafft is active in contract
research for government agencies, evaluating programs in the areas of
health, education, and social welfare.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California,
Berkeley, where she also directs the doctoral program in critical studies of medicine,
science, and the body. Her many publications include Saints, Scholars and
Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland, which received the Margaret Mead
Award, and Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil, which received
several awards including the international Pitre Prize and the Welcome
Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. She is currently writing two
books, one entitled Who’s the Killer? Violence and Democracy in the New South Africa,
and the other entitled The Ends of the Body: The Global Traffic in Organs.
Toni Shapiro-Phim is a research associate with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
at the University of California, Berkeley. She is completing a manuscript on
the relationship between war and dance in late-twentieth-century Cambodia and
has been working with artists at Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts on
documentation of their dance technique. Coauthor of Dance in Cambodia (Oxford
1999), Shapiro-Phim has written numerous articles on the cultural context of
Cambodian performing arts.
Christopher C. Taylor is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. He is primarily a specialist in symbolic and medical anthropology
and has done fieldwork in Rwanda, Kenya, and the Ivory Coast. He
also worked in applied medical anthropology on the sociocultural and behavioral
aspects of HIV transmission. At the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, he
was employed by Family Health International under the auspices of the United
States Agency for International Development.
Samuel Totten is professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville. He is the compiler/editor of First Person Accounts of Genocidal
Acts Committed in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood 1991), coeditor of Century of
Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views (Garland 1997), associate editor of
Encyclopedia of Genocide (ABC-CLIO 1999). He is currently completing two books:
Pioneers of Genocide Studies (Transaction Publishers, forthcoming) and The Intervention
and Prevention of Genocide: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, forthcoming).