<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear colleagues,<br><br></div>Welcome to the <a href="mailto:state@lists.wiser.org.za">state@lists.wiser.org.za</a>, which I hope will serve as a virtual centre of excellence on the study of our state (and its peers). This is something that, I think, engages a very large number of academics at Wits, and it produces very important research. And these are, to put it mildly, interesting times if you're interested in the state. <br><br>After talking to several people I think it would be useful to ask each of you to introduce yourselves with the idea in mind that we assemble these biographical descriptions on a single web page. It would be useful, also, to have a list of the state-related research projects that you are involved with; these can be placed on another page. <br><br></div>So, please, respond to this email by introducing yourself in one paragraph, including links where that's possible to your work, and another that describes your research projects.<br><br></div>Many thanks, k<br><div><div><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">-------<br>Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 |<font size="2"> Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | </font></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Web</span>: <font size="2"><a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za |</a> <a href="http://goo.gl/nJKK5N" target="_blank"><i>Biometric State</i>, CUP, Sept 2014</a> | Co - Editor, <a href="http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFH" target="_blank">Journal of African History</a>.<br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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