About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Paul Amar is a professor in the Global Studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Cairo Cosmopolitan: Politics, Culture and Urban Space in the New Middle East (2006), New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law- Enforcement Politic (2010), Global South to the Rescue: Emerging Humanitarian Superpowers and Globalizing Rescue Industries (2011), Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Middle East (2013), and The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global South (2014). His book The Security Archipelago: Human- Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism was awarded the Charles Taylor Book Award for the best political science book in 2014 by the Interpretive Methods Section of the American Political Science Association.
Julian Gill-Peterson is assistant professor of English and children’s literature at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently at work on a book on the transgender child across the twentieth century. His work has also appeared in Women and Performance (2015), WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly (2015), Transgender Studies Quarterly (2014), and GLQ (2013).
Clifford Rosky is professor of law at the University of Utah. He is a two- time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity published in the previous year. His research on childhood, queerness, and the LGBT movement has been published in numerous law reviews and anthologies, including the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, the Cardozo Law Review, the Journal of Sex Research, and After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights (2016).
Kyla Schuller is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she teaches and researches the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and the sciences. Her first book, The Biopolitics of Feeling, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in American Quarterly, Discourse, Journal of Modern Literature, and other venues.
Rebekah Sheldon is assistant professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrope, which is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in 2016. Her essays on feminist science fiction, feminist science studies, and queer theories of the child [End Page 649] have appeared in Science Fiction Studies and Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology as well as in the edited collections The Nonhuman Turn and The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction.
Kathryn Bond Stockton is distinguished professor of English and associate vice president for equity and diversity at the University of Utah. Her most recent books, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (2006) and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (2009), are published by Duke University Press and both were finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.
Mary Zaborskis is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation examines the management of childhood sexuality in North American boarding schools established for marginalized populations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work has appeared in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Homosexuality, and Public Books. [End Page 650]
