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  • Biographies

Paul Apostolidis teaches political theory and US politics at Whitman College, where he holds the T. Paul Chair of Political Science. He is the author of Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2010) and Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke University Press, 2000). Paul is co-editor of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke University Press, 2005). His current research explores neoliberal power relations via an analysis of work experiences and political organizing among migrant day laborers. Paul may be reached via his web site at http://www.whitman.edu/content/politics/faculty/paul-apostolidis

Kathleen R. Arnold is currently teaching political theory at DePaul University in Chicago. She is the author of Homelessness, Citizenship and Identity; America's New Working Class; and more recently, a forthcoming book on immigration entitled American Immigration After1996: The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion. She may be reached at karnol14@depaul.edu

Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair in Technology & Citizenship, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies, at McGill University. His current work concerns the possibilities of political judgment and action under technological conditions. He is the author of several books, including Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (University of Chicago Press, 2000). He may be reached at darin.barney@mcgill.ca.

Jason Frank is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (Duke, 2010) and Publius and Political Imagination (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming). He is currently editing A Political Companion to Herman Melville (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming) and beginning a new research project on the aesthetics of political authority. Jason maybe reached at jf273@cornell.edu

Vicki Hsueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Western Washington University. She is the author of Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America (Durham, NC, 2010) and several other articles. Her current research interests focus on conceptions of travel, intoxication, and sobriety in the history of political thought. She may be reached at Vicki.Hsueh@wwu.edu

Anatoli Ignatov is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His current research is focused on the intersection of politics, nature and ethics. His work has appeared in borderlands and Law, Culture and Humanities. Anatoli may be reached at anatoli@jhu.edu

Louie Palu is a documentary photographer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, festivals and international exhibitions. He is a fellow of the New America Foundation and has received numerous awards, including from the White House News Photographers Association, Society of Newspaper Design, and the Hearst Photography Biennial. Louie has also received the Hasselblad Master Award and the prestigious Alexia Foundation Photography Grant. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times Magazine, and the BBC. He has worked on assignment internationally, focusing on the war in Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay over the course of the last five years. Louie may be reached at www.louiepalu.com.

Torrey Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany. Her most recent article is "Feminine Figures and the 'Fatherhood': Rhetoric and Reason in Locke's First Treatise of Government" in Political Theory. She is completing a book manuscript on rhetoric, experience, and political critique in the thought of John Locke. She may be reached at TShanks@uamail.albany.edu

Jacqueline Stevens is a Professor at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals (Columbia University, 2011, paperback). For more information, please see http://www.jacquelinestevens.org

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei is Lecturer of Art Theory at the Royal Art Academy in The Hague and Lecturer of Philosophy at the University of New York in Tirana. His current research topics include the different inclinations of the concept of falling in the history of...

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