Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her research explores the literary and figurative aspects of Western philosophical and scientific discourse and investigates the engagement of literature and visual culture with the historical concerns, knowledge claims, and rhetoric of Western science and philosophy. Her first book, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (New York University Press, 2020) argues that key African American, African, and Caribbean literary and visual texts generate conceptions of being and materiality that creatively disrupt a human-animal distinction that persistently reproduces the racial logics and orders of Western thought.
Shatema Threadcraft
Shatema Threadcraft is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Philosophy, and Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Her first book, Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford, 2016) considers the troubled status of black female intimate life during four moments: antebellum slavery, Reconstruction, the nadir, and the civil rights and women's movement eras. It won numerous awards, including the 2017 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, and 2017’s Best Book in Race and Political Theory from the American Political Science Association’s Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section.
Hagar Kotef
Hagar Kotef is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory and Comparative Political Thought at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests are Political Theory, Feminist Theory and Gender Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Liberalism and its Critics, and Israel/Palestine. Her most recent book, The Colonizing Self, Or: Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Duke University Press, 2020), examines the construction of political belonging in settler colonies. It investigates how people develop attachment to space not despite violence, or by denying it, but rather through violence. Her previous book, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom charts the conceptual history of mobility and immobility in the writings of Locke, Hobbes, and Mill, as well as the sophisticated technologies of control that circumscribe the lives of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.
Briana McGinnis
Briana McGinnis is Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston, where her research centers on political theory and public law, with a special focus on citizenship and belonging. Her current work explores patterns of inclusion and exclusion in liberal democratic political communities touching on related issues including immigration, shared identity, and punishment. Her article, ‘Exile in America: Political Expulsion and the Limits of Liberal Citizenship’ in The Journal of Politics, analyses practices of expulsion as modes of boundary construction in the guise of punishment or harm prevention.
Dirk Moses
Dirk Moses is Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first book, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge, 2007), was awarded the H-Sozu-Kult prize for contemporary history, and he has published numerous edited collections on the subject of genocide and colonialism. The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Cambridge, 2021), investigates the origins and function of the concept of genocide, and how it organizes and distorts our thinking about civilian destruction. He is currently working on a book about traumatic memory and the constitution of genocidal subjectivities, “Genocide and the Terror of History.”
Anna terwiel
Anna Terwiel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College. Her research engages political theory, feminist theory, critical carceral studies, and medical humanities. In published articles, she examines feminist debates about sexual violence and the carceral state, proposes that prisoners exposed to extreme summer heat have a "right to comfort," and shifts interpretations of problematization from Foucault's work on ethics to his prison activism. Her book project, Beyond the Prison: The Politics of Abolition, theorizes contemporary US prison abolitionism as a reworking of revolutionary theories and practices from the 1960s and 70s. Prison abolition, she argues, offers political theorists and others a unique perspective on radical change in a postrevolutionary context.
