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Jeremy Arnold is a Senior Lecturer in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. His completed book manuscript, State Violence and Moral Horror, is currently under review, and he is near completion on a new book titled Across the Great Divide: Continental and Analytic Political Theory. Jeremy can be reached at uspjsa@nus.edu.sg

Çiğdem Çıdam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Union College, NY. Her research interests lie at the intersection of democratic theory, contemporary continental theory (Frankfurt School, Italian Marxism) and ancient political thought. Her article, “A Politics of Love? Antonio Negri on Revolution and Democracy,” was published in Contemporary Political Theory in 2013. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Constituting Democracy: Political Friendship and the Potentialities of Action,” which, drawing on Aristotle’s conception of political friendship, offers a novel understanding of popular action that challenges the leading accounts of democratic action in concert. Çiğdem can be reached at cidamc@union.edu

Douglas C. Dow is Associate Dean of the Honors College and Clinical Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. In an interdisciplinary environment, he teaches political theory, constitutional law, ethics in science and technology, and film and politics. His research explores questions of liberalism, theories of rights, and conflicts over historical representation. He has also written on the politics of conceptual change and the methodologies of conceptual history. Doug can be reached at dougdow@utdallas.edu

Stephen Engelmann is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches political theory. His research interests are in early modern and modern English and British thought, the history of the human sciences, and contemporary theory. Recent work includes “Queer Utilitarianism: Bentham and Malthus on the Threshold of Biopolitics” (Theory & Event, 17:4), and he is completing a book manuscript titled Skeptical Engineers: Evolution, Character, and the Pursuit of Social Science. Stephen can be reached by email at sengelma@uic.edu

Brad Evans is a senior lecturer in international relations at the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, UK. He is the founder and director of the histories of violence project. In this capacity, he is currently leading a global research initiative on the theme of “Disposable Life” to interrogate the meaning of mass violence in the 21st century. Brad’s latest books include Disposable Futures: Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (with Henry Giroux, City Lights: 2015); Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (with Julian Reid, Polity Press, 2014), Liberal Terror (Polity Press, 2013); and Deleuze & Fascism (with Julian Reid, Routledge, 2013). Brad can be reached at be12174@bristol.ac.uk

Jason Frank is professor of government at Cornell University. He is the author of Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (Duke UP, 2010), Publius and Political Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and the editor of A Political Companion to Herman Melville (Kentucky UP, 2013). He has published widely on democratic theory, American political thought, politics and literature, and political aesthetics. His current project explores the aesthetics of popular sovereignty and is titled The Democratic Sublime: Political Theory and Aesthetics in the Age of Revolution. Jason can be reached at jf273@cornell.edu

Samantha Frost is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois. Her research centers on the ways that our conceptions of matter, materiality, and embodiment shape our understanding of subjectivity and politics. Her most recent book, Biocultural Creatures: Toward A New Theory of the Human, is forthcoming (2016) with Duke University Press. Samantha can be reached at frost@illinois.edu

Shane Herron is Assistant Professor of English at Furman University, where he teaches eighteenth-century British literature. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Studies in English Literature and Eighteenth-Century Fiction. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Ludicrous Solemnity: Jonathan Swift and the Novel, which examines the convergences between Swift’s conservative satire and the more progressive early novel. Shane can be reached at Shane.Herron@Furman.edu

Murad Idris is an Assistant Professor in the...

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