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  • Contributors

Ariella Azoulay is assistant professor of comparative literature and modern culture and media at Brown University. Her recent books include From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947–1950 (Pluto, 2011); Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012); The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone, 2008); and (co-authored with Adi Ophir) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River (Stanford, 2012). She is a curator and documentary filmmaker. Among her recent projects are the Leuven STUK exhibition Potential History (2012) and the film Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47–48 (2012).

Nandi Dill is a researcher, media producer, and independent scholar. She earned her doctorate in sociology from New York University. Her work explores people’s relationships to large-scale social institutions, such as prisons and the military, and she frequently uses media to inform her work.

Manuel Herz is a visiting professor of architectural design at the ETH Zurich and a practicing architect based in Basel, Switzerland. He researches and writes on planning aspects of refugee camps. His recent book From Camp to City: Refugee Camps of the Western Sahara (Lars Müller, 2012) is an urbanistic and architectural study of Sahrawi refugee camps established thirty-five years ago, focusing on the spaces of everyday activities and their political dimension. Where his architectural practice is concerned, his recent buildings include the Synagogue and Jewish Community Center of Mainz, Germany.

Ian Hunter is professor emeritus at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 2001) and The Secularisation of the Confessional State: The Political Thought of Christian Thomasius (Cambridge, 2007), along with numerous other studies in the history of early modern political, philosophical, and religious thought.

Linde Lindkvist is a doctoral candidate in human rights studies at Lund University, Sweden. His ongoing dissertation project concerns the codification of religious liberty in the early United Nations. Prior to his doctoral studies he was associated with the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He lectures in the interdisciplinary B.A. program in human rights studies at Lund University and has a special interest in the international history and politics of human rights.

Samuel Moyn is James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Columbia University and editor of Humanity. His most recent book is The Last Utopia: Human [End Page 501] Rights in History (Harvard, 2010), and a collection of his writings in The Nation is forthcoming, entitled Human Rights and the Uses of History.

Fred Ritchin is professor of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, as well as co-director of the photography and human rights program at New York University. He has written three books on the future of imaging: In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990); After Photography (W. W. Norton, 2008); and Bending the Frame: Photojournalism, Documentary, and the Citizen (Aperture, 2013). He is former picture editor of the New York Times Magazine and founding director of PixelPress, an organization that has collaborated with numerous humanitarian organizations on media projects.

Jennifer E. Telesca is a doctoral candidate at New York University, where she studies law and diplomacy in action. Her ethnography, Red Gold: On the Global Politics of Regulating Marine Life, opens the black box of global governance, taking the prized bluefin tuna as material to explain how oceans are governed, by whom, for whom, and according to what values and logics. A chapter in the edited volume, The New Public Good: Affects and Techniques of Flexible Bureaucracies (Berghahn, forthcoming) details some of her findings.

Richard Ashby Wilson holds the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights and is professor of anthropology and law at the University of Connecticut, and founding director of the Human Rights Institute. Focusing on truth commissions and international criminal tribunals, he has drawn upon anthropological and empirical approaches to understand the ways in which national and international legal institutions write historical accounts and pursue accountability. His latest monograph, Writing History in International Criminal Trials...

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