FETHI BENSLAMA

Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst and Maître des Conférences at the Université de Paris – VII.  Dr. Benslama is the founding editor of Intersignes, a French-language journal of psychoanalysis and culture, and he is the author of a number of books on psychoanalysis and Islam, most recently La psychanalyse à l’épreuve de l’Islam (Paris: Aubier, 2002).

Email: benslama.intersignes@wanadoo.fr

ALICE BULLARD

Alice Bullard is Associate Professor of History at Georgia Tech University. A scholar of the intellectual culture of French colonialism, Professor Bullard is currently researching the histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in French West Africa. She is the author of Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900. (Stanford University Press, 2000), and has recently published two articles on the emergence of transcultural psychiatry, “L'Oedipe Africain: A Retrospective” and “The Critical Impact of Franz Fanon and Henri Collomb; Race, Gender and Personality Testing of North and West Africans.”

Email: alice.bullard@hts.gatech.edu

JOHN CASH

John Cash is currently teaching at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are in the fields of social and political theory, psychoanalytic studies, the politics of identity and the analysis of contemporary subjectivities. He has a particular interest in the study of conflict in Northern Ireland and other divided societies. His publications include Identity, Ideology and Conflict: the structuration of politics in Northern Ireland (1996) and a series of articles which draw critically on contemporary social and psychoanalytic theory in an attempt to develop novel approaches to the study of entrenched ethnic conflict.

Email: johndc@unimelb.edu.au

JOY DAMOUSI

Joy Damousi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. The author of numerous books and articles on gender and sexuality in Australia, she has most recently completed Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, forthcoming from the University of New South Wales Press.

Email: j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au

DIDIER FASSIN

Didier Fassin is an anthropologist, sociologist, and medical doctor. Currently Directeur de Recherches en anthropologie et sociologies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, his teaching and research interests include the social dimensions of medicine and public health, with a particular interest in the politics of ethnopsychiatry in postcolonial France.

Email: dfassin@ehess.fr

CHRISTIANE HARTNACK

Christiane Hartnack is Deputy Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at the Donau Universitat Krems in Austria. A clinical psychologist by training, she has published widely on the history of psychoanalysis in India, most recently in her book, Psychoanalysis in Colonial India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Email: christiane.hartnack@donau-uni.ac.at

DEBORAH JENSON

Deborah Jenson is Associate Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works in the field(s) of nineteenth-century French and Caribbean studies and is currently completing a manuscript on France and the Haitian Revolution. Publications include Trauma and Its Representations (Johns Hopkins, 2001) and numerous articles on subjects including colonial mimesis, early Creole poetry, and bovarysm. She edited the current issue of Yale French Studies, "The Haiti Issue: 1804 and Nineteenth-Century French Studies.

Email: djenson@wisc.edu

SHRUTI KAPILA

Shruti Kapila is Assistant Professor of History at Tufts University and a scholar of
the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in colonial India. She has recently
published a book chapter, 'Freud and his Indian friends: Religion,
Psychoanalysis and Selfhood in late Colonial India,' in Meghan Vaughan and
Sloan Mahone (eds.) Psychiatry and Empire (Palgrave, London, 2006), and is
currently completing a book manuscript entitled, Governments of the Mind:
Psycho-Sciences and Personhood in Colonial India.

Email: Shruti.Kapila@tufts.edu

RANJANA KHANNA

Ranjana Khanna is Associate Professor in English, The Program in Literature, and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of *Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism* (Duke University Press, 2003) and *Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation 1830 to the Present* (Forthcoming, Stanford University Press), and articles related to postcoloniality, feminism, and psychoanalysis.

Email: rkhanna@duke.edu

ACHILLE MBEMBE

Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he is also a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER). He has published extensively in both French and English on the postcolonial predicament.

Email: mbembea@wiser.wits.ac.za

ASHIS NANDY

Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist and sociologist of science who has worked on cultures of knowledge, visions, and dialogue with civilizations. At present he is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies and Chairperson of the Committee for Cultural Choices and Global Futures, both located in Delhi. He is the author of The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Oxford, 1983) and The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves (Princeton, 1995).

Email: ashisnandy@hotmail.com

MARIANO PLOTKIN

Mariano Plotkin is researcher at the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and professor at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. He was visiting professor at Harvard University and at the Universidad de Salamanca. He is the author of Manana es San Peron. A CUltural History of Peron's ARgentina (Scholarly Resources, 2003), and of Freud in the Pampas (Stanford UP, 2001).

Email: mplotkin@ides.org.ar

HANS POLS

Hans Pols is lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney (as well as its director). A scholar of the history of psychiatry and psychology, the history of medicine, and the history of human sciences, Pols is currently at work on a study of Dutch colonial psychiatry in the East Indies. His book Psychiatric Utopias: Masterminding American Mental Hygiene, 1910-1950 is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Email: h.pols@science.usyd.edu.au

ELIZABETH ROUDINESCO

Elisabeth Roudinesco, a practicing psychoanalyst and historian, has taught at the Université de Paris-VII and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Among numerous other books and dozens of articles, she is the author of Jacques Lacan: A Life and La bataille de cent ans: Histoire de la psychanalyse en France.

Address: 89, rue Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris

Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès is a lecturer at the Center for Cultural Studies, Goldsmith’s College, University of London. She has published extensively both in French and English on political history and postcolonial discourse. The author of Monsters and Revolutionaries (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999), she also collaborated with Issac Julien on a film about Frantz Fanon in 1997.

Email: vergesf@free.fr