Author Bios

Steve Striffler is the Doris Zemurray Stone chair of Latin American studies and professor of anthropology and geography at the University of New Orleans.

Michael Busch, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor, teaches international relations at the City College of New York and serves as research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for …

Ahmed Afzaal, Ph.D., holds his doctorate in Religion and Society from Drew University, and is an assistant professor of Comparative Religion at Concordia College. Dr. Afzaal was born in Pakistan, where …

Justin Norman is a web graphic designer for Shrieking Tree and a writer at Hi-Fructose Magazine. Photographs from the vigils discussed in this article can be found on Flickr.