Author: Arthur Mason

Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Arthur Mason is visiting faculty at Rice University and University of Tromsø. Michael Watts is Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coeditor of Violent Environments, also from Cornell, author most recently of Curse of the Black Gold, and coauthor of Afflicted Powers.