Participants

Faculty Coordinators:

Jo Ellen Fair (Professor, Journalism & Mass Communications) jefair@wisc.edu
Leigh Payne (Professor, Political Science) lpayne@polisci.wisc.edu,
Neil Whitehead (Professor, Anthropology) nlwhiteh@facstaff.wisc.edu

Jo Ellen Fair's current work examines reporting on national reconciliation in Ghana, where she has also conducted training workshops with journalists. She is editor of African Issues and teaches courses on international communication, media in developing countries, and global cultures at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.

Leigh Payne is currently writing a book, entitled Unsettling Accounts, on the political impact of confessions made by perpetrators of state violence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, and in the War Crimes Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia. She teaches courses on Latin American politics and democratic theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Neil Whitehead is a Professor of Anthropology & Religious Studies. His recent major works include, War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (SAR 1999), Dark Shamans; Kanaima and the Poetics of Violent Death (Duke 2002), In Darkness & Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (Duke 2004) and Violence: Poetics, Performance, Expression (SAR 2005)."

Links
- Kanaima as Unintended Consequence
- Learning to Love Cannibals
- Bio warfare