To Be a Butterfly on the Wall of This Mansion …: In Place of a Response

Michael Ralph, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Michael’s scholarship centers on race, disability, risk, injury, liability, citizenship and sovereignty in Dakar, Senegal, and New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Michael has published in Disability Studies Quarterly, Souls, Social Text, Public Culture, South Atlantic Quarterly, Journal of the History of Sport, and Transforming Anthropology. He is a member of the Souls Editorial Working Group, the Social Text Editorial Collective and the Editorial Boards of Sport in Society and Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. Michael is also the Editor of Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists.
Correspondence should be addressed to Michael Ralph, Ph.D., Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003. E-mail: