Advisers and Contributors Editor in Chief Olutayo Charles Adesina, Ph.D., teaches at the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria He is the author of “The Underground Foreign Exchange Market in Ibadan during Devaluation,” in Money Struggles and City Life: Devaluation in Ibadan and Other Urban Centres in Southern Nigeria, 1986–96 (2002), and “Teaching History in Twentieth Century Nigeria: The Challenges of Change,” in History in Africa: A Journal of Method, vol 33 (2006) Pam J Crabtree Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Advisory Board Mario Azevedo Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Professor of History and Scholar-in-Residence Jackson State University Massoud Abdel Alim is a writer, editor, and trainer for Fortune 1000 companies He has an M.S and M.B.A and has written for many business and medical publications He has lived in the Arab world and is especially interested in Islamic history R Hunt Davis Professor Emeritus of History and African Studies University of Florida Mark W Allen, Ph.D., is associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona His most recent publications include coediting The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest (University Press of Florida, 2006) and “Hillforts and the Cycling of Maori Chiefdoms: Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?” in R Reycraft and J Railey (eds.), Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Society (University of New Mexico Press, 2007) Laura Lee Junker Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies University of Illinois at Chicago Eloise Quiñones Keber Professor of Art History Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York Miguel Arisa is finishing his doctoral studies in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York He teaches at Technical Career Institutes and is a regular lecturer at the Cloisters and a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York S M Ghazanfar Professor of Economics Emeritus University of Idaho Rose Aslan is a graduate student in Arab and Islamic civilizations at the American University in Cairo, Egypt Her research interests include Sufi hermeneutics, Qur’anic exegesis, and Islamic theology Contributors Charles W Abbott, Ph.D., is currently revising his dissertation on Nigerian hometown associations and ethnic unions toward a book His chapter “Nigerians in North America: New frontiers, old associations?” appears in the edited volume The New African Diaspora in North America (Lexington Books) Peri Bearman is associate director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School She founded the journal