Leti Volpp
Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley. My profound thanks to Audrey Macklin and Guy Mundlak for inviting me to participate in the Why Citizenship? workshop and this symposium issue. Generous support for the writing of this article was provided by the MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Security and Sustainability in the form of an Individual Research and Writing Grant. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School, the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics, the Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the American University of Cairo, the Citizenship and Cultural Difference symposium at Rutgers University, Rockefeller Foundation Conferences at UC Riverside and UC San Diego, the Cultural Studies Program at Sabanci University, the Pembroke Center’s Roundtable on Gender and the Politics of "Traditional" Muslim Practices, the Center for Law, Culture and History at USC Law School, the Association of American Studies, the Association of Asian American Studies, the Annual Meeting of Law and Society, and faculty workshops at the University of Melbourne School of Law, the Monash University School of Law, the University of Toronto School of Law, UCLA Law School, and the Boalt Hall School of Law. I received extremely helpful comments at each site; special thanks to Kathryn Abrams, Muneer Ahmad, Linda Bosniak, Devon Carbado, Gina Dent, Mary Dudziak, David Eng, Katherine Franke, Ariela Gross, Lisa Hajjar, Cheryl Harris, Ratna Kapur, Karen Knop, Ian Haney Lo´ pez, Dicle Kogacioglu, Lisa Lowe, Donald Moore, Jennifer Nedelsky, Mae Ngai, Richard Perry, Anne Phillips, Denise Reaume, Russell Robinson, Teemu Ruskola, Kim Rubenstein, Joan Scott, Howard Shelanski, Nomi Stolzenberg, Kendall Thomas, and Sophie Volpp. My thanks as well to Julian Park, Harini Raghupathi, and Emily White for their research assistance.