Bios
- Bios
Elizabeth S. Anker is an assistant professor in the English Department at Cornell University. She has also published in Modern Fiction Studies and the James Joyce Quarterly and is currently completing a book on human rights and the postcolonial novel. She can be reached at esa52@cornell.edu.
Paul Apostolidis is the Judge & Mrs. Timothy A. Paul Professor of Political Science at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where he teaches political theory, cultural studies, and Latino politics. He is currently completing a book manuscript provisionally titled Breaks in the Chain: Immigrant Workers’ Stories of Power in Late Modern America. He is the author of Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio (Duke UP 2000) and co-editor of Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Duke UP 2004), along with a variety of articles. He can be reached atapostopc@whitman.edu.
Michael Brownstein is an advanced graduate student in the department of philosophy at Penn State University. He is currently completing a dissertation which shows how explanatory, normative and pragmatic accounts of social action benefit from studying the mindless but intelligent practical coping skills of ordinary social actors. In addition to topics in 20thcentury continental philosophy and the philosophy of social science, he has written on the relationship between media technologies and society, in particular the internet and its contribution to changing conceptions of the public sphere. He can be reached atmsb277@psu.edu.
Roberto Farneti is an assistant professor of Politics at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, in northern Italy, where he teaches courses in political theory and comparative politics. He is author of numerous articles and chapters on a variety of topics in political theory. He is also the author of the book Il Canone Moderno: Filosofia Politica e Genealogia (Turin: 2002). He can be reached atroberto.farneti@unibz.it
Laura Grattan is a PhD candidate at Duke University. Her dissertation, Harboring America: Imagining Democracy, Containing Imagination, analyzes the cultural spaces, institutions, habits, practices, and dynamics of democratic imagination in the United States through engagements with populist, immigrant, and nationalist social movement traditions. She can be reached atlkg2@duke.edu.
Vincent Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and race. He is the author of Law and Transcendence: On the Unfinished Project of Gillian Rose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and he is current co-edited a collection of essays on political theology and race.
Iain MacKenzie is a lecturer in political philosophy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. He is the author of Politics: Key Concepts in Philosophy (London, Continuum, forthcoming) and The Idea of Pure Critique (London, Continuum, 2004). He can be contacted by email ati.mackenzie@kent.ac.uk.
Jeanne Morefield is an Associate Professor of Politics and Garrett Fellow at Whitman College. She is the author of Covenants Without Swords: Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire (Princeton University Press, 2005). Her recent work includes “‘An Education Greece’: The Round Table, Imperial Theory, and the Uses of History,” History of Political Thought, 28 (Summer 2007), and “‘The Habits of Imperialism’: Harold Laski on Sovereignty and Empire” (forthcoming in British Academy, Lineages of Empire, 2009.) She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Politics in the Passive: Imperial Amnesia and Pluralist Responses in the Long Twentieth Century.
Gonzalo Portocarrero Maisch is Professor at the Social Sciences Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He holds a Ph. D. degree from the University of Essex, England. He has published extensively on the field of culture and power. He has been visiting professor in USA, Europe, Japan and Latin America.
Lars Tønder is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. He is the co-editor of Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack (2006), and is currently working on a book manuscript that rethinks tolerance in light of thinkers such as Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. He can be reached at:l-toender@northwestern.edu.
Geoffrey Whitehall’s areas of teaching and research at Acadia University include critical international politics...
