Robert Courtney Smith is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies, and Public Affairs at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His work seeks to increase our understanding of contemporary migration, and to identify strategic sites of intervention for policy. He has worked in the
Jonathan H. Shannon is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College, and a member of the doctoral faculties in Music and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Stanford University in 1988 and the Ph.D. in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center in
In the concluding words of my recent book, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, I say, “ This is how I see the public role of anthropology: acting on the double register in which we offer evidence that contests the official amnesia and systematic acts of making evidence disappear, but also
Barbara Landau is the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and held faculty positions at Columbia University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Delaware before she moved to Johns Hopkins in 2001, where she
Barbara Wolfe is Professor of Economics, Population Health Sciences, and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. Her research focuses broadly on poverty and health issues. Current projects examine the effect of expansions in public health insurance on health-care coverage and labor force outcomes;
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