List of Contributors

PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY PGDT 9 (2010) 233-235 brill.nl/pgdt

Dwight Haase is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Toledo. As a Fulbright scholar and Tinker- Knave fellow, he has research microﬁnance in Central America and South Asia.

Jonathan Bauchet is a PhD candidate in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He also works with the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium of researchers at New York Univer- sity, Yale, Harvard, and Innovations for Poverty Action.

Jonathan Morduch is a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University and Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative. He is co-author of The Economics of Microﬁnance (MIT Press, Second edition, 2010).

Gwendolyn Alexander Tedeschi is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Business at Manhattan College. Her research interests include microﬁnance and economic development.

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. He is also the President of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and a research fellow with the M.I.T. Poverty Action Lab.

Elisabeth Vik is a PhD Research Fellow in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.

Britta Augsburg, PhD, is a Research Economist at the Centre for Evaluation of Development Policies at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK. Her work focuses on the eﬀect of microﬁnance interventions on its customers.

Cyril Fouillet is a Wiener-Anspach Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Devel- opment Studies at the University of Oxford School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies—Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme.

Sujata Shetty is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toledo. Her research interests include commu- nity and economic development planning, gender and planning, and international development.

Luciano Bonomo is contract Professor and Coordinator of the Masters in Microﬁnance at the University of Bergamo. He is also researcher at the Cen- tre on International Cooperation—research group on Finance and Develop- ment (FinDev)—at the University of Bergamo.

Michael Pisani is a Professor of International Business at Central Michigan University. His research interests include international business and development phenomena in Latin America with a speciﬁc focus on Central America and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

David Yoskowitz is the Harte Research Institute (HRI) Endowed Research Professor for Socio-Economics and Professor of Economics in the College of Business at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Heather Goldsworthy is a PhD Candidate in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine. She is also a research associate with the Center for Unconventional Security Aﬀairs, and an aﬃliate of the Depart- ment of Women’s Studies at UCI.

Soren Hauge is Chair of the Department of Economics at Ripon College. As a Fulbright scholar in Chile, he studied rural credit markets. Today his research interests also include ecological conservation.

Tricia Olsen is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Wis- consin-Madison where she is writing her dissertation on the political econ- omy of microﬁnance. As a Fulbright-Hays fellow, she has conducted extensive research in Brazil and Mexico.

Kaatje Segers is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research focuses primarily on farmers in the Horn of Africa.

Joost Dessein is a researcher with the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO), Social Sciences Unit, based in Belgium. He is also professor at Ghent University (Belgium), where he is teaching a course in rural sociology.