Contributors
- Contributors
Khaled Barakeh is a painter and visual artist working in various media. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, Syria, and holds an MFA from Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark. His conceptual art practices focus on politics and power structures in the context of identity, culture, and history. He has exhibited at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Shanghai Biennale, Salt Istanbul, and elsewhere.
Simone Browne is an associate professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches surveillance studies and black diaspora studies. Her first book, Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (Duke University Press, 2015), examines surveillance with a focus on transatlantic slavery, biometric technologies, branding, airports, and creative texts.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is the chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute and director of Global South Center. She is the author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (University of California Press, 2009), and the forthcoming Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (University of California Press, 2018).
Jack Halberstam is a professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies and English and comparative literature at Columbia University and a co-convener of the Decolonizing Media Collective. He is the author of five books, including Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke University Press, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke University Press, 1998), and The Queer Art of Failure (Duke University Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and collections.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is professor of American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press, 2008), Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press, 2018).
Nicholas Mirzoeff is a professor in the Media, Culture, and Communication Department at New York University and a co-convener of the Decolonizing Media Collective. His e-book The Appearance of Black Lives Matter is available for free download at namepublications.org.
Negar Mottahedeh is a professor of media studies in the Program in Literature at Duke University. Her research on film, social media, and social movements in the Middle East has been published by Stanford University Press, Syracuse University Press, and Duke University Press. She has written articles for Wired's Backchannel platform, The Hill, and The Observer. [End Page 151]
Julie Reid teaches in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is an activist for media and press freedom, as well as a working member of the Right2Know campaign, and she sits on the campaign's Media Freedom and Diversity Subcommittee. She is a former president of the South African Communications Association and editor of Looking at Media: An Introduction to Visual Studies (Pearson, 2013). [End Page 152]
