Scott M. Youngstedt earned his Ph. D. in Anthropology at UCLA in 1993 and is currently Professor of Anthropology at Saginaw Valley State University. His ethnographic research in Niger over the past 24 years is primarily concerned with exploring the ways by which migrant Hausa construct communities in diaspora create modernities and negotiate personal identities in the context of neoliberal globalization. His work has been published in Africa Insight African Studies Quarterly African Studies Review and City and Society among other places. Youngstedt currently serves as Vice President of the West African Research Association and is in line to become its President in November 2012. Language: English