Citizenship: WSQ: Spring/ Summer 2010

The concept of nationalism conjures up feelings of belonging and allegiance, togetherness and protective boundaries, but what of alienation and xenophobia, immigration and asylum? How do we gauge social and political conflict in an age of national and transnational allegiances and identities? Just what is nationalism? This special issue of WSQ questions what it means to be a citizen in a world haunted by terrorism, racial tension, and gender and class exclusion.

Terri Gordon-Zolov is an assistant professor at The New School and has also taught at Columbia and Barnard College. She received her PhD from Columbia University. She has published on the cabaret, postwar film, and performance art in the Third Reich. Her translation of Jean Genet's Elle was adapted for an off-Broadway production.

Robin Rogers is an associate professor at CUNY's Queens College and the Graduate Center. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholar at Yale University, and served as a Congressional Fellow on Women and Public Policy. She is the author of The Welfare Experiments.