Hsain Ilahiane is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Iowa State University and assumed a year-long Visiting Faculty appointment with PaPR between 2006-07. Hsain's research focuses on natural and cultural resource management, ethnicity and social mobility, agrarian change, the informal sector, and information and communications technologies. Recently, he has investigated the uses of mobile technologies in social and economic development. He has conducted fieldwork in Morocco, Uganda, Kenya, and in the southwestern United States (among the Tohono O'odham, the Hopis, the Paiute, and the Colorado River Indians). Hsain's work has appeared in numerous journals including American Anthropologist and Africa Today. His ethnography on the Ziz Oasis, Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: the Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis, was published in 2004. His second book, The Historical Dictionary of the Berbers, is in press.