Bios
- Bios
Jason Adams is a PhD Candidate at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa and is currently writing The Sense of Belonging, a genealogy of the modern citizen-subject as constructed through the postwar American sensory-memory schemata of sight, sound and smell. His writings have appeared in the journals Borderlands, New Political Science, CTheory and Philosophy and Scripture.
Ali Aslam is a PhD candidate at Duke University. His dissertation, Architecture and Politics: Building the Good Life, examines how architecture has shaped durable political and ethical identities and practices over time by engaging the works of architects Antoine Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and Aldo van Eyck, and a selection of political thinkers including Aristotle, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He can be reached at aa68@duke.edu.
Wendy Brown is Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley where she is also affiliated with the graduate programs in Critical Theory and in Women, Gender and Sexuality. Her most recent books are Regulating Aversion (2006) and Edgework (2005). She is currently working on a book on Marx's critique of religion and a book on contemporary nation-state walling considered through the theoretical problematic of sovereignty.
Paul J. Carnegie teaches political thought in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is currently completing a manuscript entitled Democratization and Ambiguity: Lessons From Indonesia. He can be reached at p.carnegie@uq.edu.au
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he teaches political theory. His recent books include Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed; Pluralism; and Capitalism and Christianity, American Style. He is working on a book to be entitled A World of Becoming, which brings the idea of time as becoming to a series of recent and contemporary thinkers and explores its implications for understanding complexity theory, the human predicament, and global capital.
Jodi Dean is a Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. She is the author, most recently, of Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (Duke University Press, 2009).
Thomas L. Dumm teaches political science at Amherst College. His most recent book is A Politics of the Ordinary (Harvard University Press, 2008). He was a founding editor of Theory & Event.
Kathy E. Ferguson is professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Hawai'i. She recently published a co-edited volume with Monique Mironesco entitled Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008) and with Phyllis Turnbull she researches and writes about militarism. She is writing a book about Emma Goldman. She can be reached at kferguso@hawaii.edu.
J. Maggio is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida in political theory. He is interested in the intersection of political theory, aesthetics, and cultural theory. A member of the Florida Bar Association, J. Maggio is currently completing his dissertation, tentatively entitled In Good Form: An Examination of the Political Dimension of the Formal Qualities of Art and Aesthetics. He can be reached at jmaggio@ufl.edu
Glen McGillivray lectures in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney and in Performance Studies at Sydney University. He is currently editing a collection that explores the 'hidden archive' of performance, and that examines the cultural implications of institutional forgetting of artists, genres of performance and companies. He can be reached at g.mgillivray@uws.edu.au
Emin Özgür Özakin is a part-time instructor teaching architectural theory and criticism in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Enviromental Design, at the Baskent University (Turkey). He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Bilkent University, Faculty of Art Design and Architecture and working on a thesis about Kristeva's concept of abjection and architecture. He can be reached at emino@bilkent.edu.tr
Bruce Rosenstock is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Illinois. His book, Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond, will appear in 2009 with Fordham University Press. He is currently at work on a study of the theory of perception...
